Category Archives: Film

Taxi vs Taxi

Two films about Beijing taxi drivers have some remarkable similarities.

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Fan Lixin’s Last Train Home: why film unhappy things?

Canadian citizen Fan Lixin (范立欣) has made a documentary that spans the years 2007 to 2009, focusing on an old couple’s journey back to Guang’an city, Huilong village (回龙村) in Sichuan from the factories of Guangzhou. The documentary, made with over one million dollars in funding, will have wide release in foreign countries…

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SARFT responds to Avatar rumors

Zhang Hongsen from the Film Bureau says it’s all just a misunderstanding.

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Avatar ousted to make way for Confucius?

Notice says that the China Film Group has ordered Avatar pulled from screens starting January 23.

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The Storm Warriors is awesome. You just don’t realize it yet!

A full-page ad in today’s paper explains a few confusing things about the film.

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Tian Zhuangzhuang: The film world as mafia and commerical models of film

Time Weekly interviews Tian Zhuangzhuang about his new film The Warrior and the Wolf, in which he talked about commercialism of films in China, the film industry as a kind of mafia and the lacking of a master film in China.

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Beijing Queer Film Festival

An interview by Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn with two of the organizers of Beijing’s fourth Queer Film Festival that took place this summer. Shot and edited by Patrick Carr of Mandarin Film.

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“What makes the most profit? Risk does.” China Film Group CEO interview with Southern Weekly

Han Sanping, the CEO of China Film Group, is extensively interviewed by Southern Weekly about overwhelming statics, creating a “dialogue” with Americans and their film industry, and how the State apparatus supports the making of movies and fostering of young directors in China.

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Human flesh search engine film, part two

The second part of Human Flesh Search Engine, a short documentary film directed by Luis A. Tapia.

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What do stars having a meeting look like? On Founding of a Republic and Ye Daying’s Tian’anmen

Movie directors and stars came together to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic. Two films, Tian’anmen (天安门) and The Founding of a Republic (建国大业) have been presented almost like “gifts” to the State for the anniversary.

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