Since the late-1990s, Guo Xiaolu has been developing a fascinating, multi-disciplinary career that ranges from literary fiction to incisive documentaries to narrative features, with such novels as 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth (2008) and ...
When I finally went to South Korea in 2005 to attend the Pusan International Film Festival, (when the festival still spelled the city with a ‘P’), I was struck by the public culture. As a ...
The Sausalito Film Festival has announced its closing film on Sunday May 19th will be the documentary The Defector: Escape from North Korea. Directed by Korean-Canadian Ann Shin, the documentary follows a North Korean defector ...
Since the early 2000s, a number of Japanese directors have attempted to make the transition to English-language filmmaking, with Hideo Nakata, Ryuhei Kitamura, Takeshi Kitano and Takashi Shimizu transplanting their specialist genre expertise with varying ...
The cornucopia of cinematic delight that is the San Francisco International Film Festival is here again. Bouncing back and forth from Berkeley to San Francisco from April 25-May 9, the oldest continuously running film festival ...
Intended as the first of four volumes about the underbelly of Kuala Lumpur, the seedily evocative KL NOIR: RED is an enticing anthology consisting of fourteen works of fiction and one essay, all of which ...