Preview – Asian Pop-Up Cinema Season Eight, Chicago, March 12 – April 24, 2019
Non-profit pan-Asian film organization Sophia’s Choice today has announced Asian Pop-Up Cinema – Season Eight, the spring film series presenting sixteen films from across Asia,...
Preview – The Story of China: SACU Talk by Professor Michael Wood, London, March 15, 2019
Historian and broadcaster Michael Wood will give a talk on at EY’s (Ernst & Young) London offices on March 15. Illustrated with film clips, he...
Who Killed Cock Robin (Taiwan, 2017)
In a country eleven times smaller than the state of California, intertwining narratives are likely to be more commonplace in Taiwan than its neighbours, perhaps...
Call for Papers – Eyes Unclouded: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, May 8, 2019, Lewes Depot Cinema, Lewes, UK
University of Sussex and the Lewes Depot Cinema present the 2019 Contemporary Directors Symposium. Hayao Miyazaki is an unusual figure. Only Walt Disney rivals him...
Red Flowers and Green Leaves (China, 2018)
Liu Miaomiao and Hu Weijie’s Red Flowers and Green Leaves treats a complicated matter in a simplified way. While being a story about marriage, the...
The Foolish Bird (China, 2017)
Set against the backdrop of contemporary China’s technocratic and dissimulated culture industry, Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka’s contemplatively paced film The Foolish Bird articulates a...
West North West (Japan, 2015)
Outsider stories deserve an outsider means of expression; to constrict such stories to the realm of traditional narratives or storytelling is to deny them their...
One Night Only (China, 2016)
Gao Ye (Aaron Kwok) is a gambling addict deeply in debt with local loan sharks. When a sex worker named Mo Mo (Yang Zishan) turns...
Call for Papers – Women in East Asian Cinema, A Chinese Film Forum UK Conference, HOME, Manchester, December 4-6, 2019
Recent interventions into global film and processes of canonisation have worked to highlight the contributions of women in spaces and discourses previously dominated by men....
The Enigma of Arrival (China, 2018)
From the start of The Enigma of Arrival, we are guided through a maze of superimposed and dreamy scenes by the languorous voice of the...