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Tony Rayns

The Subversive Showman

By Tony Rayns
May 3, 2015
Jang Jin may be Korean cinema’s best-kept secret

Terra Incognita

By Tony Rayns
January 5, 2015
Young Turks & Old Masters: an annotated Asian cinema hot list

Review: Stray Dogs

By Tony Rayns
April 29, 2014
(Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France, 2013)

Heard It Through the Grapevine

By Tony Rayns
September 26, 2013
Jia Zhang-ke reads the uncensored news on Weibo and responds with the groundbreaking A Touch of Sin

NYFF Preview: In the Realm of the Senses

By Tony Rayns
May 30, 2011
From the September/October 1976 issue of Film Comment comes Tony Rayns's review of In the Realm of the Senses, written for the '76 New York Film Festival

A Samurai Among Farmers

By Tony Rayns
May 26, 2011
Rejecting the orthodoxies of postwar Japanese society, Nagisa Oshima created a radical and uniquely protean body of work

Review: Departures

By Tony Rayns
May 26, 2011
(Yojiro Takita, Japan, 2008)

Review: Still Walking

By Tony Rayns
May 20, 2011
(Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan, 2008)