Caught by the Tides ★★★½
During the COVID-19 pandemic, China had one of the strictest responses to the virus. Through implementing community screening, quarantines, andContinue Reading
Tag: China
Berlinale 2025: Wrap-Up, Award Winners & Highlights
I’ve been attending the Berlin International Film Festival in a semi-professional capacity for six years now, and if there’s oneContinue Reading
What We’re Watching – August 2024
Films from Chang Cheh and Edward Yang make up our What We’re Watching this month along with an exciting popcornContinue Reading
What We’re Watching – June 2023
Asian cinema takes the forefront in June’s edition of our What We’re Watching column, comprising four of the five filmsContinue Reading
What We’re Watching – February 2023
Stylish, experimental and genre filmmaking take the focus in this month’s What We’re Watching. Here we have a bit ofContinue Reading
The Films of Zhang Yimou
Zhang Yimou holds an impressive place within cinema, one of only a few auteurs to direct films that excel bothContinue Reading
Cinematic Time Travel in Lumière and Company
What kind of films would Stanley Kubrick have made if modern CGI was at his disposal? What would Tarkovsky haveContinue Reading
Generational Trauma in Ju Dou
The Cultural Revolution in China was a sociopolitical movement spearheaded by Mao Tse-tung that aimed to purge all levels ofContinue Reading
Commemorating the Foreign Language Nominees for Best Picture
After almost one hundred years since the first Academy Awards ceremony, Bong Joon-ho‘s Parasite became the first foreign language film toContinue Reading
Film Favorites From 2019
We look back at a number of our favorite films from 2019. This is by no means a ‘best of’Continue Reading
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