In the deep south of a country where few locals drink, fewer speak English, and the metric system reigns supreme, you’ll find a derelict gas station whose sign promises, “Cold beer. Last stop 200 miles.”
It’s one of several structures near this garrison town that may disrupt [...]

JOHN WOO HAS DREAMED of adapting “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” his entire life. The Hong Kong-born director first read the epic Chinese novel as a boy, and 40 years later he has finally turned the story into “Red Cliff,” which is the top-grossing movie in Asia.
READ HIS THOUGHTS ON MAKING RED CLIFF

The Odeon Cinema’s creaky, ripped red vinyl seats are mostly empty except for a couple of back rows where a dozen Pakistani men sit slouched, their eyes half-open, legs slung over the seats in front of them. Along the hall’s bubble-gum pink walls, rows of fans barely move the hot, dank air. The Odeon’s loudspeakers [...]

Reporting from San Jose - It’s 8 p.m. Friday and the historic Towne Theatre downtown is sold out. About 500 moviegoers have crowded into the three-screen movie house, paying up to $12 a ticket to watch not the latest Hollywood blockbuster but instead the premieres of three Indian movies that are opening simultaneously in India. 
Tonight’s showcase [...]

These days the answer to nearly every question about the Asian film industry is China. The awakening of the world’s most populous nation and the ongoing steps toward it becoming a cinematic powerhouse are not only turning the global boxoffice charts on their heads, they’re also redefining the meaning of the word “co-production” sucking in [...]

It isn’t easy making a movie in the Dominican Republic. When Michael Mann tried shooting part of “Miami Vice” there in 2005, a gunfight broke out near the film set, prompting costar Jamie Foxx to leave the country and forcing the film to relocate to Miami.
The filmmakers who made “La Soga,” which recently earned several [...]

Western filmmakers are increasingly tapping India for inspiration and locations and perceiving it in a new light.
The runaway global success of Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire may have triggered the growing focus on the subcontinent, but a spate of new films is going beyond the much flogged India-as-a-land-of-slums-and-squalor syndrome.
Three major films in the official line-up of [...]

Directors and others live for the Gulf Film Festival in Dubai, where their films about the oppressiveness of life in the Islamic kingdom can finally be seen in public.
Cruise the highways and boulevards of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and it appears all there in flash and neon: cool marble malls, Starbucks, plastic surgery clinics and enough [...]

Luc Besson arrives at his office in Paris’s eighth arrondissement clutching a motorcycle helmet against his belly. Casual in a cotton T-shirt, the French film mogul looks a little tired, his thick tufts of silvery hair – which he likes to gel into spikes – flattened by the ride.
He may still look like a filmmaker [...]

With help from its greatest fan Martin Scorsese, Powell and Pressburger’s 1948 masterpiece ‘The Red Shoes’ is returning to the screen in its full Technicolor glory. But what does a restoration project on this scale really involve, asks Ian Christie
When he saw the great Old Master painting collection bought from the Duc d’Orléans that reached [...]