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Sep 9, 2009
Shelly on Film: What is a Chinese Film?
By Shelly Kraicer San Yuan Li (dir. Ou Ning, 2003) What is a Chinese film? Ever since I’ve started living and working in Beijing over...


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Sep 7, 2009
American Idol as… Underground Cinema?
Jian Yi behind the scenes of Super, Girls! Recent d(igital)-generation films are considered “underground” not only due to subject matter....
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Aug 31, 2009
Liu Jiayin’s <em>Oxhide II</em> wins at CinDi Seoul
On Tuesday, August 25, the 3rd Cinema Digital Seoul (CinDi) film festival in Seoul, Korea concluded with director Liu Jiayin’s feature...


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Aug 19, 2009
<i>Ghost Town</i>: a New Chapter for Chinese Cinema at the New York Film Festival
Ghost Town (photo courtesy of Fanhall Films) Marking a breakthrough for the Chinese digital filmmaking community, director Zhao Dayong’s...


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Aug 10, 2009
Shelly on Film: An Inside Tour of The Chinese Independent Film Circuit
The Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Home of the Chinese Independent Film Archive (Photo courtesy of Iberia Center of Contemporary...


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Aug 5, 2009
Far From Center
Recent d-generation films are considered “underground” not only due to subject matter. More often than not their production methodology...

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Jul 29, 2009
CinemaTalk: a Conversation with Tami Blumenfield
dGenerate Films presents CinemaTalk, an ongoing series of conversations with esteemed scholars of Chinese cinema studies. These...
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Jul 24, 2009
Statement by Jia Zhangke on his withdrawal from Melbourne International Film Festival
As a follow-up to yesterday’s news of three Chinese films pulling out of the Melbourne International Film Festival in protest to a...
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Jul 23, 2009
Chinese indie films pull out of film festival in response to Uighur doc
Three Chinese films have been pulled from the Melbourne International Film Festival program Tuesday in the wake of pressure from Chinese...


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Jul 21, 2009
CinemaTalk: A Conversation with Lu Xinyu
dGenerate Films presents CinemaTalk, an ongoing series of conversations with esteemed scholars of Chinese cinema studies. These...


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Jul 9, 2009
Shelly on Film: Between the Cracks of Capitalist China
By Shelly Kraicer Photo courtesy of TreeHugger.com It’s always an interesting time to be in China, a place seemingly without...


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Jun 29, 2009
CinemaTalk: A Conversation with Chris Berry
dGenerate Films is pleased to introduce CinemaTalk, an ongoing series of conversations with esteemed scholars of Chinese cinema studies. ...


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Jun 18, 2009
Changing the World (but don’t take our word for it!)
SFGate Homepage featuring Ying Liang What a nice surprise to see our very own Ying Liang, director of Taking Father Home and The Other...
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Jun 11, 2009
Tiananmen Square in Film
Last Thursday marked the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square tragedy. We didn’t want to let it go without some making mention of it...


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Jun 9, 2009
Play the Jia Zhangke <i>24 City</i> East-West Match Game
The issue of the different reactions between Western and Chinese audiences to Chinese cinema has been with us for at least since the...
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Jun 4, 2009
Chinese Cinema at Cannes: Reviews of Lou Ye’s <i>Spring Fever</i>
Another Cannes has come and gone; reports from my peers who attended were mostly lukewarm about the quality of the films they saw. I...
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May 15, 2009
Building a Bookshelf for Chinese Indie Cinema: Must-have Titles
What follows is by no means a definitive or comprehensive reading list for Chinese cinema, but rather a starting point upon which...
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May 6, 2009
Jia Zhangke profiled in <i>The New Yorker</i>
In a sure sign that Chinese independent cinema is breaking into the American mainstream, The New Yorker has devoted a feature article to...


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May 4, 2009
Shelly on Film: Does China’s Past Have a Future?
by Shelly Kraicer The persistence of the past, and the present’s attempts to colonize it, tame it, and re-engineer it, is a remarkable...


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Apr 21, 2009
Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Richard Peña on Chinese Independent Cinema
On the Edge: New Independent Cinema from China (April 24–27) at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, we spoke with the Film Society’s...
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