Tony Rayns

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Antony Rayns
Born1948
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s) writer, commentator, screenwriter

Antony Rayns (born 1948) is a British writer, commentator, film festival programmer and screenwriter. He wrote for the underground publication Cinema Rising (its name inspired by Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising ) before contributing to the Monthly Film Bulletin from the December 1970 issue until its demise in 1991.[ citation needed ] He has written for the British Film Institute's magazine Sight & Sound since the 1970s, and also contributed extensively to Time Out and to Melody Maker in the late 1970s.

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He provides commentary tracks for DVD releases of Asian films. He coordinated the Dragons and Tigers competition for Asian films at the Vancouver International Film Festival from 1988 to 2006. [1] In the 1980s, he presented a series called New Chinese Cinema on British television, showing (sometimes rare) films and biographies of eminent Chinese directors. He has also worked as a translator for English subtitles on films from Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.[ citation needed ] For example, he wrote the English subtitles for the films of Huang Ming-chuan in the 1990s in Taiwan. He has also been given two awards for services to Japanese cinema: the Kawakita Prize in 2004 and the Foreign Ministry of Japan's Commendation in 2008. [2]

He wrote the screenplay for Away with Words , a feature film directed by cinematographer Christopher Doyle, starring Asano Tadanobu. He has written books about Seijun Suzuki, Wong Kar-wai and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. [3] In the 1970s, he began a book on Kenji Mizoguchi, which he had not completed at the time he recorded audio commentary for the Criterion Collection DVD release of Ugetsu in 2005.

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References

  1. Bordwell, David; Thompson, Kristin. "Vancouver envoi" . Retrieved 10 January 2007.
  2. "Tony Rayns". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  3. "Tony Rayns". British Film Institute. Retrieved 16 October 2022.