An Interview With YAKUZA WEAPON Star And Co-director, Tak Sakaguchi
[And as promised, Diva Velez's interview with YAKUZA WEAPON star/co-writer/co-director, Tak Sakaguchi, which is being cross-published at The Diva Review.]  The Lady Miz Diva:  Welcome back to the New York Asian Film Festival and Japan Cuts. You're returning with the... More »
  

An Interview with YAKUZA WEAPON Co-Director, Yudai Yamaguchi
[Yakuza Weapon, the latest from Versus writer and Battlefield Baseball director Yudai Yamaguchi and Sushi Typhoon madman Tak Sakaguchi screened two weekends back as a part of Japan Cuts and NYAFF and just last night at Fantasia. We now present... More »
  

Bey Logan Responds To Michael Biehn On THE BLOOD BOND
Yesterday Twitch ran a brief interview with Michael Biehn in which Biehn discusses his experiences as the director of The Blood Bond in which Biehn states that he feels the film was taken from his control and mishandled by producer... More »
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Michael Biehn Talks Losing Control Of THE BLOOD BOND
[Our thanks to The Night Crew co-host Thom Carnell for conducting the following interview.]Back in May James Marsh commented negatively about the then titled film SHADOWGUARD (aka THE BLOOD BOND: SHADOWGUARD aka THE BLOOD BOND) here at Twitch in a... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

NYAFF 2011: An Interview With Yoshimasa Ishibashi, Director Of MILOCRORZE: A LOVE STORY
[A highlight of the 10th anniversary NYAFF, Yoshimasa Ishibashi's Milocrorze: A Love Story also plays as the centerpiece film at Japan Cuts, this Sunday, July 10th. Once again, we thank the Lady Miz Diva for sharing this interview with us,... More »
  

NYAFF 2011: An Interview With Takayuki Yamada, Star of 13 ASSASSINS & MILOCRORZE
[Crossed published at The Diva Review, a very special thanks to the always fabulous, Lady Miz Diva for the following interview with this year's Star Asia Rising Star Award recipient, Takayuki Yamada: star of what is thus far my favorite... More »
  

DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS with Tsui Hark
Last Saturday night, I attended a screening of Tsui Hark's controversial 1980 shocker DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS - FIRST KIND in a cobbled together Director's Cut that marked the first time the film had ever been screened publicly in its entirety in... More »
  

Takashi Miike talks '13 ASSASSINS' and More...
UPDATE - NOW WITH MORE ANSWERS! I am indebted to Christian Storms, Miike's translator, for he did not have technical difficulties, thus he had the full recording. And you have all the answers now. We got the opportunity to talk to... More »
  

SFIAAFF 2011: BAY RONG (CLASH, 2009)--VCinema Podcast Interview With Johnny Tri Nguyen & Thanh Van "Veronica" Ngo
"The New Wave has been the template for so many emerging national cinemas. If you come from a country that has had, for instance, a fairly consistent film industry but of films that outside their own country nobody knows and... More »
  

Dain Said Talks BUNOHAN
Malaysia's Dain Said first appeared in the pages of Twitch with Dukun. The debut feature from the prominent commercial director was a shocking, ripped from the headlines affair - a true story revolving around black magic and murder. Or at... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Kim Ji-Woon Talks I SAW THE DEVIL
[Our thanks to Diva Velez for the following interview.]The Lady Miz Diva:  How did I Saw the Devil come to you? Kim Ji-woon:  I had a US project that was lined up but was unfortunately delayed for a about year or... More »
  

IFFR 2011: An interview with all directors of Kaidan! Tsukamoto! Kore-eda! Ochiai! Lee!
One of the nicest surprises at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this year was that "Kaidan - Horror Classics" had its international premiere screening there. But one of the BIGGEST surprises was that all four Japanese directors had been flown... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Cinema Reborn: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Interview
[Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, the latest from Apichatpong Weerasethakul, is a personal, gentle and playful contemplation of reincarnation and transmigration of souls. I got a chance to sit down for an interview (via skype) with the... More »
  

IFFR 2011: An interview with NOBORU IGUCHI
This year the International Film Festival Rotterdam hosted the World Premiere of "Karate-Robo Zaborgar" and, as I detailed in my review (link), it sure was a crowdpleaser. One day later I spoke with director Noboru Iguchi for whom this film... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Screenwriter Yoshiki Takahashi Talks COLD FISH
[Our great thanks to Jason Gray for conducting and sharing the following interview with Cold Fish co-writer Yoshiki Takahashi. You can find this piece and more on Jason's blog here.]Ahead of the January 29 Japanese release of Nikkatsu/Sushi Typhoon title... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Kim Tae-gyun talks A BAREFOOT DREAM
In 2002, East Timor (officially Timor Leste), a tiny island nation 400 miles north of Australia, became the first independent nation of the 21st century. A former Portuguese colony and invaded and annexed in 1975 by Indonesia with the... More »
  

IFFR 2010: an interview with Tsai Ming-Liang!
This year, Malaysian / Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang visited the International Film Festival Rotterdam to present his latest film "Visage" ("Face"), a curious movie to say the least. For starters that film doesn't need to bring in any money as... More »
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UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ, 2010): A Question for Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, I had the great pleasure of viewing Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, which was screened in conjunction with a... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2010: Interview with Roger & Julie Corman
It may well be two long months since the orgy of awesome that was Fantastic Fest 2010, but just this morning I stumbled across a long-thought-lost piece of audio from that momentous week in Austin, Texas. Namely, the conversation... More »
  

TIFF 2010: GUEST (2010): Interview With José Luis Guerín
"In the year from September 2007 until September 2008, I challenged myself by accepting without any exclusions all of the film festivals and events inviting me as a guest [for my film En la ciudad de Sylvia (In the... More »
  
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