Filmmakers Violet Columbus and Ben Klein reopen one of the most tightly sealed boxes from China’s collective consciousness — the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre — to consider what it means to be Chinese.
Zhang Yimou's "Snipers," which Zhang co-directed with his daughter Zhang Mo, is basically last year’s Korean War blockbuster "The Battle at Lake Changjin" on a smaller scale — less bombastic, but employing more or less the same formula.
An interview with director Li Ruijun.
"A New Old Play" is acclaimed Chinese director Qiu Jiongjiong's first fiction film. In it, he shines as a theater and film director in equal measures, balancing the honesty of the stage with an ambitious technical refinement that has made the film a festival favorite over the last year.
Shao Yihui's romantic comedy set in idealized Shanghai was the highest-rated movie in 2021 on Douban.
Following three middle-class Beijing families and their kids’ enthusiasm for ice hockey, Liu Hanxiang’s documentary is a meditation on the role of parents in today’s China.
Eight kung fu classics from Taiwanese director Joseph Kuo are scheduled for screening this week as part of the 9th Old School Kung Fu Fest in New York. The films have been restored in 2K.
Herman Yau's blockbuster begins with a mini-nuke blowing up the Hong Kong airport. In case you weren't aware what you were watching, this is a film about explosions: either those that happen or those that threaten to.
'Found' offers an on-the-ground, humanistic look at China through the eyes of three teenage adoptees.
Censored and pulled from the Berlin International Film Festival in 2019, Zhang Yimou's "One Second" recently closed the Toronto International Film Festival to rave reviews.