...in the top twenty-five, it looks as if votes have been split). The list has no films by Abbas Kiarostami, no films by Jia Zhangke or Hou Hsiao-hsien, no films by Jean-Marie Straub, none by John Cassavetes, no African films (nothing by Ousmane Sembène, for...
...of Constant Stream: China 08 at the Royal College of Art in London, where it screened with a film by acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke. The scene of the greatest economic and cultural metamorphosis of our time, China is not only at the center of the...
...funeral service attracted movie fans and celebrities from the entertainment and art arenas including film makers Wu Yigong and Jia Zhangke, actors Pu Cunxin and Zhu Shimao and actresses Wang Fuli, Liu Xiaoqing and Fan Bingbing. Xie is survived by his wife...
...Chinese including former Chinese ambassador to Belgium Zhang Qiyue and one of China's so-called sixth-generation directors Jia Zhangke, and five interviews with Europeans. Ng said he and co-author Vandepitte are against the outdated image of China of the...
...and brutal and deadpan that you invariably forget to laugh at it. It is a film that creeps under your skin and stays there. Jia Zhangke's 24 City, playing this evening at the Odeon West End, is similarly good – a trenchant, brilliantly ordered essay on modern-day...
...their bodies himself. Xie was also denounced at a rally attended by more than 100,000 people. Top young Chinese director Jia Zhangke said it was still risky for Xie to make films about the period in the 1980s, when China had started to open up and implement...
...old fashioned and always about old things on the subject of traditional China. At the same time, a very young filmmaker, Jia Zhangke, tries to film contemporary China, and he won a Golden Lion in Venice. Interestingly, two years earlier, Zhang Yimou won a...
...Almereyda will preem his experimental pic "Paradise" in the Alt Film program while the Homage to XStream program will unspool Jia Zhangke's "24 City" and Yu Lik-wai's "Plastic City." Getting special screening slots are Paul Schrader's "Adam Resurrected," Rian...
...Festival have been responsible for showcasing the early works of directors such as Steven Spielberg, Pedro Almodovar and Jia Zhangke who have gone on to achieve iconic status internationally. This commitment to nurturing emerging artists is shared by 42BELOW,...
...screens, let alone 2,000. Most of the remaining release slate looks like a gang of orphans hassling tourists for change: Jia Zhangke's acclaimed Still Life; the timely, revealing political doc Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, Rutger Hauer's psychological...