TIFF ’18 Interview: Liu Jie on Bringing Up “Baby”
On a woman (Yang Mi) striving to protect a child at all costs and a director who would stop at nothing to portray the situation as authentic...
Tag: China
Sundance ’18 Interview: Cathy Yan on Breathing Life Into the Delightful “Dead Pigs”
The journalist-turned-filmmaker talks about making a brilliant modern comedy that rises to the challenge of capturing new China through a fa...
SXSW ’17 Interview: Miao Wang on Heading Back to High School for “Maineland”
The "Beijing Taxi" filmmaker talks about observing the cultural assimilation of two Chinese students at an American boarding school in her l...
Interview: Nanfu Wang on the Watchful Eye of “Hooligan Sparrow”
The director of an urgent new doc profiling a Chinese activist who shines a light on government corruption talks about evading secret police...
Sundance ’16 Review: An Ascendant Portrait of an Artist in “Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo Qiang”
Sundance couldn't have asked for more opening night fireworks than this dazzling doc about the contemporary Chinese artist.
Interview: Jean-Jacques Annaud Heeds the Call of the Wild for “Wolf Totem”
One of the world's most well-traveled directors on making a film based on one of China's most cherished texts after being banned from the co...
TIFF ’14 Interview: Lixin Fan on Finding China’s Values Through its Culture in “I Am Here”
After the somber "Last Train Home," the filmmaker returns with an exuberant look at China's youngest generation through its popular "Superbo...
Tribeca ’14 Review: “The Search for General Tso”
Dishes Out a Tasty Cultural History
This adventurous look at the Chinese restaurant staple reveals the complexities of US-China relations.
Interview: Jia Zhang-ke Fights Back With “A Touch of Sin”
On sneaking the incisive, socially conscious meditation on violence past Chinese censors.
Interview: Alison Klayman on Not Apologizing for “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry”
The first-time filmmaker talks about providing new insight on the artist/activist who prides himself on making China a more transparent plac...
