FeaturedFive Hong Kong Horror Films to Check Out this HalloweenFrom the scary to the absurd to the grotesque — five fine HK horror flicks to track ... By Daniel WeaverOctober 30, 2017
FeaturedLooking Back to the Future of Chinese FilmShowing Chinese film abroad, festival organizers face a complicated negotiation of commercial appeal and artistic merit By Daniel WeaverOctober 3, 2017
FeaturedJia Zhangke and Fengjie’s GhostJia's film "Still Life" drowns in a particular type of hopelessness against which its characters struggle, one ... By Daniel WeaverAugust 21, 2017
FeaturedNew Nowhere: Jia Zhangke’s FenyangIn the auteur's early works, his hometown is both a city and a metonym for provincial city ... By Daniel WeaverAugust 14, 2017
FeaturedNot Just A Guy From Fenyang: Walter Salles’ Portrait of Master Filmmaker Jia ZhangkeThe shifting urban topography and upheaval that has always dominated Jia’s work is revisited by Jia himself ... By Daniel WeaverAugust 5, 2017
Columns‘Absurd Accident’ is a Violent Comedy About Dumb People That Would Make the Coen Brothers ProudLi Yuhe’s "Absurd Accident" is a well-executed exercise in what comic writers have known since Shakespeare: an ... By Daniel WeaverJuly 27, 2017
ColumnsZhang Yang Takes a 1200 km Stroll Through Tibet in the ‘Road’ Movie That Isn’tZhang Yang’s 2015 work, Paths to The Soul, follows a group of Tibetan villagers on a 1200 ... By Daniel WeaverJuly 20, 2017
Columns‘Fly With the Crane’: Li Ruijin’s Colorful Meditation on DeathLao Ma, unlike you, spends most of his time waiting to die. By Daniel WeaverJuly 12, 2017
FeaturedChina’s American Beauty: Zhou Xiaowen’s Tragicomic ‘Ermo’Ermo, Zhou Xiaowen’s 1994 movie, hits all the notes of 1990s China: accelerating collisions between the new ... By Daniel WeaverJuly 7, 2017
FeaturedThe Forgotten (and Fiery) History of MulanDisney's "Mulan" versus Bu Wancang's 1939 "Mulan Joins the Army." One of them resulted in a fiery ... By Daniel WeaverJune 28, 2017
