The Film Sufi

Raise the Red Lantern ( Dà Hóng Dēnglóng Gāogāo Guà , 1991) was director Zhang Yimou’s fourth feature film, coming right after his outsta...

The Ghost Ship was the fifth successive low-budget “horror” film produced by Val Lewton in a short space of time, following The Cat Peop...

Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers ( Shí Miàn Mái Fú , 2004) was his second successive foray, following Hero ( Yi-ng Xióng , 2002), i...

Although it was only a B-movie, with second line performers and a low budget, D.O.A. (1950) still stacks up today as one of the truly clas...

A woman friend of mine once insightfully remarked that men show much more compassion and empathy for other men than women do for other wome...