Ten of the Best Films From Japan first published by Scene 360 So rich has been the history and variety of films from the Land of the Rising Sun that narrowing down a selection of the best – or even of favourites – is practically impossible. Here, then, is something a little more provisional: an…
Five Films That Shocked The World! first published by Scene360 From as long ago as 1896, when screenings of the Lumière brothers’ one-shot reel The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station allegedly caused audience members to flee in panic from the rapidly approaching locomotive on screen, cinema’s myths have displayed a remarkable power to…
Erotic Films That Expose Korea’s Dark Side first published by Scene360 Nothing penetrates the inner workings of a society’s power structures quite so starkly as its sexual practices – and so, by exposing the relations of the genders and the shifting positions of the body politic, films that focus on the erotic can poke, prod and…
10 Great Movies Featured at the London Korean Film Festival 2016 first published by Scene360 Now in its eleventh edition, this year’s London Korean Film Festival boasts some 40 features, a smaller number of which toured beyond London to Sheffield, Manchester, Nottingham, Glasgow and Belfast. Amid the usual programme of Korea’s latest hits and indie titles, shorts…
First published by Scene360 From the vast treasurehouse of eastern cinema, there are always choice nuggets that find their way westwards, even though some, like Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster (2013) or Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer (2013), can take a very long time getting here. Here are the Asian films to which I am most looking forward…