The Chanoma Film Festival prides itself on presenting a softer side of Japan. That's as good an excuse as any to show some films we can't otherwise see.
The Chanoma Film Festival's presentation of Sharasoju came without the benefit of subtitles. Unfazed, APA explains how this absence opened the experience to new forms of visual pleasure.
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The author of Can't Stop Won't Stop, a cultural history of the hip-hop generation, and a giant in the world of arts criticism, Jeff Chang gets candid about the future of Asian American programming, his so-called career, and what it means to step into the cipher
Activist, DJ, audioblogger, critic, photographer -- you can now add professor to the list of the many hats that Oliver Wang, aka O-dub, wears. In APA's interview with him, Wang discusses the dire state of arts journalism, blogging versus print journalism, and why rappers -- and critics -- are sensitive thugs that all need hugs.
Asian films bought by Hollywood distributors and new films for Wong Kar Wai, Wayne Wang, Ken Watanabe, and Lucy Liu. All this and more in the latest edition of News Bites.
New Tony, Takeshi, Shu Qi thriller coming around the corner, Mira Nair rounds up Bollywood for a good cause, and Kim Jong-il's a film critic. All this and more in the latest edition of News From Abroad.