By David Pountain Watch Parts of the Heart on FilmDoo On record as a passionate proponent of low-budget cinema, American-Indonesian writer-director Paul Agusta’s last feature film was the decades-spanning Parts of the Heart, a coming-of-age drama that […]
Almost two decades since its initial theatrical run, Fruit Chan’s low-budget coming-of-ager Made in Hong Kong remains a volatile document of the cinematic and sociocultural identity of its titular metropolis in the pivotal year of 1997. Its loosely […]
Interview translated by Kiradit Sachdev Watch The Ravine of Goodbye on FilmDoo In Tatsushi Ohmori’s The Ravine of Goodbye, two horrific incidents – one still in the headlines, and one from a distant past – serve as prismatic […]
Watch Hara Kiri on FilmDoo As its name suggests, Hara Kiri is a story of suicide, yet, at its core, it is a punk-infused love story about two skaters, August and Beto. Loyal, and completely committed to […]
Questions by Paige Lim and David Pountain Back in 2011, Taiwanese writer-director Giddens Ko broke box office records in Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong with his teen rom-com You Are the Apple of My Eye, […]
The ’60s and ’70s were periods of formal innovation for cinema; particularly that of the Horror genre, with some critics dubbing the seventies to be a period of renaissance (or a ‘Golden Age’) for the genre. Not […]
