Daniel Weaver

Author: Daniel Weaver

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Daniel Weaver

Daniel Weaver is a recent graduate and writer currently based in Boston. He studied Mandarin in Beijing and in Harbin, and writes here about Chinese film.

Looking Back to the Future of Chinese Film

Posted by Daniel Weaver | Oct 3, 2017 | Culture, Featured | 0

Showing Chinese film abroad, festival organizers face a complicated negotiation of commercial appeal and artistic merit

Jia Zhangke and Fengjie’s Ghost

Posted by Daniel Weaver | Aug 21, 2017 | Culture, Featured | 0

Jia’s film “Still Life” drowns in a particular type of hopelessness against which its characters struggle, one perhaps unique to Fengjie

New Nowhere: Jia Zhangke’s Fenyang

Posted by Daniel Weaver | Aug 14, 2017 | Culture, Featured | 0

In the auteur’s early works, his hometown is both a city and a metonym for provincial city walls

Not Just A Guy From Fenyang: Walter Salles’ Portrait of Master Filmmaker Jia Zhangke

Posted by Daniel Weaver | Aug 5, 2017 | Culture, Featured | 0

The shifting urban topography and upheaval that has always dominated Jia’s work is revisited by Jia himself in this biographical documentary

‘Absurd Accident’ is a Violent Comedy About Dumb People That Would Make the Coen Brothers Proud

Posted by Daniel Weaver | Jul 27, 2017 | Culture, Columns | 0 |

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.