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This Week’s Events: Betelnut in Glasgow, Queer China in Claremont, and Ghost Town in Ithaca

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Mar 7, 2011

This Week’s Events: Betelnut in Glasgow, Queer China in Claremont, and Ghost Town in Ithaca

Betelnut (dir. Yang Heng) DGENERATE FILMS EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF 3/07/11-3/13/11 Betelnut at the Centre for Contemporary Arts Tuesday, March 8 at 7:00 PM Address: 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow, United Kingdom Description: “Pure cinema” – Susanna Harutyunyan, FIPRESCI – The International Federation of Film Critics “Exquisite!” – Tony Rayns, Film Comment Along a sleepy Hunan riverside, two delinquent boys experience a summer of love and violence in Yang Heng’s visually stun

Shelly on Film: The Use and Abuse of Chinese Cinema, Part Two

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Dec 9, 2010

Shelly on Film: The Use and Abuse of Chinese Cinema, Part Two

By Shelly Kraicer This is the conclusion of Shelly Kraicer’s essay “The Use and Abuse of Chinese Cinema (in the West).” Click here for the introduction and first half of the essay. ———- Oxhide 2 (dir. Liu Jiayin) 4. Exemplary Asian independent art cinema. This misreading has something in common with Number 1 (“Exotic, colorful diversion”) , but in a more rarified, sophisticated form. It also contradicts (but exists in a weird sort of symbiosis with) Number 5 below. There is

Chinese Indie Feature Wins Top Prize at Locarno

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Aug 18, 2010

Chinese Indie Feature Wins Top Prize at Locarno

Li Hongqi, winner of the Golden Leopard for Winter Vacation (Photo: Locarno Film Festival) by Isabella Tianzi Cai 34-year-old Chinese director Li Hongqi’s feature, Winter Vacation, won the Golden Leopard Award at the 63rd Locarno Film Festival on Saturday, August 14, 2010. It is the second time in Locarno’s award history that one country has won the top prize for two consecutive years. In 2009, the award was given to She, a Chinese by another Chinese director Guo Xiaolu. Wint

Asia Society Film Recap: <i>Betelnut</i>

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Apr 26, 2010

Asia Society Film Recap: Betelnut

Betelnut (dir. Yang Heng) “China’s Past, Present and Future on Film,” the recently concluded film series at the Asia Society, yielded positive coverage from a number of reviewers. We’ve already linked to Andrew Chan’s piece on the series in The Auteurs. But we’ve also come across reviews of individual dGenerate titles that screened in the series. For example, here are a couple of reviews of Yang Heng’s award-winning debut Betelnut. This first excerpt is from an online review

Three dGenerate Directors Win at Hong Kong Film Festival

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Apr 1, 2010

Three dGenerate Directors Win at Hong Kong Film Festival

Awards ceremony at Hong Kong International Film Festival (photo courtesy Lantern Films) The Hong Kong International Film Festival gave out its awards Tuesday night, and to our delight, four of the nine awards were given to filmmakers repped by dGenerate. Yang Heng (director of Betelnut) took home the Golden Digital Award in the Asian Digital Competition for his new film Sun Spots, while Zhao Liang (Crime and Punishment) won the Humanitarian Award for his stunning documentary

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Mar 24, 2010

Check out the Award-Winning Betelnut This Friday at Asia Society!

Yang Heng’s Betelnut, winner of the Best First Feature at the Pusan Film Festival and the Critics’ Jury Prize at the Hong Kong Film Festival, will make its New York debut at the Asia Society as part of the series “China’s Past , Present and Future on Film.” You can use discount code asia725 to buy tickets at the $7 member rate. Tickets can be purchased at the Asia Society website or at the Asia Society box office. Betelnut (Bing Lang) YANG Heng. China. 2005. 112 min. Narrati

Discounted Tickets and Jia Zhangke in person for Asia Society series

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Mar 1, 2010

Discounted Tickets and Jia Zhangke in person for Asia Society series

Full schedule and details. #gaishanxiandhersisters #asiasociety #littlemoth #betelnut #jiazhangke #fujianblue

Reviews from Rotterdam: <i>Oxhide II</i> and <i>Sun Spots</i>

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Feb 8, 2010

Reviews from Rotterdam: Oxhide II and Sun Spots

Oxhide II (dir. Liu Jiayin) The International Film Festival Rotterdam concluded this past weekend; this year’s edition was of special interest to us, what with eighteen films by Chinese directors or with a Chinese theme. Two indie films in particular drew critical attention, much of which is summarized below. Oxhide II by Liu Jiayin, already touted by the likes of David Bordwell, received praise from Rotterdam critics across the board. James Mansfield, writing in the film si

Best Chinese-Language Films of the 2000s: One Voter’s Thoughtful Ballot

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Jan 12, 2010

Best Chinese-Language Films of the 2000s: One Voter’s Thoughtful Ballot

Betelnut (dir. Yang Heng) In conducting the one-of-a-kind poll of the Best Chinese-Language Films of the 2000s, we received ballots from nearly 50 participants from around the world, including filmmakers, programmers, critics and other experts. One of our participants, Peter Rist, who teaches at the School of Cinema in Concordia University, sent a particularly lengthy account of his rationale for his selections, which we felt deserve an entry of their own. We’re also pleased

dGenerate Directors Applauded by David Bordwell

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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, The Way Hollywood Tells It, and Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema) and Kristin Thompson. In Bordwell’s recent review of the Vancouver International Film Festival (October 1-16), humorously entitled “Wantons and Wontons,” dGenerate director Liu Jiayin’s new film Oxhide II won his high compliment. Naming the film “the most exciting Asian film I s

Shelly on Film: Pushing Beyond Indie Conventions

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Oct 12, 2009

Shelly on Film: Pushing Beyond Indie Conventions

by Shelly Kraicer Betelnut (dir. Yang Heng) Perhaps I’ve been spending just a bit too much time watching movies in China? I have this recurring daydream, most often when I’m watching a new Chinese film that some enterprising young director has sent me. I always watch every independent film that I receive. You never know what gems might appear unsolicited in the mail. And, even if the film isn’t so terrific, it will still be a useful index of all sorts of interesting trends: i

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