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Programmer @Cine_Cina ; Distributor @CrescendoHouse ; Writer/Album Producer @SoundtrackMag ; Freelance writer on film, TV, and music

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18 days

I contributed an editorial covering last month’s Night After Night concert celebrating the collaboration of M. Night Shyamalan and James Newton Howard with the Philadelphia Orchestra

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The Oct. issue is live with Brian Tyler’s TRANSFORMERS ONE, Goldenthal in Ghent, Mann’s EMILY IN PARIS, the Blair Bros.’ REBEL RIDGE, the French JERRY GOLDSMITH BOOK, Gurtler and Miserre’s THE OUTRUN, Steven’s BOOKWORM, Heinila’s SEBASTIAN—and more! Enjoy!

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The official poster of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s new film Serpent’s Path is finally revealed. The film is scheduled to be released in Japan on June 14th

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To promote Anatomy of A Fall’s release in China, Sandra Hüller once again flexes her language skills by recording a minute-long video message completely in Chinese

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Mr. & Mrs. Cannes

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The Boy and the Heron will be released in China on April 3. This is the first time a new Hayao Miyazaki film to have a theatrical run in China. Also, the original Japanese title “How Do You Live” is used as the official Chinese title

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Can you believe one of the best gangster films ever made doesn't have a single gun appear onscreen?

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What is your favorite movie that doesn’t have a gun appear onscreen?

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Poster for Hong Sang-soo retrospective in Macau

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When Jia Zhangke, Bi Gan, and Takeshi Kitano all on the cover of a fashion magazine

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Aggro Dr1ft has a very badass title in Hong Kong: Revenge Miami: Demon Annihilator Dominates the World

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Jia Zhangke confirmed a long circulated rumor that Criterion has acquired 5 of his films to be restored and released in a box set in the near future

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s third film this year CLOUD will be released in Japan on 9/27. 30-second teaser and poster revealed:

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Perfect 6-hour double bill

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My top 10 artfully bleak teenage coming-of-age dramas: 1. Rumble Fish 2. Christiane F 3. Lilya 4-Ever 4. Over the Edge 5. River’s Edge 6. Elephant 7. Kids 8. Thirteen 9. The Chocolate War 10. Paranoid Park

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Just found out that Edward Yang & Tsai Chin starred in a laundry detergent commercial together in 1989. They really looked like a loving couple here

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One thing always frustrates me is that we never really get a late-stage masterpiece from any Chinese-language directors for one reason or another. They either died young or had to retire due to poor health, forced to make endless propaganda films, or just simply lost their edges

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Some news from the director of FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE:

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I think it’s safe to call it the Oppenheimer Effect by now when we have three upcoming non-IP IMAX releases

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Jia Zhangke the fashion icon

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Jia Zhangke announced on Weibo his new book about some of the basic knowledge of cinema titled "Two or Three Things I Know about Cinema" will be published in Chinese in 2024. Here's my translation of the table of contents. It includes 17 lectures, an author's preface and an extra

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Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)

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The trailer for Wei Shujun’s Only the River Flows is out and looks very good. It’s the first movie to be shot on film coming out of China in years

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After seeing Ghost in the Shell: Innocence in theater, I’m once again reminded that in a year that this film, Oldboy, 2046, Tropical Malady, Nobody Knows, and Woman Is the Future of Man all in the main competition of Cannes, somehow Michael Moore won the Palme d’Or

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Wei Wei, the lead actress in Fei Mu’s Spring in a Small Town, has passed away at the age of 101. She also appeared in Jia Zhangke’s documentary I Wish I Knew

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Very sad news ahead of the closing ceremony #Cannes2024 : Jia Zhangke just posted on Weibo that CAUGHT BY THE TIDES won’t win any awards tonight. He thanked all the rave reviews and encouragement and will start to work his next film soon

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All three films of Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy have now vanished from Douban, the Chinese equivalent of Letterboxd

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@BilgeEbiri Fun fact: the main villain of the film Kananga (played by the great Yaphet Kotto) was named after this stuntman Ross Kananga who also owned the crocodile farm where this scene was shot

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“The fact that our film can travel through such a distance to reach you proves that art is only bounded by imagination but transcends language and border”

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7 months

According to the presentation at the Chinese CinemaCon, Bi Gan’s new film Resurrection starring Jackson Yee & Shu Qi has already begun shooting. The description sounds very Blade Runner: a film focusing on “bionic man” with elements of sci-fi, surrealism, and detective stories

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Wang Bing’s Youth (Sping) finally made its China premiere at Institut Français in Beijing (diplomatic immunity I guess) and Jia Zhangke was in attendance. He praised the film as an immersive work that can even make the audience feel the temperature and breathes of those workers

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I’m regret to learn that this is NOT a restoration in any way. It’s a simple digitalization of the film and it’s not even a scan of the original negative. According to the producer, this version won’t be available for home video or streaming release at least for the next 3 years

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Ahead of its February re-release in Taiwan, a trailer for the new 4K restoration of Hou Hsiao-hsien's 1989 Golden Lion winner A CITY OF SADNESS.

