Tag: Chinese Cinema
Festival de Cannes: Deadly Shu Qi in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Masterful ‘The Assassin’ (2015)
This writer’s first encounter with the Taiwanese-Hong Kong actress, Shu Qi, was in the late 1990s. One of the few occasions a certain sibling, a…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Haolu Wang’s The Pregnant Ground
Pregnancy and birth are often not discussed in society, other than for the expected highlight reel: pregnancy announcement, gender reveal, baby name announcement, etc, etc,…
FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: ‘The Pregnant Ground’ director Haolu Wang
One of 20 short films in the Competition Selection of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival is The Pregnant Ground from Haolu Wang. We had the…
Rewind – 2007 in Film: Lust, Caution
Clocking in at a run-time of 156 minutes, Lust, Caution is a film that demands a lot of your time and attention. This isn’t a…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Ba
“Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Besh
“If I had the body and the voice of an alpha male, it would be easier. It took nine years from leaving film school until…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Deux
“Abdellatif Kechiche is one of the greatest, most famous directors in France, and I love the trance-like feeling that you get with his cinema. I…
