Dustin Chang
Contributing Writer

BOMBAY BEACH: Alma Har'el Interview
A little history on Bombay Beach first: The desolate and surreal Salton Sea in California stands as a formidable metaphor for the broken American Dream. The largest lake in California, it was created when the Colorado River flooded the windswept... More »
  

Brothers Quay THROUGH THE WEEPING GLASS: ON THE CONSOLATIONS OF LIFE EVERLASTING Review
Stephen and Timothy Quay's Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) was shown at The Museum of Modern Art over the weekend (Sept. 24th), with the brothers in attendance as... More »
  

Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today: HANJI Review
Hanji, a film about the traditional Korean papermaking, is the 101st film by the prolific Korean director Im Kwon-taek (Chunhyang, Chihwaseon: Painted Fire). It plays as part of MoMA's second annual Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today, which runs 9/23-9/30.Park Joong-hoon plays... More »
  

Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today: LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS Review
Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo's Lost in the Mountains plays as part of Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) which starts today and runs through September 30th. It is paired up with Bong Joon-ho's 2004... More »
  

THREE Review

[With Tom Tykwer's first German-language film in a decade releasing limited today in the U.S. we now revisit Dustin Chang's review from this spring.]I can't find any news article that says Tom Tykwer, the German director known for his celestial,... More »
  

TIFF 2011: MELANCHOLIA Review
A lot of people I know want to kick Lars von Trier in the balls if they were ever given a chance to do so. They think he is the biggest a**hole on the planet. That he is an... More »
  

AMIGO Review
The year is 1900. The setting is a sleepy, small village in the Philippines. A group of American soldiers arrive to secure the area and rid of it any rogue elements. It's nothing new to the villagers of San Isidro.... More »
  

AMIGO: John Sayles Interview
Regarded by many as the godfather of the American independent cinema, John Sayles has always been the chronicler of the little known socio-political injustices in American history. The prolific writer/director/editor/author's latest projects are a 955 page novel, A Moment... More »
  

THE FUTURE Review
A couple of weeks ago, I was having brunch with my wife at this German place we know. Some waitstaff's ipod mix was playing through the speakers and a familiar song caught our attention. It was 'Where the Streets Have... More »
  

JAPAN CUTS 2011: HARU'S JOURNEY Review
Tadao (screen legend Tatsuya Nakadai) is very upset. He's first seen storming out of the house by the sea in a small fishing village in Hokkaido, with his granddaughter Haru (Eri Tokunaga) trailing behind with his cane. She apologizes... More »
  

JAPAN CUTS 2011: SKETCHES OF KAITAN CITY Review
A young shipyard worker takes pride in his work. You can see it in his face when one of the gigantic ships he worked on is being launched to sea. There is almost a childlike glee in him. Then the... More »
  

JAPAN CUTS 2011: TORSO Review
One might wonder that whether we need yet another film about a blow up sex doll, especially one coming from the long time Hirokazu Kore-Eda's cinematographer Yutaka Yamasaki. Not that Kore-Eda's approach in Air Doll was in any way sensationalistic,... More »
  

I Can be Funny Too: Errol Morris Talks TABLOID
[Please check out Kurt's excellent review of Tabloid, first] I'm not a big fan of roundtable interviews. It's not as intimate as one-on-ones and you have to share the short given time with other interviewers. But when an opportunity comes along... More »
  

NYAFF/Japan Cuts 2011: RINGING IN THEIR EARS Review
The film starts out with Noko, a lead singer of Japanese metafunk band Shinsei Kamattechan, on stage, singing while holding a laptop in front of him. With fans' comments flying across the live streaming images of the concert in the... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: THE RECIPE Review
The Recipe's Korean title, 'doenjang' refers to 'fermented soybean paste' which is the base of almost all Korean cooking- it is in soups, stews, marinades, condiments, side dishes... the list is endless. With such an ever-present, everyday ingredient as the... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: SELL OUT! Review (Dustin's Take)
The film begins with sultry Rafflesia (Jessica Lai) interviewing a Malaysian film auteur for her low end TV talk show called "For Art's Sake". The auteur is Yeo Joon Han (the director making a cameo) who just won the prestigious... More »
  

Korean Movie Night: CAFE NOIR Review
Cafe Noir is screening for free Tuesday, June 21 at 7:00 PM, as part of Korean Movie Night at Tribeca Cinemas. You can find more details and information on the Subway Cinema site.Jeoung Sung-il, a well regarded Korean film critic,... More »
  

ROAD TO NOWHERE Review
As a fan of Monte Hellman, the famed director of the 70's seminal counter-culture classics such as Two Lane Blacktop and Cockfighter, it is very hard for me to report to other Hellman fans that Road to Nowhere, his new... More »
  

PLAY GOD Review
A successful Helsinki based commercial director, Teemu Nikki looks back on his failed attempt at making the first Finnish splatter movie, Play God. This 38 minute, behind-the-scene, inside look at filmmaking gone awry doc is sort of 'making of' featurette... More »
  

MARY MARIE Review
In the beginning of the film, Mary (Alana Kearns-Green) and Marie (Alexandra Roxo) spend the night at the grandpa's house at the wake of their mother's passing. Mary insists on sleeping in the same bed with the old man. This... More »
  
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