Chinese historical drama - Mulan - Legendary Warrior movie review here - https://wp.me/p2mMDp-74K

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Chinese action drama - Born To Fly - movie review here - https://wp.me/p2mMDp-73T

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Chinese romantic drama - Love Never Ends - movie review here - https://wp.me/p2mMDp-72c

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Wang Chao's steely drama charts an ordinary worker's path through the Cultural Revolution and gradual disillusionment with Maoism before achieving her dreams of becoming a novelist in a new China. https://wp.me/p1x9li-jAK

Screening as part of this year's New York Asian Film Festival.

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The enduring friendship between three women is strained by the demands of the contemporary society in the big screen sequel to the hit TV drama, Delicious Romance. https://wp.me/p1x9li-jcx

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Chinese comedy thriller - Absurd Accident - movie review here - https://wp.me/p2mMDp-6V0

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The heartrending tale of a faithful dog who continued to wait for his owner at a cable car station becomes a poignant symbol for a left behind China in Xu’s Ang’s reimagining of the 1987 Japanese film, Hachiko. https://wp.me/p1x9li-jbj

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Fantasy and reality begin to blur for a jobbing actor suddenly offered the lead in an experimental hitman movie in Xing Wenxiong's take on Koki Mitani's The Magic Hour, Too Cool to Kill. https://wp.me/p1x9li-j2r

Now available digitally;;y in the US courtesy of Well Go USA

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Chinese martial arts spin-off - Young Ip Man: Crisis Time - movie review here - https://wp.me/p2mMDp-6QV

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Chinese drama - Hidden Blade - movie review here - https://wp.me/p2mMDp-6PY

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So just back from seeing this at the annual silent movie festival in Bo’ness - Loving blood of the volcano (1932) dir Sun Yu. A story of good defeats evil set in warlord era China. Interesting to see the tropes of the rich and powerful riding roughshod over the weak, hostage taking, violence, threats, vengeance against oppressors, pretty timeless. Live music by Stephen Horne was fantastic.

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Spanning 15 years of the recent tumultuous Chinese history and the world over (from The Berlin Wall, Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong Handover to Iraq), #SummerPalace tells a story of young love. It starts as Yu Hong from Tumen, a small town near Chinese-North Korean border, gets an acceptance letter from Beijing University. After settling into a cramped but lively dormitory life, she befriends Li Ti and falls madly in love with Zhou Wei. Their relationship is rocky and full of drama and involves lots of screwing. Even though not overtly political, their youthful energy explodes at the Tiananmen Square and quickly dissipates. #LouYe, along with his cinematographer Hua Qing, captures intimate moments of the bustling youth scene during the pivotal moments in China. For the characters, their lives have been altered forever and they will never be able to duplicate their friendship, their love. It's Lou's homage to his generation which endured all these changes. #tianenmensquare #chinesecinema

An epic melodrama spanning 17 years, #JiaZhangke's new film, #AshisPurestWhite, harkens back to the Chinese auteur's earlier films. I say this not just because it mostly takes place in Shangxi province (the director's home province where he made 3 of his early films), but also because he abandons the episodic/omnibus storytelling of Touch of Sin and Mountains May Depart, two of his last films. Instead, he concentrates on a long and arduous relationship between Qiao and Bin. Ash is a full-on (un)sentimental melodrama in epic scale. It's perhaps Jia's most down to earth, character study work. The long stretch in the middle gains more poignancy as the film goes along and afterwords. Some people reinvent themselves along with the changing times and some people don't. Some things in them though, remain the same. Jia expertly juxtaposes these conundrums, reflecting the soul of a changing nation. Ash is the Purest White is a deep, poignant masterpiece from a seasoned filmmaker. #chinesecinema

The Three Gorges Dam, the largest man-made project in human history, has become a symbol of China's ambition to be a global superpower where some sacrifices are regarded as inevitable. Sound of hammering and sentimental pop ballads always in the background, Still Life's new urban development against picturesque mountains is nothing but still. It concerns two relationships being tested - the human cost of changing times. However small and trivial, Jia applies communal activities to connect people, dividing the film in to separate chapters - Cigarettes, Liquor, Tea and Toffee. Still Life, another one of his carefully composed, thoughtful narrative/doc hybrid on changing times in China, is very good indeed. #stilllife #jiazhangke #zhaotao #chinesecinema

#MountainsMayDepart might be #jiazhangke’s most melodramatic film to date, but it's any less great than his other films in chronicling the rapidly changing Chinese society. His hometown Fenyang is once again the backdrop - vast flat area of upturned earth and old ruins. His choice of different aspect ratio for each decade isn’t gimmicky or overstated. His muse/wife Zhao Tao might be a little too old to play 26 year old woman in the first part of the film. Jia's first hit Platform came out in 2000 & Zhao was in her early 20s then. But as many Asian women, she doesn’t crack. It’s more important to see her to show that they have weathered the tumultuous time together, that they are sharing that collective experience w/the audience. It's like predisposed collective melancholy that will hit China like tidal waves in the near future. Poignant and sad, Mountains is another great film from the modern master. #chinesecinema

I am informed by my students that this is called BDE.

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An Elephant Sitting Still, dir Hu Bo (2018)

I didn't want to watch films anymore after having seen this one. It had such an impact that I didn't want to stain my memories of it with memories of other films. Those four hours did something to me, and it became my guide during the writing process of my book "Human Condition(s) - An aesthetic of cinematic slowness".

Hu Bo is greatly missed 😔

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Another gif for today's discussion of masculinity in The Way of the Dragon:

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The Way of the Dragon remains wonderful and hilarious and brilliant and bad. I love it.

I still don't know what's up with the kitten though.

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Getting ready to watch The Way of the Dragon for the cinema class. I can't wait to hear what the students have to say about this one.

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