Movies

Film critic Tony Rayns interviews Lino Brocka and other prominent Filipino filmmakers.

Tragical lives of Qing Yu, a woman lives in late Qing Dynasty and Gui Hua, a woman lives in modern time.

While attending a screening of his film at the London Film Festival, a Japanese man tries to track down a woman from his past after receiving a...

The film gets under the skin of a very marginalized group: recent immigrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China. Belying the expectation that they will...

Divided into chapters, the documentary examines Jang's career and films from many different angles and includes the voices not only of those who have...

In this short documentary, film critic Tony Rayns discusses director King Hu and A Touch of Zen.

An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively...

Experimental drama set in London during the Thatcher administration involving four characters: Neil, a science-fiction illustrator; Kim, a woman rock...

History of filmmaking in China from its beginnings in the 1920s to 1982, featuring Shanghai cinema of 1930s; the progressive filmmakers; the...

A documentary looking at the samurai traditions and films that helped shape Kurosawa's masterpiece.

Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider...

Shot in 1983, edited for the VISIONS: CINEMA programme in 1985, a short documentary about Shanghai Animation Studio.

A personal consideration of the Korean cinema by director Jang Sun-Woo, looking at it’s history of outside influence and censorship.

Documentary about the making of Derek Jarman's 1979 film "Jubilee".

Documentary about the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, where we see him attend film festivals, personal influences and of course the study of his...

After the film screening, five people hold a meeting. Director Jeong asserts that a film should move the heart. Actress Soo-yeon emphasizes on the...

Discussion about Carol Reed's 1947 film "Odd Man Out."

Tony Rayns presents the work of the 'Fifth Generation' and other innovative filmmakers who emerged during the 1980s in China.