2015 Festival Film Bandung

Festival Film Bandung (FFB) merupakan salah satu ajang bergengsi bagi para sineas Indonesia. Di tahun ini, FFB akan diselenggarakan pada 12 September mendatang di Monumen Perjuangan Rakyat, Bandung, Jawa Barat.

Belum lama ini pihak penyelenggara telah merilis daftar film nasional Indonesia yang menjadi nominasi untuk kategori Film. Seperti dilansir dari laman FFB, untuk kategori film nasional, pihak penyelenggara telah membagi 11 kategori nominasi. Film besutan sutradara Garin Nugroho, Guru Bangsa: Tjokroaminoto mendominasi berbagai kategori dengan meraih delapan nominasi.

Guru Bangsa: Tjokroaminoto meraih nominasi untuk kategori Film Terpuji, Sutradara Terpuji, Penulis Skenario Terpuji, Penata Editing Terpuji, Penata Kamera Terpuji, Penata Artistik Terpuji, Penata Musik Terpuji dan Pemeran Utama Pria Terpuji. Di kategori Pemeran Utama Pria Terpuji, Reza Rahadian yang memerankan HOS Tjokroaminoto akan bersaing dengan Chico Jerikho, Deddy Sutomo, Rio Dewanto dan Vino G Bastian.

Blackhat (2015)

I really wanted to like this movie. A hacking thriller on an international scale -- what a hot subject that is great to bring to the silver screen! Throw in some Chris Hemsworth and I'm in! I was a huge fan of Hackers in the 90s and was really excited to see what a 2015 blockbuster and director would bring to a story that is straight from today's headlines!

Set in the world of Global Cybercrime, Blackhat follows a convict (played by Chris Hemsworth) and some American Chinese partners as they hunt a high level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. Blackhat is so bad from the first minute its hard to even begin with this movie. I wanted to leave the entire time.

Spoiler here we get to see really two hacks in this movie and don't get me wrong these two types of hacks are used a lot and have a lot of success. But the first hack we see is a phishing attack on an NSA Cyber Security person. Hathaway sends the man an email from his supervisor telling him he needs to change his password due to him having dealt with the U.S./Chinese team and the email has a short cut to change his password. Guess what he does? Yep. Clicks the link which happens to be hiding a keylogger in it which grants Hathaway access to the system the team needs to put some information together.

2014 Festival Film Indonesia Winners

Festival Film Indonesia 2014 adalah Festival Film Indonesia yang ke-36. Pada tahun ini, penyelenggaraan FFI 2014 mengambil tema Bangga Film Indonesia.Tema tersebut dipilih karena dinilai mampu mewakili semangat perubahan menuju iklim perfilman nasional yang lebih baik.

Pada tahun ini, total keseluruhan film peserta FFI 2014 mencapai angka 386 judul yang terbagi atas lima kategori yakni, Film Bioskop sebanyak 50 judul, Film Televisi sebanyak 81 judul, Film Pendek sebanyak 138 judul, Film Animasi sebanyak 32 judul, Film Dokumenter sebanyak 85 judul. Malam Puncak Festival Film Indonesia 2014 digelar pada 6 Desember 2014 di Palembang. Untuk para pemenang Piala Vidia FFI 2014 malam penganugerahan akan digelar di Palembang, Sumatra Selatan pada 5 Desember 2014, sehari sebelum penganugerahan Piala Citra.

Nominasi Festival Film Indonesia (Piala Citra) 2014 - FULL LIST

The list is hereeee, you might like it, you might now like it. this is the big and most reliable film award in Indonesia. Some are predictable, some are unpredictable. But haven't seen some of the movies. Gonna look for it later. This is the full list


1. Penulis Skrenario Asli Terbaik
  - Mari Lari
  - Sebelum Pagi Terulang Kembali
  - Negeri Tanpa Telinga
  - Selamat Pagi Malam
  - Tabula Rasa

2. Film Terbaik
  - 3 Nafas Likas
  - Cahaya Dari Timur
  - Sebelum Pagi Terulang Kembali
  - Soekarno
  - Sokola Rimba

3. Pemeran Pendukung Wanita Terbaik
  - Jajang C Noer – 3 Nafas Likas
  - Laura Basuki – Haji Backpacker
  - Nirina Zubir – Silent Hero
  - Jajang C Noer – Cahaya Dari Timur
  - Tika Bravani – Soekarno

Soekarno : Indonesia Merdeka

This movie is going the official selection from Indonesia for Oscar Best Foreign Language next year. I think I'm kinda disappointed that they chose this movie. No, it's not a bad movie. It's an OK movie. But there's a lot of better movies. Maybe they chose it based on the history. which is good. this movie is about Indonesia's first president, Soekarno. I adore him.

