Eric Valli’s “Himalaya,” a 1999 Oscar nominee for foreign-language film, takes place in a remote place: the mountainous Dolpo region of Nepal and a cradle of Tibetan culture. As for the time, it is ...
Mixing the stranger-in-a-strange-land motif with the restless anxiety of middle age, writer-director Jeon Soo-il crafts a soporific story of connection and disconnection that stutters to its ...
In the Oscar contest before last, a Nepalese film titled "Himalaya" jumped out of nowhere at the very last minute to score a best-foreign-language film nomination -- the country's first ever. But it ...
LIKE THE spectacular mountains that surround them, the people of Nepal are scenic attractions unto themselves. It's the combination of gaunt, weathered facial beauty and the deep spirituality that ...