Asia-pacific Winner Blog Posts
130. Korean filmmaker Chang-dong Lee’s “Shi” (Poetry) (2010): Learning to look at apples anew
Good Korean cinema often involves very little verbal talk. The visuals often do the talking which is not common for movies made in most parts of the world. Chang-dong Lee’s Poetry is one such example where body language is more eloquent than...
by Movies that make you think on Jul 17, 2012
125. Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da” (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia) (2011): Truth buried alive--a tale seldom told, in a manner rarely employed
Turkish cinema made an impact on the world map in the earlyEighties essentially because the honest nationalist realism of the Kurd actor/screenplay-writer/directorYilmaz Güney was blooming and gaining world attention. Güney, like many outstanding I...
by Movies that make you think on Feb 5, 2012
123. Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s “Jodái-e Náder az Simin” (Nader and Simin: A Separation) (2011): A delightful study of gender differences and the importance of keeping the family together
Iranian cinema has made impressive strides in recent decadesand Nader and Simin: A Separation isundoubtedly the crowning achievement of Iranian cinema in 2011. It is not often that any film wins three of the four top honors at a major festival such a...
by Movies that make you think on Jan 15, 2012
111. Turkish director Semih Kaplanoğlu’s “Bal” (Honey) (2010): Joseph and Jacob relationship revisited in a contemporary scenario
Turkish cinema is on the march. Decades after Yilmaz Guney’s Turkish films made an impact on the minds of connoisseurs of the finest in world cinema, came the formidable Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan and the less impressive but yet notabl...
by Movies that make you think on Jan 14, 2011
