Natalie Ng, Author at Filmed in Ether

Interview: Director Naoko Ogigami on ‘Riverside Mukolitta’

Natalie NgNovember 17, 2022

Riverside Mukolitta is screening as part of the Japan Society's ACA Cinema Project series, The Female Gaze: Women Filmmakers from JAPAN CUTS and Beyond. Full pr...

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Limitless Liminality: The Space Between IU and Lee Ji-Eun

Natalie NgAugust 14, 2022

The trajectory of Lee Ji-Eun's acting career reveals a larger story about the woman behind IU and her ability to negotiate her celebrity....

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House of Hamaguchi: The Films of Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Natalie NgMarch 21, 2022

From festival darling Happy Hour to triumphant awards favourite Drive My Car, we cover all there is to know about Ryusuke Hamaguchi's cinema....

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Review: Belladonna of Sadness

Natalie NgOctober 24, 2021

Eiichi Yamamoto's hypersexual cult animation Belladonna of Sadness is at once a visually stunning work and a misguided take on feminism. ...

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The Maturation of Kim Jong-Kwan’s Cinema

Natalie NgAugust 29, 2021

With Shades of the Heart and Josée, director Kim Jong-Kwan has shown how far his filmmaking has matured. We go deep on both of his new films....

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Through Young Eyes: Korean Women Filmmakers Find Depth in Children’s Stories

Natalie NgOctober 19, 2020

Yoon Ga-Eun's The House of Us and Ahn Ju-Young's A Boy & Sungreen show what's possible when children's stories are taken seriously....

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Why ‘Song Lang’ is almost a great queer romance

Natalie NgSeptember 20, 2020

We explore why Leon Le's exquisite Vietnamese period film Song Lang falls short of being a great queer romance....

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Why ‘My Prince Edward’ is a marriage story like no other

Natalie NgSeptember 10, 2020

We look at all the ways Norris Wong’s debut film, My Prince Edward, cleverly subverts the marriage plot by exposing the horror of matrimony....

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Why ‘Love Letter’ Should Be Considered a Postwar Classic

Natalie NgMay 29, 2020

We re-evaluate Kinuyo Tanaka's powerful 1953 melodrama Love Letter and discover a masterful critique of social issues that dominated postwar Japan....

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Female Relationships: Four Ways in ‘House of Hummingbird’

Natalie NgNovember 9, 2019

Natalie Ng unpacks Kim Bora's House of Hummingbird by drawing attention to its women and what they reveal about being female in South Korea....

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Young women celebrate 30 years of Kiki’s Delivery Service

Natalie NgJuly 29, 2019

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Kiki's Delivery Service, we speak to young women around the world who’ve been touched by Kiki's coming-of-age journey....

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How ‘The Third Wife’ navigates girlhood and womanhood

Natalie NgJune 13, 2019

Ash Mayfair's The Third Wife is a delicate portrait of womanhood and girlhood - one that few filmmakers could make. We explore all the ways her film navigates these themes....

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