Month: May 2021

Early in Jia Zhangke’s 2006 work Dong, a documentary on artist Liu Xiaodong, the camera hones in on Liu in a medium wide shot walking...

A dreamlike neo-noir bathed in ‘80s aesthetics, Peter Hsieh’s feature debut Drive All Night concerns a taxi driver whose shift takes a surreal turn. Fusing...

After testing the waters with a few shorts, Korean-American director David Boo is coming to the Center for Asian American Media festival (CAAMFest) with his...

From master director Jia Zhang-Ke comes a vital document of Chinese society since 1949. In Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue, Jia interviews three...

In White Elephant, the debut feature of writer-director Andrew Chung, we get a quick glimpse of how a high school rom-com plays out in a...

Sun Children attempts to make a whole statement on the vulnerability of children to be exploited. Writer-director Majid Majidi considers this in a very nuanced...

Few figures cast as long a shadow over Japanese comic art and animation as Osamu Tezuka. From 1947 to his death in 1989, Tezuka was...

Fine entertainment, food for thought, five world premieres and at least a touch of Japanese wackiness and warmth – this is what awaits the audience...

Within the dearth of the sensorial realm, the cinematic image emerges as a force that elevates the level of immediate experience to the level of...

In John Boorman’s Hell in the Pacific (1968), Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune play rival fighter pilots that crash-land on an isolated island and must...