Tony Rayns

Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences, a documentary looking at the samurai traditions and films that helped shape Kurosawa’s masterpiece

Documentary about the making of Derek Jarman’s 1979 film “Jubilee”.

An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively ...

A personal consideration of the Korean cinema by director Jang Sun-Woo, looking at it’s history of outside influence and censorship.

A BBC Arena profile of the Director from the time of the release of his film, The Garden, featuring interviews with Jarman, his collaborators and ...

Tony Rayns presents the work of the ‘Fifth Generation’ and other innovative filmmakers who emerged during the 1980s in China.

Shot in 1983, edited for the VISIONS: CINEMA programme in 1985, a short documentary about Shanghai Animation Studio.

While attending a screening of his film at the London Film Festival, a Japanese man tries to track down a woman from his past after receiving a ...

Film critic Tony Rayns interviews Lino Brocka and other prominent Filipino filmmakers.

History of filmmaking in China from its beginnings in the 1920s to 1982, featuring Shanghai cinema of 1930s; the progressive filmmakers; the ...

Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the ...