Criticisms, Tropes and Cultural Export

Kam Raslan | Zan Azlee | Kamil Othman

14-Jan-22 21:00

Pause
Embed

In this episode of A Bit of Culture, Kam Raslan is joined by two people who are involved in films, but via different routes and roles. Documentary filmmaker, journalist and lecturer Zan Azlee returns, while ex-director general of FINAS, Kamil Othman makes his debut on the show. Zan kicks off the episode by talking about movie criticism in Malaysia and whether movie critics are destroying Malaysian films. Following up on that, Kam compares the movie tropes in South Korean films to Malaysian films. Kamil Othman continues the observation on South Korea by recalling his experience observing the cultural export policy of the country materialising in the early 2000s.

Produced by: Ali Johan

Presented by: Kam Raslan

This and more than 60,000 other podcasts in your hand. Download the all new BFM mobile app.

Categories: social issues, technology, literature, people and places, film, history, music

Tags: South Korean films, aboc, movie criticism, tropes, malaysian films, cultural export,

Today’s Shows

11:00 AM

Best of Enterprise

(REPEAT) In a global debt market of over $100 trillion, the Shariah-compliant Sukuk market has just crossed its own major milestone: $1 trillion. But what exactly are these Islamic financial instruments, how do they differ from conventional debt, and what's driving their rapid growth? Bashar Al Natoor, Global Head of Islamic Finance at Fitch Ratings, joins us to get into all this and more.

12:00 PM

Popcorn Culture

(REPEAT) In the spirit of Merdeka and Malaysia Day, we review three local short films and then on Take 2 go through your favourite Malaysian movies.

1:00 PM

Cruise Control

(REPEAT) It's a review of the new, competitively-priced BYD Atto 2 in this week's episode. Tune in to hear Daniel's thoughts on this car.

2:00 PM

Matt-Splained

(REPEAT) Today, Rich Bradbury and Matt Armitage pose the most explosive question of all and ask: AI, ya basic?

3:00 PM

Earth Matters

(REPEAT) We speak to Dr. Non Arkaraprasertkul, Senior Expert at Thailand’s Digital Economy Promotion Agency, about his work on smart city projects across ASEAN and how technology, policy, and people’s needs can create greener, more livable cities.

4:00 PM

Bar None

(REPEAT) A local football agent joins us in this episode to talk about his world and what goes around in it. Is it as glamorous as it seems?

5:00 PM

BBC World Service

This episode of The Conversation features two women who are managing orchestras in Hungary and the UK.

PROGRAMMES