DANIEL DAY-LEWIS RETROSPECTIVE
As one of Britain's most acclaimed actors, Daniel Day-Lewis shocked the movie world last year when he announced that he was retiring.
While moviegoers are still in time to see his final film Phantom Thread (now in cinemas), for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor, his fans can also catch some of his best works this month at The Projector.
Whether it is The Last Of The Mohicans (1992), in which he played heroic frontiersman Hawkeye; or There Will Be Blood (2007, with co-star Paul Dano), in which he played a cruel oil magnate, discover how Day-Lewis' famously brutal method acting has led him to be known as one of the greatest actors of all time.
WHERE: The Projector, Level 5 Golden Mile Tower, 6001 Beach Road MRT: Nicoll Highway WHEN: Till Feb 24, various times ADMISSION: $13.50 INFO: theprojector.sg/category/daniel-day-lewis-retrospective
Yip Wai Yee
YOUTH (NC16)
136 minutes/ 3 stars
This nostalgic movie is a paean to the bloom of youth and is yet another departure for Chinese film-maker Feng Xiaogang, the man behind contemporary romantic comedy If You Are The One (2008) and heart-rending earthquake drama Aftershock (2010).
In Youth, Xiaoping (Miao Miao) and Liu Feng (Huang Xuan) are part of a Chinese People's Liberation Army arts troupe in the 1970s. She is a dancer who gets bullied by the others and Liu, a jack of all trades, is one of the few who show her kindness.
Later on, he gets sent to the frontline in the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979 as a soldier, while she helps to save lives as a field nurse.
This is no rose-tinted view of youth and history, where the protagonists find themselves facing tough times years down the road.
Boon Chan
JIMAMI TOFU
A Singapore chef travels to Okinawa in search of cooking inspirations as well as to seek closure with his former Okinawan girlfriend, who mysteriously left him years ago without a trace.
Writer-directors Jason Chan and Christian Lee of Singapore's BananaMana Films will be at this special screening to talk about the international romance.
And if viewers get too hungry from all the food porn on screen, they can stay on to sample the jimami (groundnut in Japanese) tofu, which is available for free.
WHERE: Japan Creative Centre, Embassy of Japan in Singapore, 4 Nassim Road MRT: Orchard WHEN: Feb 24, 2pm ADMISSION: Free. Register for tickets by e-mailing jcc@sn.mofa.go.jp
Yip Wai Yee
LAST FLAG FLYING (NC16)
125 minutes/ 3 stars
This is a story about men from an old war colliding into men conducting a newer one, a conflict just as bloody and morally ambiguous as the one they experienced long ago.
In 2003, three middle-aged veterans of the Vietnam War - (from far right) Doc (Steve Carell), Sal (Bryan Cranston) and Richard (Laurence Fishburne) - go on a road trip to escort the body of Doc's son, a soldier killed in the Iraq War, to his funeral. Along the way, they wrestle with unresolved problems in their past as soldiers, while dealing with bureaucrats obstructing Doc's unorthodox plans.
John Lui
