Andrew Heskins

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Tsui Hark to be awarded Lifetime Achievement at FEFF

1 week ago | easternkicks.com | Andrew Heskins

The Hong Kong filmmaking legend comes to Udine, Italy…The legendary filmmaker Tsui Hark is set to receive the Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 27th Udine Far East Film Festival. The festival will screen his latest work, Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants, as well as restored versions of his classics Shanghai Blues and Green Snake.
Exclusive trailer reveal: V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal

3 weeks ago | easternkicks.com | Andrew Heskins

Coming to Blu-ray from 28 March from Arrow Video…In 1989 legendary Japanese studio Toei launched their V-Cinema line of direct-to-video genre features. V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal presents nine explosive titles representing some of the best the Japanese crime film has to offer. Fast-paced and action-packed, Crime Hunter sees detective “Joker” Kawamura out for revenge against the men who gunned down his partner.
FEFF27 line up revealed!

3 weeks ago | easternkicks.com | Andrew Heskins

Europe’s biggest East Asian film festival returns for 2025…Far East Film Festival (FEFF) in Udine is celebrating its 27th edition from 24 April to 2 May 2025, with 75 titles from 11 countries, including 7 world premieres, 15 international premieres, 20 European premieres, and 19 Italian premieres!The opening film is Chinese comedy Green Wave, which reflects on the phenomenon of tangping (young people metaphorically “lying down” in rejection of the ultra-competitive logic of career and success).
Movie review: Stranger Eyes

4 weeks ago | easternkicks.com | Andrew Heskins

A 21st century take on Rear Window finds a young couple desperate to find their missing child…In Hitchcock’s classic Rear Window, an apartment bound James Stewart finds himself with little to do than observe neighbours from his wheelchair and his own curiosity getting a little too close to home. In his first feature-length work since 2018’s widely acclaimed mystery thriller A Land Imagined, writer director Yeo Siew Hua brings the idea into the 21st century.
Brief History of a Family

1 month ago | easternkicks.com | Andrew Heskins

Lin Jianjie’s impressive debut about a school friend who threatens to turn a family’s life upside down…The legacy of the one-child policy weighs heavy in writer director Lin Jianjie’s (often stylised as JJ Lin) impressive debut feature, as an enigmatic loner ingratiates himself with an upper middle-class family.
Myriad Voices: Reframing Taiwan New Cinema

1 month ago | easternkicks.com | Andrew Heskins

The transformative era of 1980s Taiwanese cinema comes to BFI Southbank…‘We worked together on the project and what mattered most wasn’t whether we made something successful. It was the team spirit and the strength we put together then. Something we don’t see today.’– Sylvia ChangMyriad Voices: Reframing Taiwan New Cinema is a season curated by Hyun Jin Cho and presented in partnership with Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute and Ministry of Culture, Taiwan.
Bong Joon Ho: Power and Paradox

1 month ago | easternkicks.com | Andrew Heskins

With Mickey 17 coming to cinemas, the BFI announces a season celebrating the director’s work…Following on from the filmmakers recent visit to the BFI Southbank and a chance to hear him discuss his career in detail, the BFI Soithbank brings us Bong Joon Ho: Power and Paradox. Charting the ascendancy of Korea’s most successful filmmaker as the hotly anticipated Mickey 17 (2025) is released in cinemas including BFI IMAX.
Asian Pop-Up Cinema announces full programme for 19th edition

1 month ago | easternkicks.com | Andrew Heskins

World premieres, special guests and new jury come to Chicago…Asian Pop-Up Cinema has announced the full programme for its 19th edition, running March 20 – April 13, 2025. The festival is dedicated to showing works from regions throughout Asia, with films screened at the AMC NEWCITY 14 (1500 N. Clybourn Ave.), and select presentations at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago and the Shultz Auditorium at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
The Train of Death

1 month ago | easternkicks.com | Andrew Heskins

Get on board Rizal Mantovani’s fun horror…There’s something about the thought of being trapped on a vehicle you can’t escape from that brings out the some of the best in drama. From the murder mysteries of Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes and various versions of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express; through to the tense espionage of films like Kim Jee-woon’s The Age of Shadows.
Sasha Chuk & Heiward Mak interview: Filmmaking as a Cross-Generational Dialogue

2 months ago | easternkicks.com | Andrew Heskins

The pair discuss their feature films, mentorship, and the current state of Hong Kong cinema…. Cinergy and Filmasia invite you to a panel debate with three great filmmaking talents that every fan of Asian films should be following: Sasha Chuck and Heiward Mak (Hong Kong). At the debate, moderated by film publicist Pavel Sladký, the duo of directors will discuss their work, female voices of East Asian Cinema, social issues and young Asian identities in contemporary globalized world.