Category Archives: Film

Let the Spiel Begin
by Geremie R. Barmé

Posted on 2006-07-24 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Zhang Yimou, the Olympics opening ceremony, and a historically positive song and dance epics.

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by Geremie R. Barmé

Crazy Stone and piracy

Posted on 2006-07-21 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Shanghaiist has compiled a report on Crazy Stone (疯狂石头), the low budget Warner Bros. film that is both generating buzz and doing very well at the box office, despite its Sichuan dialect dialogue. Excerpt: Warner Bros. is taking an aggressive … Continue reading →

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Danwei TV: Swedish sailing ships and porcelain in China

Posted on 2006-07-20 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Last year, some of the best and rarest pieces of Qing porcelain from Swedish collections were transported back to China for an exhibition in the Forbidden City. Your correspondent produced a documentary film commissioned by Scandinavian Airlines about the porcelain … Continue reading →

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HD camera thieves on the loose in Hong Kong

Posted on 2006-07-17 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Happy camera thief From Boingboing: We’re a small, independent television production company in Hong Kong… last week, a group of con men ripped off a load of very expensive professional tv gear from us… cameras, tripods, a recording deck, wireless … Continue reading →

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Drunk punks on film in Beijing

Posted on 2006-07-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Kevin Fritz is a young American from Pennsylvania who followed Beijing punk band Joyside around China. He filmed them perform in bars nationwide, their manic tour fueled by huge quantities of beer. The documentary that resulted is called Wasted Orient. … Continue reading →

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European filmmakers in Shanghai get confused

Posted on 2006-06-27 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Xinhua has published a story on their English wesbite called European filmmakers eye Chinese market. Well hello there European fimmakers, why don’t you eye these: Non-violent Resistance: After Short-lived Hit Run, Da Vinci Code Banished from Chinese Theaters Danwei: Mission … Continue reading →

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A Chinese Da Vinci Code

Posted on 2006-06-15 by Joel Martinsen

Translation of a Da Vinci Code spoof concerning Tang Bohu (唐伯虎密码) by (敢笑不下流).

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Mission Impossible III delayed until pirates can release high quality DVDs

Posted on 2006-05-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

From Jonathan Landreth of the Hollywood Reporter: Car chases, gunfights delay “M:I-3” China bow Chinese censors have demanded that car chases and gun battles in Shanghai be cut from “Mission: Impossible III” before it can screen locally, industry executives and … Continue reading →

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Print and Internet media woes

Posted on 2006-05-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

China’s Internet portals are not allowed to gather their own news, so since the start of the dot com boom, they have republished news stories from state-owned news agency Xinhua, and from China’s thousands of newspapers. The newspapers have been … Continue reading →

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Tom Cruise tarnishes Shanghai’s image?

Posted on 2006-05-15 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Xinhua reports on Mission Impossible III and Shanghai’s hypersensitivity: Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible III” may find it impossible to enter China market The much-anticipated film “Mission: Impossible III” may be kept out of China for “tarnishing the image of Shanghai,” Shanghai-based … Continue reading →

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