Tag: Taiwanese Cinema

Locust | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review

Code of Silence: KEFF Revisits Time of Turmoil For his directorial debut, KEFF revisits the pinnacle of turmoil during the 2019 Hong Kong protests as...

Love Is a Gun | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review

Lucky Number Seven: The Grabbing Hands Grab All They Can in Lee Hong-Chi’s Debut Working as both a crime film (non-gangster former life) and drama-soaked...

Shu Qi Flows into Taipei: Hou Hsiao-Hsien Set to Begin Production on “Shulan River”

Thanks to the interwebs, we learn that master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien is finally set to begin pre-production on the long gestating Shulan River. Unsurprisingly...

Interview: Midi Z – Nina Wu

Under the guise of a topical film detailing a #Metoo experience, Myanmar-born Taiwanese director Midi Z investigates the broader point of view of an...

Tuesday Blus: Flowers of Taipei in Hsiao-hsien’s Daughter of the Nile (1987)

Although he’s most widely regarded for a cluster of films from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, it was the 1980s which remain...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...