Asia Pacific Arts

[Anonymous]

This is my review of the article "Before the Flood" in the most recent Asia Pacific Arts issue.

I find it disturbing that 1.1 to 1.9 million people will have to find new homes due to the building of this dam. I know that this type of thing happens everywhere, but the fact that these people must just "give up" their homes for the sake of industry is appalling. I can picture the officials going in to the villages and gruffly demanding that everyone must relocate in harsh, unsympathetic tones. And the fact that the filmmakers spent so much time in the village of Fengjie, but failed to give adequate coverage of the villagers grief makes the documentary nothing more than a half-hearted attempt at uncovering the truth behind this tragedy. Why make a documentary if the most important piece- the people of Fengjie- is to be neglected??

[Anonymous]

The Palm Springs Film Festival Review Article was of interest to me since I have spent quite a bit of time in Palm Springs. I did attend the film festival one year and really enjoyed it. It has gotten harder and harder to get tickets to this event, so I haven't been in a number of years (I would have loved to have seen some of the movies spoken about in the article). I can't really comment on their reviews as I haven't seen the movies. I did think the first writer was being rather harsh concerning the audience in Palm Springs. I think it's great that there's a festival where "real people" can see these movies. I would think the film makers would be interested in their reactions as well; instead of just hearing from the same people that they see at every other festival. Many times these "elite" may well have political reasons for their reviews, or be so far out of the mainstream that they may be really "off the mark".

[Anonymous]

The reason I'm posting is because the Paml Springs Film Festival seemed very interesting to me, since I have spent quite a bit of time in Palm Springs over the years, but never attended the festival. It seems like it's grown so much in popularity, it was actually hard to get tickets! I can't really comment on the reviewing of movies, since I didn't see any, but overall, I think it was a fun experience. The critics were pretty harsh, and kind of out there, but everything went over well, and was fun!

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