“Whatever the director asks me to do, I will do and make him happy. I’m a fool.” That self-deprecating addendum aside, the legendary Brigitte Lin has a career’s worth of examples from across Hong Kong […]
Far East Film Festival 2018
“My motivation for going into the film industry was that I needed a job; I wanted to make some money.” This might not be a statement you’d expect to hear from arguably the finest genre […]
Questions by David Pountain and Łukasz Mańkowski from れferat Filmowy. Japanese writer-director Akiko Ohku shows a rare understanding of the sad and comical inner narratives of a naïve young introvert with her eccentric new post-adolescent coming-of-age rom-com Tremble All […]
Questions by David Pountain, Mina Stanikic from Kultur Kokoška and Adriana Rosati from Asian Film Vault. Like a warmly introspective, distinctly female-centric alternative to Curb Your Enthusiasm, Moon So-ri’s The Running Actress sees the Korean star play a fictionalised version […]
A dark and disorienting thriller of two distinct halves, Jang Hang-jun’s Forgotten starts off as an exquisitely crafted mystery with a devilish flair for the uncanny before taking a sharp turn into tragedy. It’s clear […]
The struggles of an Indonesian immigrant family in Kuala Lumpur forms the sorrowful centre of Crossroads: One Two Jaga, a grimly compelling crime drama from director Nam Ron and producer Bront Palarae. When the young […]