This movie not quite satiate my expectation, not only showing the history of independence fight in overall, but also bring the good and the bad of Soekarno characters, pretty much balancing love story, and (even though I am historian by my grandfather's storytelling) I dare say it's pretty much accurate on the historical side and characters. But none of the characters are explored enough, or has any scene as a focal point, thus makes this movie lack of emotions. Though I gotta admit Ario Bayu and Lukman Sardi are nailed the characters. On another plus side, no doubt, Indonesian movies are about enchanting motion pictures. So, overall it's OK but it's pretty much a tedious movie.

This movie  presents general Indonesian history, and for me Hanung, was more concern in Soekarno's personal life than the conflict about independence. Technically, this movie is good, visual and sound effects are good, and some scenes are so artsy. The actors are good enough to represent their own characters. overall this movie is enough to fulfill public knowledge about Indonesia and the popular issues about Soekarno.

I like the movie, the actings are briliant. And it's not overrated like Habibie and Ainun. It;s great. But is it good enough to be Oscar contender? i don;t think so. But maybe I'm wrong

Venice International Film Festival 2014 Winners

Venice and Telluride are done. and we have the list of Venice winners. And Toronto International Film festival  and Deauville American Film festival are on. Excited season indeed. And I'm proud two of Indonesian movies at Venice are the winner. The Look of Silence by Jopshua Oppenheimer and Maryan by Sidi Saleh. And The Look of Silence is the most talked about about in Venice Hollywood. I'm proud to be Indonesia.

Among the films eligible that have played well with critics are Alejandro G Inarritu’s Birdman; Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look Of Silence; Andrei Konchalovsky’s The Postman’s White Nights; Italian titles Il Giovane Favoloso, Anime Nere and Hungry Hearts; China’s Red Amnesia; Roy Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence; and Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes. After a scandal in 2012 when the jury was unable to award the Golden Lion to its first choice, rules were tweaked last year to add a Grand Jury Prize. But only in exceptional cases can a film win more than one prize; and whoever wins the Golden Lion can win that, and only that, award. See below for winners updated as they are announced:

The Look of Silence -- Indonesia at Venice Film Festival

This year two of Indonesia movies are going to Venice. Short movie by Sidi Saleh and Indie by Joshua Oppenheimer produced by Werner Herzog. I haven't heard about Maryam by Sidi Saleh, but I heard the good news about The Look of Silence. They got standing ovation at Venice. Some of the critics even say it is the top five movie this year. The movie is about Indonesian killing of 1965-1966. It's very sensitive subject for this country, its a documentary movie. I hear it is a sequel Oppenheimer's previews Indonesian movie which got Oscar nom, The Act of Killing. I have watched The Act of Killing and it;'s very good movie. very bad ass and I like it. Not only because its based on my country but because it's good movie. Since it's produced by Werner Herzog he and his team has pushes it into so many festival just like The Act of Killing. I can't wait to watch this movie, they got rave reviews. And hoping many Indonesia film makers will get the Indonesia of doing something like this. I mean we have great film makers. But look at The Raid and The Act of Killing it's Indonesia's sensitive subject. but they made it into everywhere. I read The Look of Silence will have 2015 release, hoping for 2014 US premiere tho so they can push it into Award Season and release it here sooner. Finger cross. I love my country being mentions. And more people want to make people here and about Indonesia. we have amazing history.

Summer Hair Accessories

I haven't posted in very long time. i know, but I just had a short holiday with my family. I'm confused on what I might to post. but i'm going to post about my hair accessories for this holiday. And it's amazing, I use to have a short hair. Medium short hair, that's kinda my style, I don't think I will look good with long hair because I have this weird round kinda square face, I have the same structure as Emma Stone (she is a lot prettier!!!), and I have never seen her with very long hair. And I do the same thing as her.

Okay, back to the topic, this summer in my city, in my country has been pretty HOT. It's Indonesia. It's very hot. And if you have long hair you always need a hair tie everywhere, or even two, or maybe even three. I mean I don't have long hair but I still bring hair tie and head band even hair clip everywhere, it's very hot here.