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), […]
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By Hannah Drennan Directed by Barmak Akram It’s certainly surprising when we hear the protagonist – a young Afghan girl – ask her mother “what shall I wear?†and perhaps even more unexpected is her mother’s […]
by David Pountain Directed by Yee Chih-yen The first feature-length release from director Yee Chih-yen since 2002’s acclaimed Blue Gate Crossing, the award-winning Salute! Sun Yat-Sen (aka Meeting Dr. Sun) is proof that a film which is light […]
by David Pountain Directed by James Cullen Bressack Pernicious, the devilish new horror film from James Cullen Bressack, is a picture that looks to have been built from the visuals up, making it first and […]
By Jamieson Pearce Directed by Andrey Zvyaginstev You hear the crow before you see it. Bare tree branches criss-cross the foreground. The crow’s dry moan rings out. It feels cold. The frame does not move, but very slowly, […]
By David Pountain Directed by Jia Zhangke Of all the politically-minded directors of the last two decades, few have had their filmmaking style so innately ingrained in their ideology as the respected Jia Zhangke. I’d […]