“Insidious” Director James Wan: Tired of torture porn, “I want to make my romantic comedy”
Seven years after launching the horror franchise "Saw," director James Wan wants to revitalize the genre once more with his haunted...
INTERVIEWS
A Director Who Can Recall His Past Lives
In the 10 months since Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" was awarded the Palme d'Or...
Dain Said Talks BUNOHAN
Malaysia's Dain Said first appeared in the pages of Twitch with Dukun. The debut feature from the prominent commercial director was...
Fukunaga pins his future on love of past
Cary Joji Fukunaga, the 33-year-old director of this year's adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre - the book's 28th adaptation to...
Q&A: Yoon Sung-Hyun
Yoon Sung-Hyun's Bleak Night opens with teenage schoolboys beating their friend in an empty lot near an urban train track. In...
Torturing the Audience? An Interview With Kim Ji-woon
You may not know his name, but South Korean director Kim Ji-woon has left a lasting mark on Asian cinema. I...
Perfect timing
SHE shot to fame as TV character Phua Chu Kang's lovable wife Rosie, but for actress Irene Ang, it is new...
Elusive filmmaker opens up
Forced to smile for a photo before our interview, filmmaker Zhang Lu reluctantly obliged, joking that his appearance clashed with the...
Takahashi Gen
Since his debut in 1992, Heartless, Takahashi Gen has become a pivotal figure within the independent Asian film scene. Living between...
About a Boy
She was "Little Papaya" in the musical movie 881 who made aunties (and uncles) cried in her death scene and traumatised...
My Jakarta: Syamsul, Filmmaker
Struggling is simply in the job description - struggling to raise the money to produce a good movie, struggling to get...
I Am What I Am
Indian gay filmmaker Onir talks about his four-part film, I Am with Andrew Shaw about I Am Omar, the story that...