Berlin is a lucky place for Chinese director Wang Quanan, who took home a Golden Bear Award for his drama Tuya’s Marriage in 2006 and a Silver Bear for the screenplay of the movie Apart Together in 2010. Just two days ago, his new movie White Deer Plain was ... Read More
If you’re going to venture out to one movie this winter, go see the latest Mission Impossible. Plenty of action series lose steam by the fourth installment, but Mission Impossible―Ghost Protocol actually makes for a spectacular cinematic experience that happens to be the franchise’s best so far ... Read More
China’s first sex shop comedy, Red Light Revolution,
recently participated in a slew of film fest globally and nabbed several awards. Now the controversial and hilarious film is available to all of China, albeit sans English subtitling. Consider it good Chinese practice.
It premiered on Tudou last week and ... Read More
From the title, you can guess Wu Na’s Song and Moon is about romance. If your knowledge of putonghua and Chinese minorities is up to speed, you’ll also pick up on the film’s Chinese title, Xing Ge Zuo Yue (行歌坐月), which refers to a set of ancient ... Read More
North Korea may be bewailing the loss of Dear Leader now, but next year Koryo Tours says they'll be back taking tourists into one of the most mysterious countries on the planet. Just in case you can't take their tours (or you're South Korean), check out Koryo ... Read More
This is Zhang Yimou's big production. This is China's big Oscar hope. And with Christian Bale as John Miller, it's the biggest Hollywood star ever to play a China expat (though we haven't seen the Kevin Spacey vehicle Inseparable yet).
Critics are mixed about this film ... Read More
Christian Bale was turned away from visiting blind activist Chen Guangcheng ... with fists.
Bale invited a CNN team on his visit to Chen's house to raise awareness about the lawyer who gained fame (and notoriety with the government) for his advocacy on behalf of victims of China's family-planning ... Read More
Robert Ong curates submissions for local indie film group Electric Shadows. Currently, he has 250 films to sift through, with everything from a Pashtun music video to a passionate (maybe) Bulgarian romance. Interested in helping out? Join in by subscribing to the Electric Shadows email list at electricshadows.bj@gmail ... Read More
First-time director Lu Sheng set out to make a film about love, but what he ended up with was a story about the keen sense of ennui and melancholy that accompanies loss.
Here, There tells three interconnected stories crossing three generations. A man who raises reindeer in the mountains of ... Read More
Spring Festival comes early this year, so the local film industry is racing to get their movies out to meet the crowds. We've picked out the hottest movies that will grace the big screen this winter.
Zhang Yimou’s The Flowers of War (金陵十三钗) is the most highly anticipated ... Read More
In advance of the UCCA film showcase, we interviewed Apichatpong Weerasethakul on the Thai film industry, what Thai films he recommends and the dream-like quality to his body of work.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul is Thailand’s most internationally recognized filmmaker. He has produced a considerable number of shorts, videos and installation ... Read More
ChinaGeeks blogger Charles Custer has been busy filming a documentary about the awful practice of child trafficking, which came to public notice after a series of high-profile rescues on Weibo earlier this year. Though media attention has waned, the fact is that child kidnapping is still a serious problem here ... Read More
Though many will know him best from his controversial Palme d’Or winning “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has long been on the radar of the international film scene. A showcase of the groundbreaking auteur's films is happening at the UCCA ... Read More
Carol Liu has made a moving documentary film about visually impaired people living in one of the poorest regions of China. She's screening her film, Restoring the Light, next Tuesday at the American Chamber of Commerce in China.
When did you know you wanted to tell this story? I ... Read More
Life is full of unexpected sorrows, and audiences have a hard time forgetting those of Nynima, the protagonist of Sonthar Gyal’s The Sun Beaten Path. Based on a true story, this is a film about redemption. It opens with Nynima, a young Tibetan, driving a new tractor, en route ... Read More
After all the hype around the Transformers earlier this year, it’s nice to see an offering that brings us back to the human world, if only in part. Adapted from American sci-fi author Richard Matheson’s 1956 short story “Steel,” this mix of boxing, robots and father-son relationship struggles ... Read More
While the classic sci-fi film Planet of the Apes showed us what would happen if apes ran the world, the prequel Rise of the Planet of the Apes shows us how these animals got hold of the world in the first place. Directed by Rupert Wyatt, whose first film The ... Read More
We were sad about the (forced) cancellation of the 8th annual China Documentary Week last May--and worried that the same thing would happen to the Beijing Independent Film Festival. But due to the grit of local filmmakers (and perhaps some secrecy as to the venue), the 6th annual Beijing Independent ... Read More
Project manager Xing Yu tells us what to expect at the Beijing International Movie Festival, going on at various venues around Beijing through Oct. 18. This weekend's activities are at Marriot Hotel Northeast from 6:30pm. Check out the entire schedule at www.beijingfilmfest.org. Entrance is free.
Which ... Read More
It might be too soon to think winter, but that's not stopping MellowParks.cn from screening two Chinese snowboarding movies this Saturday from 7pm. There's going to be free beer and chuan'r (a valid reason to show up anywhere, we think) and chances to win snowboarding gear ... Read More
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