The Great Wall (movie 2016) review: Matt Damon and Zhang Yimou’s Sino-American monster thriller gives globalization a bad name. Also in the cast: Jing Tian and Pedro Pascal.
Chinese | Taiwanese | Hong Kong Cinema
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The Cave of the Silken Web (movie 1927) review: Long thought lost Chinese blockbuster remains intriguing thanks to its focus on some fierce women.
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Song of the Fishermen (movie 1934) review: Cai Chusheng drama depicts the dehumanizing results of China’s stratified class system.
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Zhang Ziyi: Actress Tops Golden Horse Awards
12 minutes readZhang Ziyi: Actress seen in The Grandmaster. Golden Horse Awards: Singapore’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar submission wins Best Picture Surprisingly, the 2013 Golden Horse Award for Best Picture was …
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Lesbian Drama Best Film at Tribeca + Asian Film Awards
27 minutes readCarice van Houten and Rutger Hauer in ‘Black Butterflies’ Carice van Houten & ‘She Monkeys’: Tribeca Film Festival Awards Writer-director Lisa Aschan’s feature film debut, the Swedish lesbian drama She …
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3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy Box Office: Erotic Hong Kong Hit Beats Avatar on First Day
5 minutes read3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy box office: Erotic Hong Kong hit has beaten the first-day gross of James Cameron’s international blockbuster Avatar.
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Michelle Yeoh Martial Arts Fighting + Blue Valentine Sex Excess?
10 minutes readMichelle Yeoh Martial Arts Fighting, Zack Snyder directing Superman Reboot with Batman director Christopher Nolan as executive producer.
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Gotham Awards: Jealous Chilean Maid Surprises + Spanish-Titled Drama Tops Chinese Cinema Night
27 minutes readGotham Awards: Catalina Saavedra in The Maid. Gotham Awards winners “Kudos to you, great performance,” Rosie Perez told Willem Dafoe, after saying that Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, a dark, sex-filled …
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Dye-Transfer Technicolor Movie Series + the Dark Magician of Chinese Animation + Star Trek Returns
13 minutes readSean Connery in From Russia with Love. The American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre will present six features (and several shorts) made in the dye-transfer Technicolor process (a.k.a. I.B. or “imbibition”), beginning …
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Séraphine de Senlis Biopic Tops Prix César + Danish Film Critics + Japanese ‘Oscar’ Winners
23 minutes readSéraphine de Senlis Biopic Séraphine with Yolande Moreau. The 2009 César ceremony, held this evening at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, offered a few surprises. (In the U.S. and …
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Cider House Rules Movie + Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Abortion + Woman-Led Martial Arts Classic
5 minutes readThe Cider House Rules movie with Tobey Maguire. Lasse Hallström’s 1999 Best Picture nominee The Cider House Rules will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts …
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Lust Caution: Sex scenes fail to offend Venice Film Festival jury. Yesterday, surprising many prognosticators, the controversial, near-sexually explicit spy thriller Se, Ji / Lust, Caution earned Ang Lee his …
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SAG Awards: British Dames Andrews & Mirren + Sundance Winners
16 minutes readSAG Awards: British Dames Julie Andrews and Helen Mirren are top winners + immigration and identity theft drama wins Sundance + Gong Li leads Hong Kong.
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Mexican wrestler vs. invading Martians: Santo el Enmascarado de Plata vs la invasión de los marcianos. Mexican Wrestler Santo vs. the Martians + Bhutanese fantasy-adventure & Helen Mirren: Rio Film …
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Banned Chinese Film (?) Is Top Tribeca Winner
5 minutes readBanned Chinese film – but is it really? – wins Tribeca Film Festival’s top prize, while Russian space drama + El Salvador Civil War tale are Moscow and Seattle faves.
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Hong Kong Film Awards: Blockbuster Action-Comedy Beats 2046
5 minutes readHong Kong Film Awards: Stephen Chow’s blockbuster action-comedy Kung Fu Hustle beat Wong Kar-Wai’s international hit 2046.
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The Golden Horse Awards’ surprise Best Film is an environmentally conscious Tibet-set ‘Western’ that beat a Wong Kar-Wai international hit.
Who Is the Monkey King? Find Out His Identity as Animated Chinese Classic Gets West Coast Premiere
The Monkey King 3D. Who is the Monkey King? Chance to find out as Chinese animated classic to have West Coast premiere The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven in 3D …
Kekilli Wins Tribeca + Bodyguards and Assassins Tops Hong Kong
Sibel Kekilli in Feo Aladag’s When We Leave. Feo Aladag’s Turkish-German drama Die Fremde / When We Leave, which recently received six Lola nominations, was voted best narrative film at …
Camorra Movie Tops European Film Awards + Autism & Human Trafficking Dominate Australian Oscars
Camorra movie Tops European Film Awards + Autism and Human Trafficking Dominate Australian Oscars + Golden Horse Award winners for Jet Li war film.
The Go Master: Chinese political controversy at the Golden Horse Awards. ‘After This Our Exile’ tops Golden Horse Awards Patrick Tam’s Fu zi / After This Our Exile won this …
NSFC Awards surprise: A Clint Eastwood melodrama is the unexpectedly mainstream winner of the generally more ‘esoteric’ U.S.-based critics group.