“Ilo Ilo” is writer-director Anthony Chen’s first film, but breathtaking intimacy in storytelling is already second nature to him. Winner of Cannes’ prestigious Camera d’Or for best debut feature, it ...
Anthony Chen, the Singaporean director who shot to fame last year with “Ilo Ilo,” has not committed to his second directorial outing, but is instead set to exec produce “Distant,” a pan-Asian omnibus ...
BRISBANE – “Ilo Ilo” director Anthony Chen has teamed with producer Huang Wenhong to launch a new Asian production company. Their Giraffe Pictures will produce a slate including N.K. Rajagopal’s ...
Drama. Starring Angeli Bayani, Tian Wen Chen, Yann Yann Yeo. Written and directed by Anthony Chen. (Not rated. 99 minutes.) "Ilo Ilo" takes us back to the 1990s, both in setting and in style - Anthony ...
This year’s Camera d’Or winner, “Ilo Ilo,” has secured U.S. distribution from Film Movement. Director Anthony Chen’s Singapore-set drama was honored as the best first feature at this year’s Cannes ...
When growing up in Singapore, filmmaker Anthony Chen’s family had a maid from the Philippines, a woman he and his two younger brothers called Aunt Terry. But the family had to downsize in 1997 due to ...
Paradise City Sales is set to represent internationally "We Are All Strangers," Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen‘s third and final film in his acclaimed "Growing Up" trilogy. The film is currently ...
Angeli Bayani and Koh Jia Ler in "Ilo Ilo." (Film Movement) "Ilo Ilo" is the first feature by 30-year-old Singaporean writer-director Anthony Chen, though you'd never guess it from the film's ...
The best kinds of movies are the ones that are personal - and the story behind Anthony Chen's deceptively simple, wonderful film "Ilo Ilo" is as compelling as his movie, which won the Camera d'Or at ...
In Ilo Ilo, director Anthony Chen depicts the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s in a decaying, claustrophobic world of temp job insecurity, bleeping Tamagotchis, bubble tea, and crooked ...
"The Roosevelts: An Intimate History" The lives of two influential U.S. presidents and a progressive first lady are woven together in documentary virtuoso Ken Burns' latest national treasure, debuting ...