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2023 Fall Festival Compilation

2023 Fall Festival Compilation

As I put together in 2022 and again for last Spring, here is a collection of the reviews I wrote for InReview Online's coverage of various film festivals from around the world. For publication here, the reviews have been re-edited and occasionally expanded. Check out the rest of

2023 Spring Festival Compilation

2023 Spring Festival Compilation

As I put together last year, here is a collection of the reviews I wrote for InReview Online's coverage of various film festivals from around the world so far this year. Check out the rest of the festival coverage at the site, they've got a lot

2022 Spring/Summer Festival Compilation

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2022 Spring/Summer Festival Compilation

The Best of the Martial Arts Films (Sandra Weintraub, 1990)

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The Best of the Martial Arts Films (Sandra Weintraub, 1990)

Notes Towards a Voting Guide for Chinese Language Film in the 2022 Sight & Sound Poll

Notes Towards a Voting Guide for Chinese Language Film in the 2022 Sight & Sound Poll

It’s Sight & Sound Poll season, that time once a decade when the venerable British film magazine polls critics and filmmakers from around the world to create a list of the Great Films of All-Time. Last time around, the poll made headlines when Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo replaced longtime

Both Sides Now: Women in Chinese Film at the DC Chinese Film Festival

Both Sides Now: Women in Chinese Film at the DC Chinese Film Festival

This weekend, the (Washington) DC Chinese Film Festival [http://www.dccff.org/schedule.html], in partnership with The One International Women's Film Festival, presents a mini-festival focused on women in Chinese Cinema called “On Both Sides of the Camera” focusing on Chinese films by and/or about women.

Notes on Filmspotting’s Contemporary Chinese Cinema Marathon

Notes on Filmspotting’s Contemporary Chinese Cinema Marathon

A few weeks ago, Adam and Josh at the Filmspotting [https://www.filmspotting.net/] podcast invited me to help curate a selection of 2010s Chinese-language movies for them to talk about on their show. I was more than happy to help, as I’ve been a fan of the show

150 of the Best Chinese-Language Films of All-Time

I’ve been doing some cataloguing lately, trying to organize my books and movies and make some kind of plan for how I’m going to attack the Chinese Cinema over the next year or so. Three and a half years ago, I started a chronological Johnnie To project [https:

The 50 Best Chinese Language Films of the 21st Century

When Film4 published a list of their “100 Must-See Films of the 21st Century [http://www.film4.com/special-features/top-lists/100-must-see-films-21st-century] ” and only bothered to include two Chinese films (Yi yi and In the Mood for Love , of course), I countered with this list on letterboxd of 100 Must-See Chinese

Chinese Cinema Today

Chinese Cinema Today

A couple months ago I was asked to write this brief overview of the state of contemporary Chinese language cinema for the Estonian arts magazine Sirp [http://www.sirp.ee/]. You can read this essay in Estonian on their website [http://www.sirp.ee/s1-artiklid/film/merineitsi-kasvaja-ja-varisevad-maed/], and here, with