Review between Tears of the Black Tiger and Wizard of Oz

Director Wisit Sasanatieng could never live in a black and white world, but he clearly revels in the films made from that period. In Tears of the Black Tiger, he chews up a number of those influences from B-Westerns to silent movies to old Thai melodramas and spits them out on a canvass of exploding colours and visual wit. It's a delirious free fall into a Wizard of Oz technicolor1 dream of film images and …

…full-length feature shot in three-colour process was Becky Sharp in 1935. Bibliography: Movie: The Wizard Of Oz (1939) Tears of the Black Tiger (2001) Website: Tears of the Black Tiger http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2001/08/20/tears_of_the_black_tiger_2001_review.shtml http://www.preview-online.com/may_june2001/feature_articles/blacktiger/page3.html http://www.bangkokcinema.com/filmwebboard/view.asp?GID=777 http://www.hackwriters.com/TIGERTEARS.htm Wizard of Oz http://www.filmsite.org/wiza.html