Asian Film Blogger

Here's a treat I found while trolling through MilkPlus's wonderful links. Tom Vick is a guy steeped in Asian cinema, has written for All Movie Guide on the subject and shows Asian movies at a museum. You're not going to find experts like this writing for the local paper - Tom is a good example of why the "blogosphere" (sorry, no other word) is such a useful thing.

He has started a blog where he writes about whatever interests him in this ouvre -- and that's a pretty wide swath as Asia includes China, Hong Kong, Japan, India (Bollywood) and so on. He also includes some useful links for those who want to read up on these films that are often hard to get information on -- at least in English.

His (fairly) new journal starts here if you want to get in on the ground floor - here's his mission statement from his first post:

Lately I’ve begun to realize that lots of people, especially here in the United States, no matter how curious or interested, may only be aware of a small fraction of what Asian cinema has to offer. This blog will be an attempt to share some of what I’ve been fortunate enough to discover, along with a few detours into more general film topics.

Worth checking on and adding to your RSS reader -- he will definitely be on my blogroll when I get around to constructing it.

Tom's latest film programming for Washington's Korean Film Festival 2004 can be seen here.

P.S. Thanks to Milkplus for including my meager offering in their blogroll. Read their latest review of Collatoral.