Tony Rayns Movies

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

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

Two women are bound for the same plane, one of whom makes the flight while the other does not. In a cruel twist of fate, the plane crashes, killing...

With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through...

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

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

A Japanese man and a gay bar-owner in Hong Kong drink beer as they talk about their childhood and experiences.

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...

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...

A Personal Essay on Cinema in Korea by Jang Sun-Woo

Interview with film critic Tony Rayns was conducted in December 2008.

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...

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

Prominent film critic Tony Rayns has long been a supporter of Korean cinema. This film illustrates Rayns’ affection for Korean cinema through...

A BBC Arena profile of the Director from the time of the release of his film, The Garden, featuring interviews with Jarman, his collaborators and...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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...

Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences, a documentary looking at the samurai traditions and films that helped shape Kurosawa's masterpiece

An appreciation by Japanese cinema historian Tony Rayns

In this interview, conducted in 2013, Asian-film critic Tony Rayns offers his thoughts on the popularity of the ZATOICHI series, its main character,...