Asia Society Recap: <i>Little Moth</i>
Little Moth (dir. Peng Tao) Continuing our recap of the Asia Society series “China’s Past, Present and Future on Film,” here is an...
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Apr 26, 2010
Asia Society Film Recap: <i>Betelnut</i>
Betelnut (dir. Yang Heng) “China’s Past, Present and Future on Film,” the recently concluded film series at the Asia Society, yielded...
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Apr 14, 2010
Reveries of the Golden Triangle: <i>Fujian Blue</i> playing Friday
Fujian Blue (dir. Robin Weng) Robin Weng’s acclaimed feature Fujian Blue will screen at Asia Society this Friday, April 16, 2010 as part...
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Apr 5, 2010
“Fascinating, beautifully crafted” <i>1428</i> Reviewed in Variety
1428 (dir. Du Haibin) Du Haibin‘s documentary 1428 received an enthusiastic review in Variety. Reviewer Ronnie Scheib writes: The title...
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Mar 22, 2010
Critics Spar Over Award-Winning <i>City of Life and Death</i>
City of Life and Death (dir. Lu Chuan) Lu Chuan’s controversial Nanjing Massacre movie City of Life and Death picked up the Best Director...
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Mar 15, 2010
Raves Across the Board for <i>Ghost Town</i> – Now Playing at MoMA
The Mao Zedong statue of Zhiziluo salutes the New York film critics for their reviews of Ghost Town We couldn’t be more pleased with this...
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Mar 4, 2010
Zhang Xianmin on six recent Chinese documentaries
Zhang Xianmin (photo courtesy China Independent Film Festival) One of our key partners in China is Zhang Xianmin, who is a leading figure...
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Feb 16, 2010
Shanghai City Weekend reviews <i>Oxhide</i>
In Oxhide, director Liu Jiayin stretches time so effectively that you can feel the weight of years on the shoulders of a leather handbag...
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Jan 25, 2010
Shelly Reviews Nanjing Massacre blockbuster <i>City of Life and Death</i>
City of Life and Death (dir. Lu Chuan) In the new issue of Cinema-Scope Magazine, our own Shelly Kraicer takes on last year’s Chinese...
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Jan 20, 2010
Review of <i>Ghost Town</i> in RealTime Arts Magazine
Zhao Dayong achieves an extraordinary intimacy with his subjects, no doubt partly due to the amount of time he spent living in the town,...
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Jan 12, 2010
Zhang Xianmin’s Top Films of the Decade
Zhang Xianmin (photo courtesy China Independent Film Festival) One of our most valued partners is Zhang Xianmin, who is nothing less than...
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Jan 11, 2010
Shelly’s Top Ten Mainland Chinese films of the 2000s
Oxhide 2 (dir. Liu Jiayin) On Wednesday, dGenerate Films will publish the results of its poll of Chinese filmmakers and experts on the...
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Dec 23, 2009
Kevin’s Top Films of the Year (and Decade)
IndieWire has posted our very own Kevin Lee’s picks for top films of the year and decade. Somehow, some way, he manages to not only watch...
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Dec 21, 2009
dGenerate Titles Included in Top Films Lists
Nice to see that some of our films are being recognized by some of the Best Films of the Year/Decade lists being released. Film Comment...
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Dec 16, 2009
Spreading Far and Wide
It’s always amazing to discover the global reach of some of our films. Some way or another, they find their way out of China and into...
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Oct 22, 2009
dGenerate Directors Applauded by David Bordwell
“Observations on Film Art” is a blog run by prominent film scholars David Bordwell (author of numerous books including Poetics of Cinema,...
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Oct 16, 2009
<i>Ghost Town</i>: Getting Back to Roots
by Lu Chen Zhao Dayong’s Ghost Town is about alienation and distance, about aimless wanderers and broken hearts, yet it is shot with the...
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Oct 3, 2009
Independents on the Sidelines: Chris Berry on the Shanghai International Film Festival
Oxhide II (2009, dir. Liu Jiayin) Held on June 13-21, 2009, the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) was, to quote Chris...
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Sep 25, 2009
Chris Berry on <i>Ghost Town</i>
I received the following message from Chris Berry, who had recently watched the film Ghost Town by Zhao Dayong, which will have its...
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Sep 24, 2009
<em>Ghost Town</em> praised by New York critics
Ghost Town, Zhao Dayong’s 2008 documentary about the residents of the Southwest Chinese town Zhiziluo, makes its International Premiere...
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