Many Happy Returns: Notes on the 18th Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Reporting from the 18th Five Flavours Asian Film Festival, Olivia Popp shares her highlights and favourites.
Reporting from the 18th Five Flavours Asian Film Festival, Olivia Popp shares her highlights and favourites.
Breaking down the boundaries between the internal and the external, 'Monsoon Blue' is a bizarre, dream-like experience.
A deeper reading of 'In Broad Daylight,' colours the film as a story nested within Hong Kong’s faltering status as an autonomous society.
In 'Peking Opera Blues,' Tsui Hark finds harmony between the beginning of China’s existence as a republic and the imminence of the Hong Kong handover.
'Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In' might not be director Soi Cheang’s best work, but it’s one of his most successful.
The brilliance of 'Boat People' is that there’s no pretence of journalism being “objective” or “impartial.”
'I Did It My Way' fails to capitalize on what could have been a refreshing take on the all-too-familiar undercover cop subgenre.
'All Shall Be Well' displays a calmer, more stable stasis of being an older couple.
Taking a musical journey through Wong Kar-wai's best needle drops and soundtracks.
Time in 'In the Mood for Love' carries an urgency that feels pregnant, an intentionality that is unignorable.