Asian Films
60th Berlin International Film Festival—Part 3
Kanikosen: a Japanese “proletarian novel,” updated
By Stefan Steinberg, March 3, 2010
This is the third in a series of articles on the recent Berlin International Film Festival, February 11-21.
San Francisco International Film Festival 2009
An interview with He Jianjun, director of River People
By David Walsh, June 25, 2009
He Jianjun’s River People from China is a serious and honest work about young fishermen on the Yellow River. The film depicts a harsh, almost entirely joyless existence. The WSWS conducted an e-mail interview with He.
David Walsh looks at Taste of Cherry, a new film from Iran
Despair, hope, life
By David Walsh, April 11, 1998
Film review: Taste of Cherry, written and directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Four films from Taiwan and China
By David Walsh, November 6, 1995
In an oft-quoted remark reportedly made to a young Romanian poet in a Zurich restaurant during World War I, Lenin is supposed to have said, in part, "One can never be radical enough; that is, one must always try to be as radical as reality itself."
Four films from Taiwan and China
By David Walsh, November 6, 1995
In an oft-quoted remark reportedly made to a young Romanian poet in a Zurich restaurant during World War I, Lenin is supposed to have said, in part, "One can never be radical enough; that is, one must always try to be as radical as reality itself."
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