NYAFF Capsule Review: Seoul Station
At NYAFF 2012, I saw a movie called The King of Pigs. I wanted to like it, but I couldn’t get over the ...
Tag: New York Asian Film Festival
Reviews
NYAFF Capsule Review: Twisted Justice
It’s fascinating to watch a film about the police searching for criminal guns while living in a country where the ubiquity of guns ...
The 2016 New York Asian Film Festival Is Almost Here
Is it really that time again already? Wow. Apparently it is. NYAFF time. For the past five years, we have been covering the ...
The 2015 New York Asian Film Festival lineup and schedule are here
The New York Asian Film Festival is very near and dear to my heart. When I started at Flixist in 2011, I was ...
The 2014 New York Asian Film Festival is about to rock you
It’s that time again. Summer is here, which means that New York City residents have retreated to their air conditioned apartments, offices, and ...
NYAFF and Japan Cuts 2013 Flixist Awards and Recap
So here we are, the culmination of the past month of our Asian obsession. We did thirty reviews, three interviews, and a whole ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: The Complex
Director Hideo Nakata is best known for 1998’s Ringu (The Ring), the film that kicked off a wave of international interest in J-horror at ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: When a Wolf Falls in Love with a Sheep
When people use the word “cute” to describe a movie, it’s usually dismissive. “It was cute,” as if there was an unstated “Eh” ...
Features
After the Credits: My Old Reviews Are Terrible Edition
I started writing for Flixist in May of 2011. The next month, I learned about an upcoming festival called the “New York Asian ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: Taiwan Black Movies
Sometimes it’s difficult for documentaries to convey all they hope to convey, especially when the documentary is about a film genre or a ...
NYAFF Review: Catnip
I think it was George Saunders who said that the worst comment a writer can receive about his or her work is that ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: A Story of Yonosuke
A Story of Yonosuke clocks in at 160 minutes, which is a good chunk of time to spend with the title character and ...