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[Film/Festival Review] Beyond All Boundaries (India/USA, 2013) & the SF 3rd i South Asian International Film Festival
Beyond All Boundaries, Sushrut Jain’s documentary on Indian cricket fanatics, could not be coming to this year’s 3rd i’s San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival at a better time. Such a documentary seems perfect ...
[FILM REVIEW] Linsanity (USA, 2012)
The body speaks metaphors in Director Evan Jackson Leong’s documentary Linsanity which chronicles the unforeseen rise of Houston Rockets basketball player Jeremy Lin. The loudest of these body metaphors is the image of Lin’s large ...
Sana Dati (Philippines, 2013)
Romance, like any well-established genre, has several well-known tropes that must always be followed. Clichés usually involve a man and woman accidentally bumping into each other, the man pursuing the woman even if she happens ...
I’M FLASH! (Japan, 2012) [JAPAN CUTS FILM REVIEW]
Written and directed by maverick filmmaker Toshiaki Toyoda, who brought us Monsters Club (2011), a unique vision of the story of the Unabomber, I’M FLASH! is a quasi-gangster film involving a religious cult that generates ...
Subway Cinema’s New York Asian Film Festival YouTube Channel
The wonderful fans of Asian films at Subway Cinema began presenting the annual New York Asian Film Festival twelve years ago. They have been co-presenting it with Film Society Lincoln Center since 2010. This year’s ...
Drug War (Hong Kong, 2013) [NYAFF FILM REVIEW]
With the title “Drug War,” readers wouldn’t be wrong to imagine that Hong Kong’s critically acclaimed director Johnnie To might be delving heavily into cinematic darkness. However, just how far the movie goes might prove ...