Blog Tag - Chinese Film

A Fascinating Peek: Behind the Scenes of the Chinese Movie Industry
Almost a year ago to this day, the Royal Asiatic Society of Beijing (RASBJ) celebrated its tenth anniversary. Having survived every changing chapter...
Sino Silver Screen: The Holidays May Be Over, but the Cinemas Are Just Getting Started
We are officially running out the clock on 2020, and yet, for China's movie industry, the year feels like it hasn't even started. Box offices across ...
A Drink With  Echo Xie and Zhang Fan, Core Staff of DC Chinese Film Festival
Founded by Cai Yibin in 2011, the biennial DC Chinese Film Festival (DCCFF) celebrates Chinese cinema in its broadest sense, whether made by...
Haven’t Seen A Good Chinese Film In A While? Go See ‘Mountain Cry'
It seems everyone is freaking out about the state of Chinese cinema at the moment. As box office numbers continue to sag, many are taking the...
19 Chinese Films New York Film Festival's Richard Peña Recommends
Our content partners over at China Film Insider quiz Richard Peña, director emeritus of the New York Film Festival and Professor at Columbia...
Red Obsession: The Film That has Chinese Wine-o's Talking
A billionaire sex toy maker-cum-Bordeaux connoisseur ranks among the racier characters in Red Obsession, a documentary that focuses on China and its...
Fan Bingbing Becomes China's First Barbie Doll
This must be a strange moment for actress Fan Bingbing. First she saw herself in wax when Madame Tussauds opened in Qianmen in late May, and now she...
Sequel to Jiang Wen's Blockbuster "Let the Bullets Fly" Starts Shooting
The bullets are about to start flying again. After topping China's domestic box office as its all-time champion with Let the Bullets Fly, Beijing's...
Chinese director Jia Zhangke rose to fame directing sullen, methodically-paced dramas about life in modern China, and his latest effort continues...
Art Attack: 10,000 Kuai for Your Photo, On Han Han, and China’s Oscar Fail
We’re still waiting for things to get back into full swing around here, but that means you have some time to: 1) take some photos to try and win a...
From Country Bumpkin to Airline Captain
Most farmers tend to their fields, but this one takes to the skies. In Qiao Liang’s Flying, the eccentric land laborer Liu Baigang abandons his...
dGenerate: Taking Chinese Indie Films to the US
China offers few opportunities for cinephiles wanting to watch something on the big screen other than Hollywood blockbusters and the historical...
Aftershock: Tangshan as a Family Affair
Warning – this post contains spoilers Recent history is not a realm China's commercial filmmakers are generally too keen to touch for reasons we don...
Chinese half-year Box Office Record Shattered
The war for China's box office may very well have been fought in late 2009 on a planet called Pandora, and won by a bunch of very large blue people....
Opening Eyes: Culture Yard & Chinese Movie Night
There are language schools and there are exchange centers, but few places have tried to fuse learning with cross-cultural promotion quite like...