Like a Moth to a Flame: A Profile on Cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-Bing
This piece is also a preview of the upcoming, first North American retrospective of Lee-lensed films at the Museum of Modern Art, ‘Luminosity: The Art...
East Winds Film Festival 2014
I had attended the East Winds Film Festival in 2012, but only for one day, so this year I had a wonderful chance to enjoy...
The Foreign Duck, Native Duck and God in the Coin Locker (2007)
Dorky Shiina (Gaku Hamada) has just made the move from Tokyo to Sendai to begin university and almost immediately gets wrapped up in the hijinx...
Happy End (1999)
Chung Ji-woo’s Happy End is a carefully observed film about love and infidelity. The world that it portrays is a grim one, where all the...
Castaway on the Moon (2009)
Castaway on the Moon is a hard film to write about. It’s kind of an odd-ball love story wrapped in a “stranded-on-a-deserted-island” premise. It’s Cast...
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New York Asian Film Festival Announces 20th Edition for August 6 – 22
On August 6, 2021, the New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center will kick off the 20th edition of the New York...
Call for Papers – East Asian Film Remakes
Editors of a proposed addition to Edinburgh University Press’ newly launched “Screen Serialities” series are seeking abstracts for chapters that explore East Asian film remakes....
Nina Wu (Taiwan/Myanmar/Malaysia, 2019)
For their sixth film collaboration, filmmaker Midi Z and actress Wu Ke-xi co-wrote the unsettling trajectory of Nina Wu, an aspiring actress who has thus...
Shadowplay (Malaysia, 2019)
At first glance, Shadowplay is conceptually shambolic. Co-written and directed by Tony Pietra Arjuna, it takes a stylistic approach to noir which pushes the neon-drenched...