by Matthew Lee, April 29, 2011 9:31 PM
Beautifully structured and produced, stuffed with satisfying little nuggets of information on the partnership between legendary directors Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, Emmanuel Laurent's Two In The Wave is a great example of how to put together a populist...
by Matthew Lee, February 4, 2011 7:46 PM
(Police, Adjective is available to buy on UK DVD from 14th February 2011, courtesy of Artificial Eye.)There's a key passage of dialogue towards the end of Corneliu Porumboiu's Police, Adjective that serves as an unfortunate way of summing up the...
by Fred Ambroisine, January 16, 2011 4:59 AM
Released in June 2010 in Hong Kong and screened at several major film festivals (HKIFF, Udine Far East Film, Fantasia, NYAFF, Fantastic Fest, Vancouver, Sitges, Tokyo, Berlin Fantasy Filmfest), the kung-fu comedy "Gallants" is definitely one of the best Hong...
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by James Marsh, January 10, 2011 11:16 PM
It got so late in the day that I figured posting a Top 10 list now might be a little after-the-fact, but thanks to the reassuring tardiness of my fellow Twitch cohorts Eight Rooks and Sean Smithson, I was...
by James Marsh, October 14, 2010 6:39 AM
For his latest directorial effort, seasoned Taiwanese actor Doze Niu tells the semi-autobiographical story of a group of adolescent hoodlums growing up in 80s Taipei. Named after the old district in which it is set, MONGA begins with the arrival...
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by Matthew Lee, October 2, 2010 5:05 PM
Beneath the chilling physical and emotional violence, Sean Byrne's beautifully twisted little romance The Loved Ones is arguably not really a horror film at all. It's horrifying, yes, occasionally sickeningly explicit, and it does play several of its pivotal...
by Matthew Lee, October 2, 2010 4:53 PM
Hou Chi-Jan's One Day has to be one of the most beautifully deceptive movies of the past few years. While it starts out like the archetypal slow, elliptic Taiwanese coming-of-age narrative, it slips into something far stranger, moving, unsettling,...
by James Marsh, September 13, 2010 9:17 PM
[With Dante Lam's Fire of Conscience soon to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival we now revisit James Marsh's earlier review.]With his latest film, director Dante Lam firmly establishes himself as Hong Kong's brightest light for a possible renaissance...
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by Andrew Mack, April 10, 2010 8:42 PM
There's no school like the old school, they say. You would be hard pressed to find a Twitch writer who doesn't pine for those golden days of cinema to return to HK and it looks like Derek Kwok and Clement...
by James Marsh, April 7, 2010 3:12 AM
Scud's latest effort is a brash, self-indulgent, homosexually charged film - but then no one was expecting it to be anything else. As such, AMPHETAMINE is forced to negotiate a number of tricky hurdles, both on and off screen, which...
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