The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Asian Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis One of the most brilliant satirical films in recent memory, Marana Simhasanam, from Kerala, India, in the Malayalam language, is Murali Nair’s first feature. […]

The 1948 version of Xiao cheng zhi chun, directed by Fei Mu, was adjudged at the 2005 Hong Kong Awards to be the greatest Chinese film ever made. Tian Zhuangzhuang’s recent remake had partly inspired a reconsideration of the original—a film that is brilliant, stunning, unshakable.      For me, it is Tian himself who has made […]

The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Films from the Soviet Union, Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis In “the backwaters of tsarist Russia,” life exists at a sleepy remove: ducks feed in murkily […]