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Zhou Dongyu

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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
2023 Fall Festival Compilation
Strange Tales

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
15 Mar 2024 21 min read
This Is Not What I Expected (Derek Hui, 2017)
Derek Hui

This Is Not What I Expected (Derek Hui, 2017)

One of two romantic comedies that tried and failed to unseat the powerhouse Fast & the Furious 8 at the Chinese box office this past May Day weekend, This Is Not What I Expected opens here on Friday, a week after its counterpart Love Off the Cuff. It’s a
02 May 2017 3 min read
Soulmate (Derek Tsang, 2016)
Derek Tsang

Soulmate (Derek Tsang, 2016)

A young woman, Ansheng, is tasked by her boss with tracking down the author of an in-progress serialized web novel, as their company would like to option it for a movie adaptation. (This is a thing that happens: the best film of 2014, Fruit Chan’s The Midnight After (now
22 Sep 2016 3 min read
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