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Interview with Chen Hung-i: I think all the artistic creations are political,...
CHEN Hung-i is a graduate from the National Taiwan University, Department of Philosophy. The commercials and music videos he directed won several prizes and also his feature films – including his...
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Film Review: Dust of Angels (1992) by Hsu Hsiao-ming
By Kun-Yu Lai Reviewing Taiwanese Cinema history, everyone refers to the masters of Taiwanese New Wave, like Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Wan Jen and Wang Toon. However, seldom people had ever...
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The Shaw Brothers and the Taiwan Film Industry
Written by Ming-Yeh Rawnsley. The article was initially published on the webpage of the Asia Dialogue Movie mogul Run Run Shaw (邵逸夫) passed away on 7 January 2014. Many observers have commented on the...
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Film Review: Shadowplay (2019) by Tony Pietra Arjuna
Anton Shaw (Tony Eusoff) is an unlicensed private detective working under tutelage of his boss Dan Humsey (Megat Sharizal) who chides him for making careless decisions — mainly trusting people and...
View ArticleTrailer for Upcoming Korean Film “The Most Ordinary Romance” by Kim Han-gyul
The last time Kim Rae-won was seen in a romantic film was way back in 2003 with “My Little Bride”. For Gong Hyo-jin, though she reigns supreme on the genre on television, her last romantic outing in a...
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Film Review: Thanatos, Drunk (2015) by Chang Tso-chi
By Lai Kun-yu “Thanatos, Drunk” is the best work that the director Chang Tso-chi ever made, because it deals with extremely complex emotions through a delicate plot. The beautiful story of this film...
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Film Review: Girlfriend, Boyfriend (2012) by Ya-che Yang
By Lai Kun-yu “Girlfriend, Boyfriend” (also known as GF*BF) is a beautiful film that discusses love, democracy and idealism. The story crosses more than 30 years, and successfully depicts the changes...
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Film Review: Mandala (1971) by Akio Jissoji
The second film of the ATG-produced “The Buddhist Trilogy” was even more experimental than “This Transient Life”, since the innovation also extended to the narrative, apart from the visuals. Buy This...
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Interview with Huang Hui-chen: No matter how hard it is, making this film is...
Born in Taiwan in 1978, at the age of six she began supporting her mother in her work as a Taoist priestess in funeral processions. She had to leave school in the third grade to help her single parent...
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Film Review: Missing Johnny (2017) by Huang Xi
By Lai Kun-Yu “Missing Johnny” is a story that records young people in Taipei. Filled with energy and power, this film expresses different faces of Taipei with the soul of the Taiwanese New Wave. It...
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14th edition of the CAMERA JAPAN Festival Announces Full Programme
CAMERA JAPAN Festival has just announced this year’s full programme. The festival will be held in Rotterdam (LantarenVenster & WORM) from the 25th to the 29th of September, before moving to...
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Film Review: The Hole (1999) by Tsai Ming-liang
“What is the essence of cinema?” is the question that haunts film critics and theorists for decades. In his book “What Cinema Is!”, film scholar Dudley Andrew believes that film is a conduit to bring...
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Film Review: What Time Is It There? (2001) by Tsai Ming-liang
By Nicholas Poly ‘My films have been labeled “slow, boring, queer, colorless, anticlimactic, opaque…” Is it praise? Slander? What can I say?’– Excerpt from Tsai Ming-liang’s interview on Slant...
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Film Review: Cloudy (2017) by Wang Ming-tai
By Lai Kun-Yu “Cloudy” is one of the unique narrative feature films in Taipei Film Awards category. It talks about the traditional values in Chinese family, which restrict a female’s development, in a...
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Film Review: Story in Taipei (2017) by Huang Ying-hsiung
By Lai Kun-Yu There are a lot of bad films in theater right now, but none of them are similar to “Story in Taipei”. Mostly, what makes a movie terrible includes bad script, stiff performances, or...
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Film Review: Double Vision (2002) by Chen Kuo-fu
By Manny Araneta “Double Vision” is the fifth film by writer/director Chen Kuo-fu, who previously helmed the comedy “The Personals” (1998). This film is one of the many Chinese/Taiwanese movies...
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Film Review: Love Letter (1995) by Shunji Iwai
“Love Letter” marks the theatrical debut of Shunji Iwai’s filmmaking career, the director of such critically acclaimed pictures as “Picnic” (1996), “Swallowtail Butterfly” (1996), and “All About Lily...
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Film Review: Gozu (2003) by Takashi Miike
In his 2005 book “Save the Cat!”, the renowned tutor and screenwriter Blake Snyder argues that one tool to make a successful screenplay is to effectively utilize either “save the cat” or “kick the...
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Film Review: Weeds on Fire (2016) by Chan Chi-Fat
Winner of the first edition of the First Film Initiative (you can read all about it in this article), alongside “Mad World” and “Opus 1”, “Weeds on Fire” is based upon a real but almost forgotten...
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Film Review: Husband Killers (2017) by Fire Lee
Those with memories of Hong Kong Cinema from the late 1990’s will remember the Category III explosion with the likes of “Naked Killer” gaining a following and cementing Wong Jing as one of the premier...
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