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Korean Film Nights 2019: Home Truths
Now in its 11th year, Korean Film Nights open for 2019 with ‘Home Truths’ – a season exploring how Korean domestic spaces on screen reflect cultural and societal change. Their six-part programme...
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Film Review: Maria (2019) by Pedring Lopez
The theme of the female vigilante with the additional value of the protagonist being a very beautiful woman not previously associated in any way with the action genre, has been working quite well...
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Film Review: The Wandering Earth (2019) by Frant Gwo
Based on the novella of the same name by Locus Award and Hugo Award-winning author Liu Cixin, “The Wandering Earth” became China’s second highest-grossing film of all time, 2019’s third...
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Documentary Review: Shirkers (2018) by Sandi Tan
Winner of the Directing Award for World Cinema-Documentary in Sundance, “Shirkers” is a rather unusual, but quite captivating film about a kidnap, not of a person but of a film. Let us take things...
View ArticleJAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Films July 19–28, 2019 at Japan Society
Now entering its 13th year, JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film returns to present the best new movies made in and around Japan and the filmmakers and performers who made them, all appearing in...
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Documentary Review: BNK48: Girls Don’t Cry (2018) by Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit
After a great feature debut with “Heart Attack”, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit has turned towards the documentary with equal success, with the “unusual” “Die Tomorrow” winning the Grand Prix at Five...
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Film Review: Dare to Stop Us (2018) by Kazuya Shiraishi
During the latest years, Kazuya Shiraishi has emerged as one of the prominent names of the “entertaining” Japanese film, with works like “The Blood of Wolves” and “Birds Without Names” among others....
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Interview with director Shunji Muguruma: “In this case we have a girl who is...
Director Shunji Muguruma was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture in 1969. He has been directing – and often writing – several films and TV Dramas, his latest work “JK Rock” was premiered...
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Film Review: Begum Jaan (2017) by Srijit Mukherji
The movie “Begum jaan”, begins with a scene from New Delhi 2016 and after a few minutes, Srijit Mukherji hits the audience hard with a crude reality that questions our freedom. Are we too careless and...
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Film Review: Still Human (2018) by Oliver Siu Kuen Chan
The story of a middle-aged man that remained paralysed after an accident at a construction site and his new Filipino helper can be pretty much summed-up into a paraphrase on Descartes`s most famous...
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Interview with director Bai Xue: It’s really not easy to make a film
Young Chinese filmmaker Bai Xue is definitely a talent to follow. She amazed audiences and critics worldwide with her first feature, “The Crossing”.The director was born in China and studied at the...
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Film Review: Signal Rock (2018) by Chito S. Roño
A giant spaceship crashed from outer space onto the stormy coast of a small Filipino island. That’s how the signal rock looks like. Like an Alien civilization, it also brought advanced technology to...
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Documentary Review: People’s Republic of Desire (2018) by Hao Wu
“People’s Republic of Desire” is a documentary by Hao Wu that follows two webcam stars and their rise to the top of the Chinese social media site YY.com. If you haven’t heard of YY.com before, you...
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Film Review: Believer (2018) by Lee Hae-yeong
One of the finest Hong Kong cop thrillers of the previous decade, Johnnie To’s celebrated “Drug War” was a major success when it was released and continued his stance as one of the country’s finest...
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Film Review: Afraid to Die (1960) by Yasuzo Masumura
Probably Yukio Mishima’s best known acting part, “Afraid to Die (aka Man of the Biting Wind) is a lesser known Yakuza film, that eventually led the Nobel Prize nominee to write the novella “Star”,...
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Interview with Pedring A. Lopez: There’s just something sexy and beautiful...
Without any formal film school training, Lopez dropped out of college early when he realized that his true calling was in the entertainment industry, behind the curtains particularly in dark editing...
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Interview with Director Konishi Mirai and Master Brewer Imada Miho: “I would...
Interview by Adriana Rosati and Oriana Virone After “Kampai! For the Love of Sake” in 2015, Konishi Mirai comes back with a second documentary on sake: “Kampai! Sake Sisters”. The director came...
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Film Review: A First Farewell (2018) by Lina Wang
Friend, I have watched you down the mountain/ Till now in the dark I close my thatch-door…/ Grasses return again green in the spring,/ But, O Wang Sun, will you return? The seasonality of a life far...
View ArticleTrailer for Action Short Film”Ren”
Brothers André & Vito Gogola from Sweden have completed production on their recent short film “Ren”. The film is inspired by ’80s aesthetic with East-Asian influences, particularly Hong Kong...
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Documentary Review: “The Land of Peach Blossoms” (2018) by Mingying Zhou
“So this is a place beyond the outside world.” Among one of the most interesting artists is Chinese-born Bo Wang. In his 2012 “visual essay” titled “China Concerto” he gives insight on contemporary...
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