Asian Cinema Highlights of 2019
Wow, that was fast! With a turbulent 2019 almost in the rearview mirror, it’s time for VCinema contributors to discuss their Asian cinema highlights from...
Enslaving Ourselves to Digital Technology: On Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s 36 and Freelance
Over the last decade, one of the most singular cinematic voices in Asian Cinema has emerged from Thailand – thirty-five-year-old filmmaker Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit. Since his...
Call for Papers – Cultural Studies in the Asian Context Fall 2020 Issue on North Korean Culture and Cinema
Submissions are invited for full-length essays on the important but largely understudied topic of “North Korean Culture and Cinema” for the September 2020 issue. The...
Snake Eaters by Quentin Lee & Jericho Li
Jericho Li, an MA Communications student at Baptist University, escorts us through Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po in this cellphone video shot with the assistance...
Wolves, Pigs & Men (Japan, 1964)
There’s nothing quite like visiting the early work of a favorite filmmaker and tracing the path of their success through the years, from beginning to...
Dead Kids (Philippines, 2019)
If anything, there’s nothing dead about Dead Kids. This new feature by Mikhail Red sure is quite lively. Perhaps way too lively. Dead Kids is...
Tokyo! (France/Japan, 2008) [Tokyo Stories]
Taken as a whole, there does not seem to be any connecting points between the three films featured in the anthology Tokyo!, which was produced...