[FILM REVIEW] Finding Mr Right (China, 2013)

One of the biggest box office hits of 2013 to date at the mainland China box office, Finding Mr Right has been seen as a game changer of sorts in terms of audience trend as ...

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on May, 22 · in Reviews

UFO in Her Eyes (China/Germany, 2011)

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 ...

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on May, 15 · in Reviews

YAK Films, Hip Hop, And Public Space in South Korea

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 ...

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on May, 10 · in Features

The Defector: Escape from North Korea Closes Sausalito Film Festival on May 19th

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 ...

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on May, 07 · in Announcements

Vampire (Canada/Japan, 2011)

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 ...

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on Apr, 29 · in Reviews

56th San Francisco International Film Festival Preview – Asian Cinema

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 ...

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on Apr, 22 · in Announcements

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