Category Archives: Film

John Rabe in Nanjing’s city of life and death

Blogger reviews of City of Life and Death and John Rabe.

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Jia Zhangke in The New Yorker

Jia Zhangke video and links.

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Exploiting Confucius for fun and profit

An op-ed in the Beijing Daily argues for a detached treatment of Confucius rather than the deification or exploitation that will likely be used.

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Sex and violence in mainland Chinese cinemas

Mou Tun Fei’s The Men Behind the Sun, an exploitation film about Japan’s infamous Unit 731 that because Hong Kong’s first Category III movie, was shown in theaters on the mainland.

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Film ratings system “news” is a five-year-old interview

An article quoting Film Bureau director Tong Gang about an upcoming film ratings system is a fake.

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China Clipper 1936

A trailer for the 1936 film China Clipper, based on the true story of Pan American Airlines, and released only a year after the first transpacific flight in history.

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Pirate queen of the China seas

A trailer for 1951 movie China Corsair: “Lovely to kiss, deadly to cross, she’s the pirate queen of the China seas”.

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Film: Mongolian scuba diving in Beijing, green China in New York

Two interesting film screenings in Beijing and New York.

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Faster than instant noodles

A blog for aficionados of Chinese film and art:

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Documentary screening: Children of the Stars

A documentary about the autism school and the kids is going to be screened

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