Category Archives: Film

Announcement: Chinese film producers wanted for cooperation

Brainwave Pictures Europe B.V. is a Dutch based motion picture production company with extensive contacts with book publishers throughout Europe. These publishers are willing and able to participate in the production of movies. Best selling books are already on the … Continue reading →

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Why Feng Xiaogang shot such a lame Banquet

Feng Xiaogang’s ‘The Banquet’ gets the spoof treatment, SARFT criticizes Lou Ye’s aesthetic sensibility after banning him for five years, The Opposite End of China talks about progress in Xinjiang, and Wang Xiarou writes about bathhouses.

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Rui’an protests documented online

Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources. High school blues Videos of Rui’an protests Short videos of clashes between protesters and armed police in Rui’an are circulating … Continue reading →

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Three Gorges movie wins Golden Lion

Still Life (三峡好人) by Jia Zhangke (贾樟柯), and Xinhua’s buisness wire service regulations.

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Who’s doing the censoring, exactly?

Lou Ye gets banned from filmmaking, and workers in a Beijing film processing plant confiscate copies of a movie they think is too sexy.

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Special forces cops

Special forces, Bullog, press freedom, and Shaolin.

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Production troubles on a community DV shoot

The movie ‘How can I rescue you, my daughter’ runs into trouble shooting in the Tiantongyuan community in Beijing.

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The General Administration of Anxiety about Radio, Film and TV

‘Sanlian Life Week’ contributing editor Wang Xiaofeng’s short blog essay about the new rules issued by the State Administration of Radio, TV and Film (SARFT) that seek to control online video.

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The benefits of piracy
by Kaiser Kuo

Piracy as a window on the western world.

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Disappearing Shanghai

Shu Haolun is a documentary fimmaker from Shanghai. His family has an old house in Da Zhongli, one of Shanghai’s oldest neighborhoods. The family has lived there for three generations. When he heard the news that the neighborhood faced “urban … Continue reading →

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