NYAFF Review: Silent Witness
Before the screening of Silent Witness, it was introduced as an example of what mainstream Chinese filmmaking is like in the modern era. ...
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NYAFF Review: Aberdeen
You never know what you’re going to get from a Pang Ho-Cheung film. In 2010, you got an ultraviolent slasher with Dream Home. ...
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Review: Why Don’t You Play in Hell?
Last year, Japan Cuts played Sion Sono’s Bad Film, a project filmed back in 1995 but not finished until 2012. In my non-review of ...
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NYAFF Review: Cold Eyes
Some of my favorite movies are ones that make me want to go and do something after the lights come up. Some films ...
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NYAFF Review: As the Light Goes Out
There’s something uniquely fascinating about firefighters. When they arrive on a scene, they aren’t armed to the teeth and ready to take down ...
NYAFF Review: The White Storm
Before the screening of As the Light Goes Out, NYAFF co-founder/the world’s greatest salesman Grady Hendrix made a pitch for people to stay ...
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Review: R100
Thanks to R100, we know the proper recipe for a shirt: 24 hours in a slow-cooker, with red wine sauce, celery and carrots. ...
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NYAFF Review: The Eternal Zero
The Eternal Zero is one of the biggest blockbusters ever released in Japan. A tale of the World War II from the viewpoint of ...
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NYAFF Review: Fuku-chan of FukuFuku Flats
Japanese comedies have a reputation for being wild and crazy. Let me rephrase that, Japanese movies have a reputation for being wild and ...
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NYAFF Review: Top Star
When one of NYAFF’s programmers introduced Top Star, he said that it was surprising that this was Park Joong-hoon’s directorial debut. Park has worked ...
NYAFF Non-Review: 3D Naked Ambition is the weirdest movie I’ve ever seen
It’s been an odd week. On Monday, we posted my review of R100, a film so crazy it inspired a man to eat ...
NYAFF Recommendation: Han Gong-Ju
Han Gong-Ju is incredible. It’s easily the best film I’ve seen at the New York Asian Film Festival thus far and among the ...