All articles by Tony Rayns

2021: the year in East Asian cinema

Prisoners of the Ghostland sends Nic Cage on an uninspired action movie mission

Choked takes in middle-class Indian life from the gutter to the stars

Labyrinth of Cinema summons peace through frenetic cinephilia

A Sun follows a Taipei family through thunder and loss

Remake/remodel: 45 weird and wonderful alternative film cuts

To the Ends of the Earth is a soppy satire that finds nothing new on its travels

Rebecca returns to Manderlay, but no one’s home

The Eight Hundred review: a puffed-up reprise of the defence of Shanghai

“Alan Moore pushed me to think less about the killer and more about the spirit of the times”: Bong Joon Ho on Memories of Murder

Poet of time: Wong Kar-Wai on Chungking Express

The Truth: Catherine Deneuve plays a monstrous movie star in Koreeda’s French adventure

First Love review: Takashi Miike adds romance into the mix of a lurid gang thriller

The makings of Bong Joon Ho

Present.Perfect. review: the Chinese video bloggers streaming their way to better lives

Long Day’s Journey Into Night review: Bi Gan’s extravagant art noir wows in three dimensions

Burning review: Lee Changdong’s drama sparks with rage and imagination

Tokyo FILMeX 2018 championed the cinema of exile and liberation

An Elephant Sitting Still review: a howl of desperate defiance

Kim Dongwon: a documentary filmmaker for Korea’s changing times

Film of the week: Cold War dances to the music of hard times

Flights of fantasy: Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival 2018

Rainer Werner Fassbinder interviewed in 1974: “The primary need is to satisfy the audience”

Suzuki Seijun obituary: Japanese cinema’s dazzler of the deep Bs

Film of the week: Endless Poetry, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s self-portrait as a Santiago dandy

Film of the week: Cemetery of Splendour

Film of the week: Arabian Nights Volume 1: The Restless One

Film of the week: The Club