Control (2007)

Control (Anton Corbijn, 2007) A continuous stream of black smoke, rising from the chimney of a crematorium only to settle peacefully into a ...

Censoring the Censors: Challenging the Powers of the MTRCB

from Khavn's Toxic Mango Censoring the Censors: Challenging the Powers of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board by Fr...

Persepolis (2007)

Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi, 2007) Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis is quite the delectable tr...

Village People Radio Show (2006)

Village People Radio Show (Amir Muhammad, 2006) Malaysian Title: Apa khabar orang kampung Midway through Amir Muhammad's Village People ...

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007) Romanian Title: 4 luni, 3 saptamini si 2 zile Abortion has been a topic that has divide...

Syndromes and a Century (2006)

Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006) Thai Title: Sang sattawat In Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972), separating the...

Taon Noong Ako'y Anak sa Labas (2008)

Taon Noong Ako'y Anak sa Labas (John Torres, 2008) English Tranlation: Years When I Was a Child Outside “Have I made that film?” asks Jo...

2 Days in Paris (2007)

2 Days in Paris (Julie Delpy, 2007) When Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke reunited, although belatedly, in a little book shop in Paris, it felt j...

Ploy (2007)

Ploy (Pen-ek Ratanaruang, 2007) Pen-ek Ratanaruang's latest, Ploy , is quite a beautiful film. It's a marital thriller mostly set in...

The Edge of Heaven (2007)

The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 2007) Fatih Akin's middle entry to a still unfinished trilogy (which started with Head-on (2004)) is str...

Woman on the Beach (2006)

Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006) Korean Title: Haebyonui yoin In one scene in Hong Sang-soo's Woman on the Beach , film director...