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Film Review: And Your Bird Can Sing (2018) by Sho Miyake
Although its characters get drunk all the time, “And Your Bird Can Sing” is as sober as it gets. Captured in the triviality of everyday life in northern Japan, Sho Miyake presents a lackluster love...
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Film Review: Furie (2019) by Le Van Kiet
Men and women with “a particular set of skills” really need to learn to beef up the security around their family and loved ones! After several such kidnappings that, in afterthought, turn out to be a...
View ArticleWho’s Winning – Movies or Tv-Series?
Film making started way, way back. People have been dreaming of capturing life – one way or another – for millennia. Yet, the ability to do so only became available in the 19th century. It was a...
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Film Review: Yukiko (2019) by Noh Young-sun
Hand-held camera follows a female silhouette on her walk along the road with a barbwire that marks the border to North Korea, stretching past the nearby mountain. There’s no living soul to be seen,...
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Film Review: It Must Be Heaven (2019) by Elia Suleiman
The London Palestine Film Festival (LPFF) opened with a Elia Suleiman’s most recent love letter to Palestine: “It Must Be Heaven” (2019). Suleiman first landed in global spotlight for his Palme D’Or...
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Film Review: Jinpa (2018) by Pema Tseden
Straying quite far away in terms of aesthetics from the multi-awarded “Tharlo”, Pema Tseden directs a much more approachable film that lingers between the road movie and the western, before it...
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Film Review: To the Ends of the Earth (2019) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
“To the Ends of the Earth” was jointly commissioned by Japan and Uzbekistan to commemorate the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries, as well as the 70th anniversary of...
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Film Review: Born Bone Born (2018) by Toshiyuki Teruya
Family dramas revolving around a family funeral are quite common in Japanese cinema. Toshiyuki Teruya, however, manages to distinguish himself from the plethora of similar productions by using...
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The Fate of Lee Khan (1973) by King Hu
One of the highlights of the last year in the United Kingdom has been the release of several King Hu movies on blu ray allowing one of the true craftsman of Asian cinema to be re-appreciated. Given...
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Film Review: Bedhab (2019) by Akash Goila
After being left by his lover, a rich jingle composer finds his addiction to smoking taking a dark turn when he is visited by the God of Death at his mansion. The god of death offers up a package of...
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Winners of 13th Five Flavours AFF announced!
The Grand Prix of the New Asian Cinema competition and a Special Mention were assigned at the end of this 13th edition of Five Flavours Asian Film Festival. People’s Jury consisted of Robert Jarosz,...
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Film Review: Repossession (2019) by Goh Ming Siu
Goh Ming Siu is a seasoned TV writer and director with dozens of credits to his name in his own country of Singapore. “Repossession”, a film whose ambiguity in the title is its finest asset, is his...
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Arthouse Asia Film Festival 2020 Produire au Sud selection unveiled
Even though each south Asian country has its own richly textured film production at times, especially within the realms of independent filmmaking collaboration between the film industries can prove...
View ArticleTop College Movies to Cherish Good Old Days
Discover the top 10 college flicks that every college student can relate to: party, romance, attraction, and everything they did. Top 10 Movies on College Life College life is one of the most...
View ArticleArthouse Asia Film Festival and Lab asks for your support
Film festivals are, as we know, a wonderful occasion not only to talk about and watch movies, but also to make encounters with visions and talents you did not existed. In the end, the interaction...
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Interview with Goh Ming-siu, Scott Chong Hillyard and Gerald Chew:...
Goh Ming-siu is a graduate of Northwestern Universityʼs School of Communications in Illinois, a director and television screenwriter working in Singapore, the author of over 100 episodes of TV series....
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Short Film Review: In Vitro (2019) by Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind
Born in East Jerusalem, Larissa Sansour is a renowned artist who lives and works in London and New York. Her dystopian tale “In Vitro”, that is running in the section “States of being: Experimental...
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Film Review: Tokyo Pop (1988) by Fran Rubel Kuzui
Fran Rubel is one of those figures in cinema that left an invisible impact behind the scenes and from multiple angles. Most people would think they never heard of her, but surprisingly very high...
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Anime Review: House of Five Leaves (2010) by Tomomi Mochizuki
Set in Japan’s traditional Edo period, “House of Five Leaves” ( Sarai-ya Goyou) is a twelve-episode anime series (written and directed by Tomomi Mochizuki) adapted from the Japanese manga of the same...
View Article30th Singapore International Film Festival Opens with Singapore Drama “Wet...
Award-winning Singapore filmmaker Anthony Chen, versatile actress Yeo Yann Yann, veteran theatre virtuoso Yang Shi Bin, and rising star Koh Jia Ler took to the red carpet at Capitol Theatre for the...
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