Criticine :: elevating discourse on southeast asian cinema

Today is Thursday, May 23, 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

List all articles from this country:

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



	Mukhsin In this extract from his article on the Malaysian director for the book Glimpses of Freedom, the late Benjamin McKay explores what makes Mukhsin so distinctively a Yasmin Ahmad film. Country: Malaysia


	Singapore Shorts DVD Do you remember The Class of 2002? Ben Slater does, and tells us about it and its impact while dissecting the freshly released Singapore Shorts DVD compilation. Country: Singapore


	Bakit Bughaw ang Langit? The court of public opinion: Lost O'Hara masterpiece is both a love story and an examination of a small Filipino community. 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


	Singapore Dreaming The HDB and beyond (or beyond the HDB): Vinita Ramani looks at the latest local film to have made noise in Singapore. Country: Singapore