Things categorized as 'Commentary'
Taiwanese film Cape No. 7 approved for Chinese theaters
I read in the news recently that this sensitive film has been vetted by Chinese censors and will show in the theaters here in mainland China. That is good news for ...
Art House Confidential: A Night at the Museum
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 ...
轉載： 我的围城时代
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 ...
Peng Tao, Wait and 〈血蝉〉
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 ...
Movie Review:《哭泣的女人》/Cry Woman/Les Larmes de Madame Wang
We saw this movie in the theater, in Paris, which it seems is one of the only places where this movie could be seen on the big screen other than at film ...
Constant Muse: Jia Zhangke’s leading lady Zhao Tao
In the World 世界, actress Zhao Tao 赵涛 plays a dancer at an "international" theme park, which means that one day she performs in India and the next in Africa. That role ...
Is the film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking any good?
I did see Nanking, which was nothing special, biut was more looking forward to seeing this Canadian film Iris Chang: The Rape of ...
Opinion: Ang Lee, Lust, Caution and the Chinese media
Director Ang Lee, perhaps frustrated and angered by the recent ban of Tang Wei and spate of criticism leveled against his movie, has reacted by publcily defending Tang Wei — as well ...
Children of Huangshi and Three Kingdoms pass censors
Well, we think so. The question is whether or not they were even re-summoned to the censors in the first place. After what happened to Tang Wei over her Lust, ...