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Antony Rayns | |
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| Born | 1948 (age 76–77) |
| Occupation(s) | writer,commentator,screenwriter |
Antony Rayns (born 1948) is a British writer, commentator,film festival programmer and screenwriter. He wrote for the underground publicationCinema Rising (its name inspired by Kenneth Anger'sScorpio Rising) before contributing to theMonthly Film Bulletin from the December 1970 issue until its demise in 1991.[citation needed] He has written for theBritish Film Institute's magazineSight & Sound since the 1970s, and also contributed extensively toTime Out and toMelody Maker in the late 1970s.
He provides commentary tracks for DVD releases of Asian films. He coordinated theDragons and Tigers competition for Asian films at theVancouver International Film Festival from 1988 to 2006.[1] In the 1980s, he presented a series calledNew 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 forAway with Words, a feature film directed by cinematographerChristopher Doyle, starringAsano Tadanobu. He has written books aboutSeijun Suzuki,Wong Kar-wai andRainer Werner Fassbinder.[3] In the 1970s, he began a book onKenji Mizoguchi, which he had not completed at the time he recorded audio commentary for theCriterion Collection DVD release ofUgetsu in 2005.
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