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A New Home
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A New Home

Welcome to the new home for The Chinese Cinema. This is a project that began life almost ten years ago, when I was so smitten with Sammo Hung that I started a deep dive into Hong Kong cinema called the "Summer of Sammo [https://theendofcinema.net/2013/07/01/summer-of-sammo-index/
Feb 12, 2022 1 min read
Why “The Chinese Cinema”?
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Why “The Chinese Cinema”?

The question of why I named this project “The Chinese Cinema” and not something else has come up more than once since I adopted the name in 2017. The objection is that it flattens out the very real cultural, cinematic and political distinctions between the People’s Republic of China,
Jul 20, 2020 7 min read
The Chinese Cinema
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The Chinese Cinema

Four years ago, in the spring of 2013, I caught a particularly vicious strain of cinephilia. I’d been a guest on the They Shot Pictures podcast a couple of times, talking about Josef von Sternberg, Yasujiro Ozu and Mikio Naruse, and we decided to sneak in an episode on
Mar 7, 2017 3 min read
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