Film Column

Five Hong Kong Horror Films to Check Out this Halloween

From the scary to the absurd to the grotesque — five fine HK horror flicks to track ...

By Daniel WeaverOctober 30, 2017

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

By Daniel WeaverOctober 3, 2017

Jia's film "Still Life" drowns in a particular type of hopelessness against which its characters struggle, one ...

By Daniel WeaverAugust 21, 2017

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

By Daniel WeaverAugust 14, 2017

The shifting urban topography and upheaval that has always dominated Jia’s work is revisited by Jia himself ...

By Daniel WeaverAugust 5, 2017

Li Yuhe’s "Absurd Accident" is a well-executed exercise in what comic writers have known since Shakespeare: an ...

By Daniel WeaverJuly 27, 2017

Zhang Yang’s 2015 work, Paths to The Soul, follows a group of Tibetan villagers on a 1200 ...

By Daniel WeaverJuly 20, 2017

Lao Ma, unlike you, spends most of his time waiting to die.

By Daniel WeaverJuly 12, 2017

Ermo, Zhou Xiaowen’s 1994 movie, hits all the notes of 1990s China: accelerating collisions between the new ...

By Daniel WeaverJuly 7, 2017

Disney's "Mulan" versus Bu Wancang's 1939 "Mulan Joins the Army." One of them resulted in a fiery ...

By Daniel WeaverJune 28, 2017