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'Pieces-de-Resistance' - Putting together 13 films for 'Singular Screens'
Singular Screens, a special film programme under the Singapore International Festival of Arts opens today with A Man of Integrity (Lerd) (pictured below) by Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof. As...
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Review: Die Tomorrow (2018)
Death eludes me. The word in itself comes with plenty of questions that I still cannot answer, and the act in itself is one of those things you cannot know for certain until you are at the end...
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BUS-STOP May 2018: Your Monthly SG Film Calendar
Come May 6, Sunday, we will witness a film screening with some measure of significance. Happy Together, an iconic Wong Kar Wai film starring the late Leslie Cheung will have only its second ever...
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Review: A Man of Integrity (2017)
Before I watched this film, a question occurred to me, based solely on the synopsis and little background I knew. Mohammad Rasoulof’s A Man of Integrity (2017) is about a former professor named Reza,...
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Review: '14 Apples' (2018)
An apple a day keeps the insomnia away Taiwanese-Burmese director Midi-Z’s 14 Apples confronts an uneasy reality that Singapore is all too familiar with in her recent years- what happens when religion...
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ShoutOUT! JD Chua makes Singapore's 1st monster flick 'Circle Line'
JD Chuamm2 Entertainment Pte Ltd and Taipan Films have just commenced principal photography of Singapore’s first monster film, CIRCLE LINE (tentative working title), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.Circle...
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ShoutOUT! Submission call for SeaShorts 2018
Snapshot from the 1st SeaShorts Film Festival last yearWe missed the first SeaShorts film festival but we’re not going to miss the second one (watch out for our coverage), coming in August! Organised...
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ShoutOUT! Last Call for National Youth Film Awards 2018 Submissions
The National Youth Film Awards (NYFA), which seeks out the best (and the young and fresh) in the filmmaking industry in Singapore is now back with a brand new Open Youth Category, apart from the...
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Review: Fragment (2015)
Fragment is an omnibus film made up of a collage of ten distinct stories from Southeast Asia. With the titular word as the guiding theme, each film embraces the other's subjectivities through the...
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Difficulties in Articulation: Three Pimpaka Towira Short Films
Prelude to the GeneralTo watch Pimpaka Towira’s short films is to contemplate silence and slowness. What is left unsaid echoes in what is said, what is left unseen reverberates through what is seen....
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Review: Mudras Calling (2017)
Trying to write a review for MudrasCalling, a new Burmese film by director Christina Kyi, has given me quite a headache. To illustrate this, this review also reviews the process by which I try to...
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Sentiments of Space_ Reading Between the Frames of Singaporean Director Don...
How, in just three minutes, does a storyteller convey deep emotion through minimal exposition? Singaporean director Don Aravind, whose work was spotlighted at the recent Singapore International Film...
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Filmgarde's New Cinema 1st in Asia to Feature Immersive Sound Technology
Century Square reopened its mall on 6th June 2018, inviting a curious crowd to check out what are the new activities the mall has to offer. Besides new food offerings and retail outlets, Filmgarde...
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Difficulties in Articulation: Three Pimpaka Towira Short Films
Prelude to the GeneralTo watch Pimpaka Towira’s short films is to contemplate silence and slowness. What is left unsaid echoes in what is said, what is left unseen reverberates through what is seen....
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The Forest is Alive: Screening the Forest (Forest Experimenta #1)
Cinema beholds the forest with equal parts fear and wonder. No longer contented as a passive backdrop, the forest comes alive in Asia’s cinema as a vivid, active facilitator of theme and theory. A...
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'I would compromise even less': Pen-Ek Ratanaruang on his last 20 years
Director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang and actress Cherman Boonyasak on the set of Samui SongHow many high points can one hit in a career? This is a question we all ask ourselves. Thai director Pen-Ek...
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ShoutOUT! Submisson call for the Southeast Asian Film Financing Project...
Participants from the 2017 Southeast Asian Film Financing (SAFF) Project MarketSlated to make its fourth appearance later this year, the Southeast Asian Film Financing (SAFF) Project Market has opened...
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ShoutOUT! Cannes Palme d'Or winner 'Shoplifters' and Lee Chang Dong's...
Hirokazu Kore-eda's 'Shoplifters'Clover Films and Golden Village Pictures are delighted to announce the recently crowned Palme d’Or winner at the 71st Cannes Film Festival – Japanese drama...
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ShoutOUT! Help 'The Last Artisan' finish its final touches
Photo credit: Craig McTurk"While so much of Singapore has been re-developed and ‘Disney-fied’ since I first arrived here in 2001, Haw Par Villa remains refreshingly unchanged," said Craig McTurk, who...
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The Hands That Rattled The Queen: Bront Palarae to Direct Legendary 'Dawn...
Bront Palarae on the set of Dawn Raid: The Hands That Rattled The Queen's trailer shootSet in the 1980s, Dawn Raid: The Hands That Rattled The Queen is veteran Malaysian actor-producer, Bront...
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