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Now having seen all Edward Yang’s film (not including his made for TV works) here’s my preference. Not a single bad film and you can clearly see he’s entering a new stage in his career with Yi Yi. Can’t even imagine what he could have accomplished if he’s still with us

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@BrndnStrssng This is some insane level method acting

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From Golden Sparrow to Jade Fox, the legendary Cheng Pei-pei defined what a swordswoman can be on the big screen. R.I.P.

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Tsai Ming-liang posted a very touching in memoriam for Cheng Pei-pei, recounting his first encounter with Come Drink With Me and working with Cheng on a TV anthology. When he visited MoMA in 2022 for his retrospective, he showed his drawing of Cheng as the iconic Golden Swallow

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@c0mmunicants Challenge: include at least one film before 1980

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Happy 69th birthday to Johnnie To!

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3 years

Watching #Dune is like witnessing the dinosaurs walking upon the earth again. It’s something that Hollywood forgot how to make in a very long time: a mainstream blockbuster yet also a prestige film. No praise is enough for what @HansZimmer has achieved here. A true epic. #NYFF59

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@SophyRomvari Wong Kar-Wai’s step printing

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Just found out that this “restoration” is done by China Film Archive using TikTok’s owner Bytedance’s AI algorithm Volcano Engine and it’s part of a bigger project to “restore” some of the most beloved Hong Kong classics. This sounds like the worst idea possible on so many levels

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🏖️ Tonight at #Cin émaDeLaPlage... It's time for action with Jackie Chan, tasked with recovering a Nazi treasure hidden for decades in a fortress deep in the Sahara. Suffice to say, with Armour of God II: Operation Condor, directed by the actor himself, you'll have your feet in

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The most unexpected experience I had during my first visit to Cannes is to become the last minute interpreter for the amazing Zhang Ziyi. One of the most talented actors of her generation, I truly hope she can find more films that match her caliber in the future

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Kim’s Camera

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@davidchang @edgarwright As a Wuhan native, I fully support that we call it China Virus or Wuhan Virus in order to remember and hold the Chinese government accountable.

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Unsurprisingly, the last episode of Blossom Shanghai ends in 1997, with a brief scene in Hong Kong. But we do have some surprises from Wong Kar-Wai: these never before seen archival footages used in the episode were shot by Wong himself on July 1st, 1997

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A new poster for the rerelease of Millennium Mambo in Taiwan this June

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Bi Gan made a cute 15-minute short film A Short Story (the Chinese title is "the Broken Heart of the Sun") for Pidan, a cat product company. And of course, the film is about a black cat's adventure.

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Caught by the Tides is basically Ash Is Purest White 2.0 in terms of general story and structure, except it's almost a Tsai Ming-liang film. I hope Zhao Tao wins every award in the world

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Tilda Swinton with Jia Zhangke, after her masterclass in Beijing

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Isn’t it amazing that Edward Yang manage to show us more magic of Elvis in A Brighter Summer day without the man ever being there than the entire 2 hours and 39 minutes biopic titled Elvis?

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@davidchang @edgarwright Regardless what else he said or did, it’s essential for the world to remember that it’s the Chinese regime that hide the truth for more than a month and did nothing when the virus first appeared in Wuhan.

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Holding my tears throughout the film but when Glory to Hong Kong played, I just bursted into tears and started to sing along with the rest of the audiences. It’s the definitive documentary about the 2019 Hong Kong movement. @TheAcademy please nominates this incredible film

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Director Jia Zhang-ke posing for the #NYFF62 polaroid 👑

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Now with 18 episodes in, I can firmly say that Blossom Shanghai is a very good TV show coming from Wong Kar-Wai. It’s a spiritual sequel to the Grandmaster in the sense that it’s trying to evoke the entrepreneurial era of Shanghai in the early days of China’s economic reform. 1/3

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Wow Olivier Assayas really put the original Irma Vep footage in episode 3 but changed Maggie Cheung’s name to “Jade Lee”. However if you understand Chinese, you’ll know that Jade exactly means Maggie Cheung’s Chinese name 曼玉

