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Journey to the West

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The Monkey King 3 (Soi Cheang, 2018)

The Monkey King 3 (Soi Cheang, 2018)

The latest in director Soi Cheang’s saga inspired by the classic novel Journey to the West might be the strangest one yet. The franchise blockbuster has always been a weird fit for the former director of indie horror movies and slick crime dramas, and Cheang’s first Monkey King

Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang, 2014)

Tsai Ming-liang

Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang, 2014)

When I was young, in the first half of the 1980s, whenever I committed some minor childhood infraction, my punishment (this being before the adoption of the “timeout” lingo) was to stand facing a wall for some indeterminate amount of time, usually around ten minutes, which of course felt like

Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (Stephen Chow & Derek Kwok, 2013)

Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (Stephen Chow & Derek Kwok, 2013)

I see a lot of complaints that this, the latest from Stephen Chow, is “no Kung Fu Hustle (or Shaolin Soccer)” which, yeah sure, it’s a different kind of movie than those. Those were the culmination of 15 years of Chow’s comedy style, which burst on the scene

Emperor Visits the Hell (Luo Li, 2012)

Emperor Visits the Hell (Luo Li, 2012)

The Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema at the Vancouver International Film Festival has an illustrious history. Handed out every year since 1994, previous winners include such now-vitally important filmmakers as Hong Sangsoo, Jia Zhangke, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Liu Jiayin, Lee Changdong, and Wisit Sasanatieng. Winning the award this year,