NYAFF 2012 Interview: Choi Min-sik on Audiences, Activism & That Spike Lee OLDBOY Remake

For those not in NYC for the 2012 New York Asian Film Festival, the treats keep on rolling in. Today, our correspondent The Lady Miz Diva brings us a one-on-one with the legend himself, the man with the hammer, Mr.... More »
  

NYAFF 2012 Interview: VULGARIA Director Pang Ho-Cheung is Serious About Playing it Raunchy

A near full five days into the madness that is the 2012 New York Asian Film Festival and we've got an interview for you. It comes from our correspondent The Lady Miz Diva. She was fortunate enough to sit down... More »
  

Paris Cinema IFF Interview: Kara Wai Ying Hung on Kung-Fu and Comebacks

Tomorrow marks the launch of the 10th Paris Cinema International Film Festival, and one of the highlights of their packed programme is the incredible Hong Kong In Focus segment. Curated in a special collaboration with the Hong Kong International Film... More »
  

CHINA HEAVYWEIGHT Director Yung Chang Talks Boxing, Everyday People, and Fruit Hunter Bill Pullman

Following the critical and commercial success of his 2007 documentary, Up the Yangtze, director Yung Chang once again turns his camera towards a rapidly-modernizing China in China Heavyweight. The day before his film is set to have its Canadian premier... More »
By Rachel Fox   
  

Crossing Borders: A Conversation with Actress and Producer Kiki Sugino, of MAGIC AND LOSS

One of the best offerings of the 6th annual Korean American Film Festival New York (KAFFNY) is Lim Kah Wai's Magic and Loss, a vacation island mystery that is a global-village production - by a Malaysian director, set in Hong... More »
  

INTERVIEW with THE RAID: REDEMPTION Director GARETH EVANS

Gareth Evans sat there. I had brought a gun to our interview knowing he would appear perfectly harmless and sure enough, the bastard just sat there, calmly waiting for me to ask him questions, giving me thoughtful, interesting answers etc.... More »
  

Video Interview: THE RAID: REDEMPTION Writer/Director Gareth Evans

We have been quite loud about our love for Gareth Evan's second feature, The Raid: Redemption. That's because, well, this movie is just plain badass. Science doesn't lie! I haven't seen a film this adrenaline-fueled in a long time and... More »
  

Video Interview: THE RAID: REDEMPTION Composers Mike Shinoda and Joseph Trapanese

As if The Raid: Redemption wasn't already cool enough when it got picked up by Sony Pictures Classics immediately after it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, writer/director Gareth Evans and company wrangled in musicians Mike Shinoda and Joseph... More »
  

Talking Shit: Discussing ZOMBIE ASS with director Noboru Iguchi & stars Arisa Nakamura & Demo Tanaka

Among the special programmes at this year's Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival was a celebration of the work of Noboru Iguchi, the director of such low budget splatter classics as THE MACHINE GIRL, ROBOGEISHA and ZOMBIE ASS, which enjoyed its... More »
  

IFFR 2012 Interview: SHINYA TSUKAMOTO talks KOTOKO

(...and blood and sperm of course, because he is Shinya Tsukamoto after all.) Last year Tsukamoto Shinya visited the International Film Festival Rotterdam as part of a group of directors promoting the excellent "Kaidan: Horror Classics" and Twitch put up... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

IFFR 2012 Interview: MIIKE TAKASHI Talks ACE ATTORNEY

(...and blood and sperm of course, because he is Miike Takashi after all.) This year the popular and VERY prolific Japanese director Miike Takashi visited the International Film Festival Rotterdam to present his newest film... well, his newest finished one... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Legendary Producer Raymond Chow Speaks

From 1970 to the 2000's, Raymond Chow produced more than 150 movies in Hong Kong and Hollywood, the former Shaw Brothers production manager rising to stardom along with his greatest discovery: Bruce Lee.Chow has not given interviews for years but... 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 »
  

THE RAID - Iko Uwais. Joe Taslim. Gareth Huw Evans. Fight!

  

Tsui Hark Chats About DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME

[During this summer's NYAFF, Diva Velez sat down with Hong Kong legend Tsui Hark to talk about his latest, the Wuxia spectacle Detective Dee And The Mystery Of The Phantom Flame. This is being cross-published at The Diva Review.] The... More »
  

IFFR 2011: An interview with LEE CHANG-DONG

This year at the International Film Festival Rotterdam there sure was no shortage of great and famous Asian directors present, Shinya Tsukamoto and Kore-eda Hirokazu amongst them. But one of the biggest treats was undeniably that Korean director Lee Chang-dong... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

GANDU's Indian Public Premiere: A Conversation With Q

Life has been a whirlwind adventure lately for Gandu director, Q. His magnificent breakthrough feature premiered less than a year ago at New York's South Asian International Film Festival, where Q earned a Best Director Award.  In the time since,... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

NYAFF 2011: An Interview With Lee Joon-ik, Director of BATTLEFIELD HEROES

[And we've reached the finish line with Diva Velez's final interview from NYAFF with The King and the Clown and Battlefield Heroes director Lee Joon-ik. This is being cross published at The Diva Review.]The Lady Miz Diva:  Welcome to the... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: An Interview With THE UNJUST Director Ryoo Seung-wan

[A week after wrapping up their 10th anniversary madness, we still have a few NYAFF pieces for you, including another interview from Diva Velez, this time with Korean action man Ryoo Seung-wan and his latest, the more mature, pressure-cooker The... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: An Interview With Tsui Hark

[This interview with the Hong Kong maestro goes up under the NYAFF banner, as that is where Diva Velez sat down with Hark earlier this month. And for those wondering why there is no Detective Dee talk, the PR folks... More »
  
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