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Film Review: Fujian Blue (金碧辉煌)
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 ...
Film Review: The Moss
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 ...
Jia Zhangke makes environment-related short film
The United Nations has sponsored some public awareness films from 20 prominent filmmakers and artists, and Jia Zhangke was one of them. Out of the several themes the directors could choose ...
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 ...
John Woo: Red Cliff must go on…
Browsing Eachnet for headlines I came across some news regarding an accidental fire on the set of John Woo's upcoming historical action film Red Cliff. One person died and six were ...
Jia Zhangke, Jet Li, and the Sichuan Earthquake
A quick post about some earthquake and film related news: first off, Jia Zhangke, at the Cannes Film Festival where his new film 24 City was recently screened, lead a moment ...
Vision Shanghai, Hong Kong Phooey, Tang Wei, and other movie news
Do films with titles like "Feathers of Dongtan" and "Sounds. Breaths" give you a tingle in your special area? If not, fret not, there's still some time to develop that acquired taste ...
Chinese movies don’t make much money…?
Chinese movies don't make any money: or at least, the only directors that make money are Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaoggang, says one real-estate investor who also dabbles in the media. This ...
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 ...