asian cinema

In a moment of frustration, the protagonist of The Cloud In Her Room, 22-year-old Muzi (Jin Jing), takes out her frustration with her relationships by stamping on a stray plastic bottle she encounters on a Hangzhou street. This hints at the…

All art is political - or so the saying goes. Even art that is heavily controlled by censors is political whether through that censorship or the themes that slip through or under the net. Diao Yinan’s fourth feature The Wild Goose Lake…

Do we all remember 3D? Ten years ago, it was all the rage in blockbuster cinema. At a time when larger studios were increasingly fearful of the threat of piracy, the “extra dimension” was regarded as sure-fire way to disrupt the practice…