Category Archives: Film

Oscar season means good pirate DVDs

Posted on 2007-02-15 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The Me Old China website notes: Awards season is the most wonderful time of year in Shanghai, when every bootleg DVD is crystal clear and we don’t have to wait three months for a good copy of “The Queen.” Columbia, … Continue reading →

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Discovering Anna May Wong – Sexy Beijing

Posted on 2007-02-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

In this episode of Sexy Beijing, Su Fei explores the life of the sexiest Chinese American woman ever to grace the silver screen: Anna May Wong (黄柳霜). Born to a Chinese laundryman’s family in 1905 in Los Angeles, she went … Continue reading →

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Sex and manufactured scandal: The Blood Sex Tape

Posted on 2007-01-24 by Robert Ness

A hoax film ‘Blood Sex Video’ (流血的黄色录象): a documentary crew accompanies Liu Zhimin on his bloody quest for vengeance when his girlfriend falls to her death after the couple’s sex tape is released on the Internet.

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An end to costume epics?

Posted on 2007-01-19 by Joel Martinsen

SARFT moves to discourage historical blockbusters in China in 2007.

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Sexy New Pants Chinese version 性感新裤子中文版

Posted on 2007-01-17 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The latest episode of Sexy Beijing is now available with Chinese subtitles: it’s an interview by Su Fei with Beijing band New Pants guitarist, filmmaker and toy store owner Peng Lei. Watch it below or on Tudou. The English version … Continue reading →

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Sexy New Pants

Posted on 2007-01-16 by Jeremy Goldkorn

New Pants, a new-wave punk band, has its guitarist interviewed by Su Fei for Sexy Beijing.

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Chinese-language film wiki launches

Posted on 2007-01-14 by Joel Martinsen

CineWiki (中文电影维基), an ambitious project that aims to be a Chinese-language encyclopedia of film, formally launched on 28 December, 2006.

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Ways of looking at Curse of the Golden Flower

Posted on 2007-01-14 by Joel Martinsen

A taxonomy of Chinese film critic responses to Zhang Yimou’s new movie, as created by Raymond Zhou (周黎明). Also, reviews by Dou Jiangming (钭江明) and Li Yi (李翼).

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Ice and politics in Curse of the Golden Flower

Posted on 2007-01-14 by Joel Martinsen

Blogger Lao Huang (老晃) obliquely ties Zhang Yimou’s new Curse of the Golden Flower to the Fourth of June. Taiwan media picks it up. Panic ensues.

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007 vs Man in Black

Posted on 2007-01-11 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Internet star video maker Hu Ge has released an entertaining new video (found via Shanghaiist). Hu is best known for his Internet video spoof of Chen Kaige’s movie The Promise (see ESWN and Danwei for more about the affair). This … Continue reading →

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