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She: tHEiR Love Story (Thailand, 2012) [Frameline 37]
I must admit that just as I have amusicality for most country music. I also have an inability to appreciate most of what comes out of a few film/TV genres. Case in point, I have ...
The Grandmaster (Hong Kong, 2013)
There is a lot of critical weight attached to a Wong Kar-Wai picture. Like all auteurs, Wong has, over the last three decades, crafted a public persona that has put the man front and center ...
Desire to Kill (South Korea, 2010)
Revenge has become so ubiquitous with Korean cinema in the last decade that it often overshadows the very films in this subgenre. Lumped together, the Korean revenge thriller, like the American noir genre, is linked ...
on Jan, 21
Hard Romanticker (Japan, 2011)
The title of Gu Su-yeon’s semi-autobiographical crime thriller Hard Romanticker invites such critical summaries as ‘hard boiled’ or ‘hardcore’, attributes that it achieves through a consistently tough, if occasionally meandering, narrative concerning a young thug ...
on Jan, 18
Nagisa Oshima (1932-2013) – Part of Why I Am Here
Focusing my writing on South Korean cinema when I did (around 2000), as I met other cinephiles at film festivals I would occasionally find myself in conversations in which folks assumed I had previous interests ...
on Jan, 16
The VCinema Diaries: Redeveloping Nanjing
In his landmark study of urbanisation in mainland China, Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract (Duke University Press, 2010), Yomi Braester chronicles the changing landscape of Beijing as the city find ...
on Jan, 14
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