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Art College 1994 (Liu Jian, 2023)
Liu Jian

Art College 1994 (Liu Jian, 2023)

I wrote about Liu Jian’s Have a Nice Day back when it played the Seattle International Film Festival in 2017. Thanks to SIFF’s arcane embargo policies, I was limited to exactly 75 words. Here they are: The second feature from director Liu Jian is an animated network-noir that
28 Apr 2024 4 min read
A Writer’s Odyssey (Lu Yang, 2021)
Lu Yang

A Writer’s Odyssey (Lu Yang, 2021)

Given the number of effects-driven fantasy wuxia films that have come out in China in recent years, and the general mediocrity of the ones I’ve seen, I was a little wary of diving into the latest film from Brotherhood of Blades director Lu Yang. But A Writer’s Odyssey
28 Feb 2021 3 min read
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