Oscar Winner Sees Boom in Chinese Documentaries
China is seeing a boom in documentary making with the spread of digital cameras and the wealth of issues arising from...
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Online hit reveals the changing face of Chinese cinema
It's a small film with a soft center and for the past six months it has held China in its grasp....
Slash and earn: the blood-soaked rise of South Korean cinema
Next month, South Korean director Kim Jee-woon's new film, I Saw the Devil, is released on these shores. It's a bloody...
Quickie film production hits Cloverdale
A heritage house on a creepy wooded hilltop in Cloverdale was the scene of a two-day horror film shoot last weekend....
Serenity on the Silver Screen
The 2nd Asian Buddhist Film Festival will take place in Singapore from May 5-8, 2011 at Golden Village, Great World City....
Japan’s fantasy films act as a buffer against the reality of the natural world
In September 2008, Hayao Miyazaki, the author of Spirited Away, attended the Venice festival to present his most recent full-length film,...
Why the Mosaic? – The Origins of Censorship in Japanese Pornography
It may surprise you to know that Japan, home to hentai, tentacle porn and bukakke, has had strict laws censoring its...
Porn Stars, Clad? They Seem to Appeal to Indonesian Filmgoers
It was a cloak-and-dagger moment in Indonesia's culture war between peddlers of titillation and Islamist conservatives. In a run-down maternity hospital...
Cloud over 3-D erotic film’s fate
SINGAPOREANS thinking that the eye-popping 3-D remake of the 1991 Hong Kong erotic classic Sex And Zen will be screened here...
Richard Leacock dies at 89; documentary filmmaker pioneered cinema verite technique
Richard Leacock, a documentary filmmaker and pioneer of the unobtrusive cinema verite camera technique, has died. He was 89. Leacock died...
Antoine Fuqua to Direct Chinese Concubine Love Story
Training Day director Antoine Fuqua has signed on to direct a 200 million yuan (US $30 million) biopic on legendary Tang...
The Chaser writer now based in Singapore
The man responsible for the nail-biting, blood-chilling 2008 South Korean blockbuster The Chaser, Lee Shinho, now lives in Singapore. A renowned...