The closing night film for this year’s NYAFF is Adam Tsuei’s dark comedy The Tenants Downstairs. This new Taiwanese feature follows a Landlord (Simon Yam) who runs an apartment building full... Read more
From Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien comes the critically acclaimed film The Assassin, a movie that won the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. The Assassin... Read more
Cafe. Waiting. Love finishes off a trio of excellent films that I watched over the past 24 hours. This quirky, offbeat Taiwanese comedy by director Chiang Chin-lin and written by Giddens Ho... Read more
While heading home from class, three classmates, none of whom are friends, discover the body of a girl in an alleyway shortly after she jumped off a balcony. After giving a statement and be... Read more
With the NYAFF officially commencing from my perspective, the first film I decided to watch was a Taiwanese crowd-pleaser called Second Chance, directed by Wen-Yen Kung. Second Chance is wh... Read more
As we enter into July, now starts my favourite time of the year on the film calendar here at Movie Buzzers, for it’s the start of the 14th New York Asian Film Festival (June 26th – Jul... Read more
Possibly one of the more uplifting and warm films in this years New York Asian Film Festival, When A Wolf Falls In Love With A Sheep is set in Taiwan’s famous cram school streets, Nany... Read more
1 Mile Above tells the true story of a young Taiwanese man’s quest to cycle from central China to Lhasa, the highest point in Tibet, to fulfill his recently deceased brother’s final wish of... Read more
One of the films I was upset about missing at both the New York Asian Film Festival and the Fantasia International Film Festival was Tom Lin’s Taiwanese drama, Starry Starry Night. The film,... Read more
Writer/director Ya-Che Yang’s new film, Girlfriend Boyfriend (GFBF), is set to be released today here in the states on a limited run and for fans of the recently surging Taiwanese cinema it’... Read more
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