China Film Journal

華語電影刊

Art House Confidential: A Night at the Museum

Posted on October 23rd by philip.
Earlier this year, we prefaced our interview of a rising star in film with the provocative title, The World is Not Enough: Has Jia Zhangke Permanently Left the Art House? I should hope ...

Film Review: Fujian Blue (金碧辉煌)

Posted on October 9th by philip.
The feature film debut of Robin Weng Shou-ming (翁首鸣), Fujian Blue follows a group of disaffected, purposeless souls who spend their time blackmailing middle-aged women and clubbing away their twenties. Such ...

Tailor Made: Chinatown’s Last Tailors

Posted on March 21st by philip.
Hidden in plain view among the abundant offerings of this year's San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (which runs from March 13 to 23) was a program of four short ...