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Nov 25, 20093 min read
Sancho Does Asia | Call If You Need Me
"Let me see you stripped Down to the bone" - Depeche Mode After the success in Malaise by his previous production, Histeria, a horror...
Nov 16, 20092 min read
Camcorder Capers in Malaysia
James Lee has finally come of age, and with him, independent Malaysian film (or more accurately, digital video). A lanky, laconic figure...
Apr 27, 20091 min read
Call if You Need Me HKIFF 2009: Capsule Reviews
James Lee's latest, Call if You Need Me reminds us that he can make solid films, even genre films, when relaxed of any commercial...
Apr 2, 20091 min read
Call If You Need Me Won Digital Silver Award 33rd HKIFF 2009
James Lee’s Call if You Need Me won silver digital prize in the Asian Digital Competition at the 33rd Hong Kong International Film...
Mar 29, 20091 min read
The Beautiful Washing Machine: James Lee interview
What happens when your washing machine breaks down? You get a new one. Only the lead character of THE BEAUTIFUL WASHING MACHINE, Teoh, a...
Apr 5, 20081 min read
SIFF'08: Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers, Breathing in Mud
Here's a typical James Lee romantic drama, with the usual dryly intertwining, secretly crossed-up relationships of his Love...
Dec 7, 20071 min read
She's Not There
The title of this film from Malaysian filmmaker James Lee could easily serve as that of a grand romantic epic, or perhaps one of the...
Aug 12, 20071 min read
Identity and Cinema: James Lee and the New Voice of Malaysian Cinema
Lee's film was in competition for the FIPRESCI prize and although it did not receive the award, it definitely deserves closer...
Jul 29, 20071 min read
BEFORE WE FALL IN LOVE AGAIN won the Best Asean Feature
Malaysian director James Lee's digital movie BEFORE WE FALL IN LOVE AGAIN just won the Best Asean Feature award at the Bangkok...
Jul 7, 20072 min read
Sancho Does Asia | Ah Beng Returns
While an absence - that of a certain Ah Beng - hovers over the set of human configurations of a small Chinese gang - this one declines...
May 22, 20076 min read
Strange Bedfellows
Two very varied feature films opened recently, the first two parts of a planned trilogy on love by acclaimed indie filmmaker James Lee....
May 19, 20071 min read
我和大馬導演4～《李添興 我拍故我在》
也許你不曉得他是誰，不知道有一部中文獨立電影叫做《美麗的洗衣機》，曾在2005年曼谷電影節擊敗多部電影，包括同屬大馬出品的大製作《Puteri Gunung Ledang》，贏得「最佳東南亞影片獎」。他是李添興，大家都習慣叫他James...
Apr 13, 20075 min read
Stéphane Mas: Adultery through vacuum cleaning
How to show a disappearance without seeing the one on process in the heart of a couple ? Here, the disappearance of a woman leaving her...
Apr 9, 20071 min read
Indie film-maker James Lee gets Special Focus at Film Festival
Local independent film-maker James Lee, 33, has become the first Malaysian to receive a Special Focus at the 9th Deauville Asian Film...
Apr 5, 20072 min read
Around the Beautiful Washing Machine
Sancho: Why did you choose this object, the washing machine, for this film? James Lee: I wrote this movie some time ago. At the time, I...
Mar 27, 20071 min read
Special Focus on James Lee 9th Deauville Asian Film Festival 2007
The 9th edition of the Deauville Asian Film Festival 2007, France had a special focus on the movies of Malaysian director James Lee, as a...
Jul 6, 20041 min read
Better Luck Today: Asian Fest Imagines There's No Countries
How much Asian cinema can one city take in a single summer? Last month's New York Asian Film Festival placed some of the continent's...
Apr 30, 200414 min read
In conversation with James Lee
Filmmaker & curator Bernard Chauly speaks to Malaysia’s DV maverick as he prepares for the premiere of his up-coming DV feature film, The...
Jul 28, 20031 min read
Variety Review: ‘Room To Let’
A boarding house in Kuala Lumpur offers a temporary nesting place for an out-of-work reflexologist in Malaysian DV maestro James Lee’s...
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