Dustin Chang
Contributing Writer

Japan Cuts 2012 Review: ROADSIDE FUGITIVE SR
Yu Irie (8000 Miles, 8000 Miles 2 and Ringing in Their Ears) returns to this year's Japan Cuts with Roadside Fugitive SR, the third installment of his sleeper hit debut, 8000 Miles. The lovable losers from Saitama- Ikku (Ryusuke Komakine) and... More »
  

NYAFF/Japan Cuts 2012 Review: HARD ROMANTICKER
There is an old saying about the Japan-Korea relationship my grandfather once told me that is very revealing. Apparently it's really easy for a Japanese to pick out Koreans among them because Koreans stink of garlic. For a Korean who... More »
  

Review: FAREWELL MY QUEEN

It's not the first time Benoit Jacquot took liberties with depicting the life of a controversial historical figure. In Sade, the infamous Marquis is neither a cross-dressing sexual fiend nor over-the-top lunatic he is normally portrayed as. His strength is... More »
  

Review: THE PUNK SYNDROME
Pertti, Toni, Kari and Sami can really put on a great show. They are the members of very popular punk group in Finland, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät (Pertti Kurikka's Name Day). As Kari sings in his guttural voice about the greatness... More »
  

JAPAN CUTS 2012 Announces Droolworthy Line Up
Armed with a total 39 films, among them 33 premieres, this year's JAPAN CUTS, running from July 12th - 28th in NYC, promises to be the biggest and the best and one can't help but feeling like a kid in... More »
  

Festival Preview: Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2012
A famous Chinese political dissident artist, rapes in the military, battered reporters in Tijuana narco-war zone, a crimes against humanity trial in Cambodia, child soldiers in Sub-Saharan Africa are few of the subjects in this year's Human Rights Watch Film... More »
  

KAFFNY 2012: LA Riots 20 Years Later Program
As a part of the festival, KAFFNY revisits the 1992 LA riots which was sparked by acquittal of 4 police officers in the police brutality case of Rodney King. It cost 53 lives and a billion dollars in property damage.... More »
  

Review: HENNING MANKELL'S WALLANDER: THE REVENGE
As if The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Millennium Trilogy, The Killing and The Headhunters weren't enough to satisfy the recent Scandinavian films/literature craze overseas, the superb, original Swedish TV series Wallander (not to be confused with the... More »
  

HotDocs 2012: PUSHWAGNER Review
An aging Norwegian pop artist, Hariton Pushwagner, is the subject of this larger-than-life documentary, directed by Even Benestad and August B. Hanssen. And it's a great doc about an eccentric artist, rivaling Crumb in its charm and scope.It is clear from the... More »
  

NYC Happenings: Aliens, Gadgets and Guns: Designing the World of MIB3 at MoMI
Museum of the Moving Image is hosting the exhibition of creatures and props for upcoming Men in Black 3 by the legendary special effects and makeup artist Rick Baker (American Werewolf in London, Thriller, Videodrome, Ed Wood, Hellboy). The exhibition... More »
  

I WISH Review
Hirokazu Kore-eda (Nobody Knows, Still Walking)'s endearing new film, I Wish concerns two brothers Koichi and Ryu (Koki and Ohshiro Maeda, real life brothers), who live in different parts of Kyushu (southernmost among Japan's 4 main islands) as a... More »
  

Review: GOODBYE FIRST LOVE

We all remember our first kisses and heartbreaks, the alternating agony and ecstasy. Mia Hansen-Løve (All is Forgiven, Father of my Children), the gifted French writer/director tackles the delicate subject head on in Goodbye First Love and the result is... More »
  

Løve unlike any other: Mia Hansen-Løve Interview
Mia Hansen-Løve's third film, Goodbye First Love is being released in New York and LA on 4/20. This is my interview with her, conducted last year during the New York Film Festival.Hansen-Løve, the 30-year old gifted French writer/director, made her... More »
  

Review: THE ISLAND PRESIDENT

In early February this year, Mohamed Nasheed, the first democratically elected (in 2008) president of the republic of Maldives, a tiny nation consists of 1,200 islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, was forced to resign in a military... More »
  

NYC Happenings: Argento: Cinema In The Blood at MAD Museum
The Museum of Art and Design announces the three month long celebration of Italy's best known cinema dynasty, the Argentos. Argento: Il Cinema Nel Sangue (Cinema in the Blood) chronicles three generations of Argentos (Salvatore, Claudio, Dario and Asia) in... More »
  

THIS IS NOT A FILM Review
This is Not a Film is not a film. Not in a conventional sense anyway. Rather, it's a 75-minute documentation of an idling film director who has been banned from filmmaking, screenwriting, leaving the country and giving interviews for... More »
  

NYC Happenings: First Look Film Series at MoMI

I am ashamed to say that in my 14 year stint as a New Yorker, I've never been to the Museum of Moving Image, one of the city's better cultural institutions, located in cozy Astoria, Queens. I've heard of all... More »
  

Adapting Murakami's NORWEGIAN WOOD: Tran Anh Hung Interview
When I heard that Tran Anh Hung, the Vietnamese-born auteur of Scent of Green Papaya, Cyclo and I Come with the Rain, was going to be adapting Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood back in 2008, I couldn't be happier. I honestly... More »
  

KHODORKOVSKY Review
As the Russian Parliament election looms and Putin announces his bid for the presidency for the third time, a controversial documentary about a jailed Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, directed by German director Cyril Tuschi, opens here in NY at Film... More »
  

SAIFF 2011: ALMS OF THE BLIND HORSE Review
Alms of the Blind Horse, tells a day in the lives of people in a small Punjabi village. With the cast of mostly non-professional locals, the film is the first Punjabi feature to be shown in international film festivals. Based... More »
  
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