J-Horror Boom inspired by rejected traditional dance
With the 00's behind us and a new decade just beginning it seems like a logical time to take stock of...
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Amol Palekar: Hindi Cinema neglects content
Hindi Cinema is more concentrated towards commercial prospects rather than its content, filmmaker Amol Palekar said on Sunday. "Soon after a...
Kandamby: Man with a mission
Ever since Hemapriya Kandamby was a child he cultivated the habit of picking and preserving anything and everything from paper, coins...
BR Chopra was Nostradamus of Indian film industry
BR Chopra dwelt on issues like capital punishment long before there was a debate on it and even made a song-less...
Horror film “Cold Fish” premieres at Tokyo Filmex
Sion Sono's latest horror film "Cold Fish" is a completely different direction from his last pic "Love Exposure." The grotesque, sometimes...
MFA shows stormy side of land of the morning calm
Korean cinema dates back to the silent era, but in the 1990s the country's revitalized film industry made its mark internationally...
Why shooting films in Goa is a bad idea?
Goa is not ideal for a film shoot because the technology required to make a technically good movie is not available,...
The ultimate message of peace
At 8:15am on Monday 6 August 1945, time stopped for the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The first atomic bomb in history...
IFC Center Highlights “Tokyo Story”
Until Western audiences discovered him in the early "˜70s, Yasujiro Ozu was the best director America had never heard of. He...
Constraints of Creative Thailand
Just before the election in the Philippines 2010, award-winning filmmaker Brillane Mendoza was asked to make a short film to encourage...
Tsai Ming-liang shares filmmaking experiences in Brazil
Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang on Friday gave a talk in Brazil, recounting his experience in filmmaking and his views on the...
Call for Literary Submissions: Coast Anthology (Singapore Writers)
Math Paper Press, in association with BooksActually, is pleased to announce that it is accepting submissions for a mono-titular anthology, "Coast"....