By David Pountain Directed by Colin Rothbart The outlandish performance artists of East London’s alternative drag scene are no strangers to personal struggle. As Colin Rothbart’s rapturous new documentary Dressed as a Girl demonstrates, the […]
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By David Pountain Directed by Philippe Lesage Raindance Film Festival review There is a generous array of cinematic reference points that can be used in any discussion of The Demons, the piercing narrative feature debut from French-Canadian documentarian Philippe […]
By David Pountain Directed by Lee Po-cheung For those of you familiar with the cinematic record of beloved Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong (which includes such crime-thriller classics as Infernal Affairs, Hard Boiled and Exiled), […]
By David Pountain Round table interview conducted by FilmDoo, Hangul Celluloid and TooMuchNoiseBlog Between Bong Joon-ho’s already classic 2006 monster movie The Host, Park Chan-wook’s cult hit Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, recent Wachowski projects Cloud Atlas, […]
By David Pountain The history of foreign filmmakers managing to find critical and commercial success in Hollywood goes at least as far back as the early 1920s when the great Ernst Lubitsch made the journey […]
By David Pountain Directed by Naeem Mahmood and Ash Mahmood Naeem and Ash Mahmood’s Brash Young Turks is a brazen and restless crime drama about a brazen and restless generation. Built to be a hyper-sensory experience […]