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Subjects for Further Research in post-revolution Mainland Chinese Cinema

Girl Students' Dormitory (Shi Shujun, 1983)

Girl Students' Dormitory (Shi Shujun, 1983)

Just concluded at the BAM in New York was a very cool series of films that were set and filmed in Wuhan. Programmed by CineCina’s Frank Yan, the series explored different aspects of the city that’s become notable in recent years as the epicenter of the COVID pandemic.

A Writer’s Odyssey (Lu Yang, 2021)

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

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Wang Xiaoshuai: Chinese Portrait (2018) — June 12, 2019 The highest profile director in the 2019 Austin Asian American Film Festival⁠ is probably Wang Xiaoshuai, a key figure of the Sixth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, but nonetheless one whom I only know from his cameo in Jia Zhangke’s The World.

Three Sisters (Wang Bing, 2012)

Three Sisters (Wang Bing, 2012)

By nine o’clock on Tuesday, October 5th, 2012, my VIFF experience was four days and fifteen movies old. I trepidatiously settled in for movie #16, a two and a half hour verite-style documentary about three poor kids in China by acclaimed director Wang Bing (his nine hour documentary West