Criticine :: elevating discourse on southeast asian cinema

Today is Wednesday, June 19, 2013

05.17.12
We've just launched 'Issue Six' of Criticine, a curated series of articles, interviews and reviews that explore films and film-makers from the ...
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Ben and May

08.03.10
Criticine contributor. academic and critic Benjamin McKay died of a cardiac arrest on the 18th July. Much-loved by students and friends Benjamin will be sorely missed.

Ben and May

07.01.10
Hello.

We've just posted an update to Criticine: Love Letters. Four new letters declare love to objects of desire from the Phillipines, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. Then we have a wide-ran...
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Ben and May

01.28.10
Welcome to Criticine. Welcome to Love Letters.

Criticine was founded in October 2005 by Alexis A. Tioseco and was "dedicated to pushing forth intelligent discourse on Southeast Asian cinema". ...
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May Ingawanij

01.05.10
Update coming soon...

Ben Slater

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The Face of Auntie Jen
The transformative power of cinema is explored by Richard Lowell MacDonald as he gazes at one of Apichatpong's most distinctive performers. Jenjira Pongpas.

Continuities: Philippine cinema yesterday and today
Filipino filmmaker Raymond Red considers his work and Filipino cinema's history and future in an in-depth interview with Gaik Cheng Khoo.

You can never go home
To mark his tenth year in Singapore, Ben Slater presents seven fragments about nostalgia in the films of Royston Tan

MORE FEATURES / INTERVIEWS
A Conversation with Apichatpong Weerasethakul A Conversation with Faozan Rizal A Conversation with Lav Diaz A Conversation with Edwin A Conversation with Amir Muhammad A Conversation with John Torres A Conversation with the Editors of Bioscope Magazine A Conversation with Sasithorn Ariyavicha pt.2 Words from that day A Conversation with Pen-Ek Ratanaruang Continuities: Philippine cinema yesterday and today A Conversation with Sasithorn Ariyavicha pt.1 Only light and memory A Conversation with Ato Bautista A Conversation with Philip Cheah A Conversation with Kong Rithdee Mysterious Objects: On the early works of Apichatpong Rethinking Cinemas of Asia: Preliminary Thoughts Cinema Regained: Classic Filipino Films in Rotterdam Journal Entry No.1: Anticipations of Light Journal Entry No.2: Wherever You Prosper Alexis links Why and for whom do you film today? The Trail of A Million Flowers Journal Entry No.3: End Credits Toward New Ways of Seeing Southeast Asian Cinema Indonesian Cinema: A Year in Review Gazing with Fresh Eyes Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song* You can never go home Coming Out of the Film School Closet Love Letters Whose Terror Is It Anyway? Art, Entertainment and Politics Plural Identities: Reinventions & Revisions in Malaysian Cinema Voices of Malaysian Cinema Singapore GaGa Tours Singapore Reimagining Moroland: A tale of accidental filmmaking The Face of Auntie Jen Why and for whom do you write/work today? Speech Acts – Censorship and Documentary Filmmaking in Singapore Notes Made in the Dark Monster!: I survive through other people’s memories. Uruphong Raksasad: Self-sufficiency moviemaking



	Sanctuary Ho Yuhang's "Sanctuary": The Other Side of Malaysia. Country: Malaysia


	Min Min: Everyday life and Thirdspace. Khoo Gaik Cheng journeys inside the meanings found inbetween. Country: Malaysia


	Book: Critic After Dark "Cinema is his love; Philippine cinema his steady girlfriend." Alexis Tioseco reviews Filipino film critic Noel Vera's collected writing, "Critic After Dark". Country: Philippines


	Bona Bona: martyr or monster? Noel Vera revisits Lino Brocka's classic tale of obsession and stardoom. Country: Philippines


	The Last Communist Amir Mummad, touted in Film Comment magazine as "the world's funniest Muslim filmmaker", delivers his latest essay film, "The Last Communist", on Chin Peng. Country: Malaysia