China Film Journal

華語電影刊

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Chen Kaige wins the Kurosawa Award/Mei Lanfang MV released

Posted on October 26th by peijin.
I am not quite sure how to feel about this: Nikita Mikhalkov of Russia and Chen Kaige of China (who is a US citizen, I believe) have won the
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Film Review: The Equation of Love and Death (李米的猜想)

Posted on October 26th by peijin.
Zhou Xun plays Li Mi, a plucky Kunming cab driver secretly nursing a broken heart and obsession—the man she loved disappeared four years ago and their one-way line of communication are the ...
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RIP Xie Jin

Posted on October 19th by peijin.
The famed Chinese film director died on October 18 at the age of 85. The International Herald Tribune said this about Xie's life during the Cultural Revolution. <blockquote>Xie himself ...
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Film Review: The Moss

Posted on September 16th by peijin.
Squat - The Moss via kwout Unfortunately, we haven't had enough time to devote to this website. I wrote a review that appeared on Batgwa/Squat, which you can read by clicking ...
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Movie Review: Help Me Eros (幫幫我愛神)

Posted on July 10th by peijin.
Anyone familiar with Tsai Ming Liang's work is going to understand and find faimilair the miasma of neon alienatoin which envelops the entirety of the "Help me Eros." People who are familiar ...

轉載: 我的围城时代

Posted on July 6th by peijin.
剛看了一個豆瓣上對《圍城》的影評。。。其實筆者談的不是電影而是自己的跟電影情節相似·的經歷。看來 這部電影能引起的共鳴不限于香港人而是所有目睹過青少年對彼此的殘酷。 I surfed across this randomly when looking for stuff relating to the film Besieged City. I thought this person would write about film, but it was more like the film inspired ...

Movie Review: Besieged City (圍城)

Posted on July 6th by peijin.
If you're a fan of the "gutter-trawling" alienated youths genre of film, you should find this one enjoyable: and I did not intend to be ironic there, because ...
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Peng Tao, Wait and 〈血蝉〉

Posted on June 24th by peijin.
彭韬凭《血蝉》获亚洲数码录像银奖 王小帅颁奖_影音娱乐_新浪网 via kwout《血蝉》(Xue Chan/Little Moth) is a film about a girl that gets sold into slavery, joining one of those large beggars' rings that anyone that's spent any time ...