The Widowed Witch (China, 2017)
Er Hao (Tian Tian) is called a witch for having three husbands die upon her. When the last one dies in an explosion at the...
Tokyo Idols (Japan, 2017)
The sun has set over the Tokyo skyline but dark it does not become: illuminating the night are the bright lights of the city’s hallucinatory...
By the Time it Gets Dark (Thailand, 2016): Prolegomena to Any Future (Anti)Historical Film
If there is one thing upsetting about Anocha Suwichakornpong’s second film By the Time it Gets Dark (2016), it is its refusal to directly engage...
A Normal Life: Chronicle of a Sumo Wrestler (Japan, 2009)
When you think of sumo wrestling, you might think of two big men explosively launching themselves at each other as they try and quickly push...
The Iron Ministry (China/USA, 2015)
The train has been a favoured narrative element of copious directors from Josef von Sternberg to Alfred Hitchcock to Wes Anderson, but in The Iron...
Bitter Money (China, 2016)
As with all of Wang Bing’s films, here one is faced with a strictly observational work. And with Wang, observational usually means immersed rather than...
Mrs. B., A North Korean Woman (France/South Korea, 2016)
North Korean forced migration has become a hot topic in the Western media. Largely driven by the publication of memoirs by several high-profile North Korean...
Journey to the West (France, 2015)
Taking its title from the legendary 16th century Chinese novel, which chronicled the travels of idealistic Buddhist monk Xuanzang around the regions of Central Asia...
Tharlo (China, 2015)
‘I know who I am, isn’t that enough?’ Tharlo (Shide Nyima) asks police chief Dorje at one point during the long conversation that opens Pema...
Three Sisters (China, 2012)
The documentary films of Wang Bing present a veritable mosaic of peripheral, alienated perspectives across the various regions of China, from the northeast and northwest...