Jia Zhangke and Fengjie’s Ghost
Jia’s film “Still Life” drowns in a particular type of hopelessness against which its characters struggle, one perhaps unique to Fengjie
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Author: Daniel Weaver
New Nowhere: Jia Zhangke’s Fenyang
In the auteur’s early works, his hometown is both a city and a metonym for provincial city walls
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Not Just A Guy From Fenyang: Walter Salles’ Portrait of Master Filmmaker Jia Zhangke
The shifting urban topography and upheaval that has always dominated Jia’s work is revisited by Jia himself in this biographical documentary
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‘Absurd Accident’ is a Violent Comedy About Dumb People That Would Make the Coen Brothers Proud
Li Yuhe’s “Absurd Accident” is a well-executed exercise in what comic writers have known since Shakespeare: an audience loves knowing more than the characters.
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Zhang Yang Takes a 1200 km Stroll Through Tibet in the ‘Road’ Movie That Isn’t
Zhang Yang’s 2015 work, Paths to The Soul, follows a group of Tibetan villagers on a 1200 km (or about 750 miles) pilgrimage to Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. It’s probably not a documentary, though it damn well looks like one.
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