"By the Time it Gets Dark" is ostensibly a story about the brutal crackdown on student demonstrators in Bangkok in 1976—but it becomes an interrogation of collective memory, a questioning of the role of history in contemporary Southeast Asia.

For most of the second half of ‘I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone,’ Tsai Ming-liang’s 2006 masterpiece of unfulfilled desire, the characters struggle to breathe through makeshift face masks.

In Tash Aw’s column, Freeze Frame, he explores his favorite masterpieces of Asian cinema.

Tash Aw explores one of his favorite masterpieces of Asian cinema, and the influence it has had on him.

In Tash Aw’s new column, he revisits his favorite masterpieces of Asian cinema.

Tash Aw on the film “Happy Together” and the brief moment of openness that washed through the nineties.