A Discussion of Three Pre-1970 South Korean Female Directors: Park Nam-ok, Hong Eun-won, and Choi Eun-hee
As part of their celebration of the release of their DVD Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology on May 9, 2017, Flicker Alley, a company...
Queen of Sports (China, 1934)
History is more often not a lesson in progress but a lesson in repeats. And nothing underscores the cyclical rather than linear nature of history...
Of Time and the Image: A Preview of Select Asian Titles Screening at New Directors/New Films
Co-presented by The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the annual festival of emerging filmmakers making their debut, sophomore, or...
Who Is Arthur Chu? (USA, 2017) [CAAMFest 2017]
Different people may have different conceptions of who Arthur Chu is. Some might remember him as the Asian American contestant on Jeopardy! who won 11...
She’s the Boss (Vietnam, 2017) [CAAMFest 2017]
She’s the Boss is Vietnam’s take on the Thai hit, ATM Er Rak Error (2012), which places romance in conflict with various security issues. Subject...
Plastic China (China, 2016) [CAAMFest 2017]
Photographer-filmmaker Wang Jiuliang has, since 2008, been documenting the opposite end of economic development and consumption in his home country: waste, where it goes, who...
AKA Seoul (South Korea/USA, 2016) [CAAMFest 2017]
During my first trip to South Korea, I was introduced to repatriated adopted Koreans through a friend who was also returning to the motherland for...
The Tiger Hunter (USA, 2016) [CAAMFest 2017]
It’s evident from the cheerfully realised 1970s setting of Lena Khan’s debut feature The Tiger Hunter that her tale of a plucky Indian engineering graduate...
I Am Not Madame Bovary (China, 2016) [OAFF 2017]
I Am Not Madame Bovary is a Chinese film adapted for the screen by Liu Zhenyun from his 2012 novel, I Did Not Kill My...
BAMY (Japan, 2016) [OAFF 2017]
BAMY plays with the myth of the red string of fate – an unbreakable bond that ties people destined to be together – but posits...