Sinosphere Film

http://i.imgur.com/RmbAnb3.jpg

New Chen Kaige's out; might try and catch it at a local theatre this weekend w/friends.

http://www.timeoutshanghai.com/features/Books__Film-Film_features/28299/Chen-Kaige-We-havent-learnt-enough-lessons-from-the-Cultural-Revolution.html

Anyone see Caught In The Web? Had no idea it existed; figured I would have seen at least one mention in all the thinkpieces surrounding So You've Been Publicly Shamed, but ...

i've seen it - kind of tough to follow especially if you're not conversant about netizen culture, but good execution and technically competent

i finally saw yellow earth a few weeks ago - there's a part in the middle that's absolutely stunning, with the traditional dancers

http://i.imgur.com/NcC9Yit.jpg

I am watching this one later, from the reviews it sounds pretty damn good.
http://mikelogan.eu/wp-content/gallery/stuff2/l-xdv4zwqpu0l3m4.jpg?i=1634830805

http://i.imgur.com/1BSUK9u.jpg

Can't see anyone's imgur links so soz if this is a repeat; got dragged by local friends out to see 捉妖记 which is smashing all sorts of domestic box-office records. Live action + animation, the radish baby is v.uh toyetic in a way which ties in with the prevalence of Minions + Baymax stuff around GZ, Jiang Wu & Bai Baihe do the best w/their roles ... IDK, haven't been to see a blockbuster-y thing in ages so maybe the p.tired gender stuff is no worse than, IDK, Transformers or w/e, but was wishing I could have snuck into 道士下山. My friends & the local crowd loved it FWIW.

THE BEST OF THE BEIJING INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2012-2014

AUGUST 7 - SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

NEW YORK, NY

http://www.cinemaontheedge.com/#schedule

anyone seen any Beijing fest? the Ai Weiwei doc investigating the activist's death?

http://gilbogarbage.tumblr.com/post/57027553537/wong-kar-wai-as-tears-go-by-was-my-first-film

http://arts.uchicago.edu/event/chinese-opera-film-series-inspector-and-prince-director-zheng-dasheng

saw this today and really liked it

Looks sweet. Was it really from 2004 like that link says, or later? Can you remember who it was made w/? Finding, uh, conflicting information though maybe that's just my illiteracy making sifting through diff productions of 《廉吏于成龙》 harder than it should be.

It's from 2009 I think? idk

it was kinda like watching a filmed shakespeare play but the performances were really good i just vibed with it

Chung Mong-Hong - so Soul was really facile i thought but i liked Parking a lot

ah, planned to catch that tonight but timing didn't work out :-|

was the 'lynchian' descriptor from the write-ups at all accurate?

there was one scene that was maybe lynchian but really it was more like Pulp Fiction x After Hours

hmmm I'll take it. gonna track this one down.

i forgot that fest was, like, 4 films in 2 days

interested in tonight's 9:00 film but not interested in staying til 11:00

http://shihlun.tumblr.com/post/134739602755/tsai-ming-liang-its-a-dream-2007

this tumblr has a lot of good stuf http://goodbyedragoninn.tumblr.com/

Any recs on what piece of popcorn I should see in the cinemas after my Xmas day exam finishes? Soft spot for all the 《恶棍天使》 posters in the metro ...
https://cdramadevotee.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/7c766316-7fd5-49a0-b59e-20218d9974eb_size77_w550_h283.jpg?w=646

https://cdramadevotee.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/list-movies-in-december-2015/

ND/NF fest showing Zhao Liang's new Behemoth in March

http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/first-eight-selections-announced-for-45th-new-directors-new-films/

Saw it at CPH:DOX. Really beautiful pictures. I thought it was a bit too stereotypically European, but then I spoke with someone who lives in China, and he said a lot of filmfans in China were over the moon at how different it seemed from typical Chinese docs.

You all NEED to see Lost & Beautiful, btw. One of very best films of the year.

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheOldvideoo/videos

this account has a bunch of movies uploaded

Saw a real surprise, the 4-and-a-half hour film The Family by Chinese-Australian Liu Shumin. Sorta an expansive Tokyo Story, an elderly couple traveling around China, visiting their kids and revisiting their past. Amateur actors. But wow, at the imagery. Incredible all around. Overlong, but then again, it's a debut. This guy could get big!

Some clips in this video, but no real trailer yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQN38Ps_rZA

http://i.imgur.com/MktGZZb.jpg

Jia's Mountains May Depart opens in NY today.

http://i.imgur.com/D5Cc541.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/33XDPMj.png

http://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1644?locale=en

http://metrograph.com/film/film/209/hibiscus-town

playing today at metrograph, i've seen it and not gonna go

https://thefilmstage.com/news/its-karaoke-time-in-gorgeous-first-clip-from-bi-gans-cannes-premiere-long-days-journey-into-night/

i'm enjoying this chen kaige demon cat movie with kukai solving the murder of yang guifei. two years old but i didn't notice it at the time.

The Wandering Earth looks like some preposterous mad fun from the trailer.

how big is wandering earth in the outside world? pacific rim-type hype or more restrained? the chatter around it has been interesting but i assumed it was like wolf warrior where nobody outside of the prc ever saw it.
i know it'll never show in tokyo and i'll probably end up catching it on an hna flight into beijing some day.

Not seen it mentioned once in Anglosphere media, it was a US/Chinese twitter poster who highlighted it to me.