Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Chicago Review film review calls "Cyclo" a masterpiece

 

The Writers Institute will screen the Vietnamese film Cyclo about a bicycle taxi driver caught up in a world of crime on Friday, Jan. 31, 7:30PM in Page Hall.

Jonathan Rosenbaum reviews the film in the Chicago Reader:

Rating **** Masterpiece

"Cyclo is a visionary piece of work, shot through with passion and poetry."

More in the Chicago Review:  http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/horror-show/Content?oid=891917

The complete film series on the UAlbany Downtown Campus, 135 Western Ave.:
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/cfs.html