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Soi Cheang’s TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN had its first press screening in China yesterday and the reactions are over the roof. Some compare it to Mad Max: Fury Road for the non-stop action and bloody violence and Kung Fu Hustle for the manga-like fighting style

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Jia Zhangke’s next film We Shall Be All has begun shooting since September 11 in Chongqing

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A screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s DUST IN THE WIND at the In Moments Film Festival in Fujian, China was censored three times by the someone using his hand to cover the projector

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Only 15 votes for Eastwood and only 1 of them is from America. This is INSANE

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good blocking is hard to find - especially when there's 3 or more people in a scene. the best ensemble blocking is like a tableau - people don’t naturally position themselves symmetrically, so it has to be curated to look cinematic, but it also has to be a bit loose to not feel

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Seeing Lust, Caution again in a theater on 35mm print with Ang Lee himself in person is such a treat. Probably the most subversive film ever made about the Sino-Japanese War. I love Decision to Leave but this is truly Tang Wei's performance of a lifetime

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David Bordwell in a Hong Kong film: in Norris Wong’s 2019 film My Prince Edward, a character is reading the Chinese version of Poetics of Cinema on the toilet

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2 years

@faceyouhate Very smart to question the judgement of Thelma Schoonmaker, one of the greatest film editors ever

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Hearing Hamaguchi talking about Kiyoshi Kurosawa for 20 straight minutes made you almost can feel his presence, and that’s very Kurosawa indeed #NYFF59

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Anthony Wong in the flesh

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Greek cinema went from Theodoros Angelopoulos to Yorgos Lanthimos

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Name a bigger downgrade in cinema.

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Wow @IFCCenter is bringing back the Tree of Life, aka the greatest film ever made, at the end of this month for a whole week. If you have never seen this film on a big screen, what are you waiting for?

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IFC Center - The Tree of Life

“My first job in cinema exhibition was in 2011, the year this film came out and all the heightened emotion, spirituality, and expressiveness left a huge impression. THE TREE OF LIFE is what I hold up...

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According to a report by HK01, Johnnie To is shooting a new film in Kwun Tong area with Hong Kong pop star Anson Lo. It appears that he’s playing a driver in the scene. This will be To’s first feature film in 5 years since Chasing Dream

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盧瀚霆Anson Lo新作拍杜琪峯　花姐隆重其事親自到場監督

男子組合MIRROR忙完英國演唱會，返港後又立即為電影《12怪盜》做宣傳，本周四28號開始更有謝票場。而隊中成員盧瀚霆（Anson Lo），原來仲有嘢忙緊

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This is my Eras Tour

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The official trailer for RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS. 🎵

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"I think cinema makes too much effort to convince audiences that they’re seeing something of this world. But we’re not; we’re seeing the parallel world of cinema, with different laws." GRAND TOUR director Miguel Gomes speaks to Dennis Lim at #Cannes2024 .

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It’s finished: Wang Bing and his entire filmography completely purged from Douban

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All three films of Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy have now vanished from Douban, the Chinese equivalent of Letterboxd

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@LegoRacers2 Actual photo of Nixon’s 1979 trip to China, with Deng Xiaoping who’s the de facto ruler of China at the time

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Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In is my favorite Hong Kong film in recent memory. Imaginative in action design while heartfelt in camaraderie, it’s the living proof that the Hong Kong cinema is not dead, that the spirit of Hong Kong will live on. I really fucking love this city

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There’s also an exclusive hand-drawn Chinese poster by Toshio Suzuki reads “goodbye my friends”

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Grand Tour: with maybe the exception of Jia, Gomes is operating on a completely different level than any other films I’ve seen in competition this year. I’m completely mesmerized by it

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@outlawvern It already exists and is called Christopher Robin, written by none other than Alex Ross Perry

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A pre-screening message at BJIFF screening of in water: This film is a very experimental work. The blurry visual is from creator’s intention, not due to projection error or your tired eyes. Let's go into the water together and figure out Hong Sang-soo’s true meaning. (1/2)

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@strangeharbors The only interesting thing this film managed to do is to make it look like a pro-AI propaganda film actually made by AI themselves

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@HeylKatme You forgot Meryl Streep

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An Unfinished Film: once again we’re reminded why Lou Ye is the most special filmmaker working in China today. An honest and intimate portrait of a film crew during the beginning of the lockdown. It’s a film that can only be “finished” when it’s screened to audiences in China and

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That’s not even his real daughter. It’s Liu Haocun from his movie. Jackie Chan infamously neglects and mistreats his actual daughter Ng Chok-Lam from an extramarital affair. He not only didn’t provide any financial support for her growing up, she never even met him til this day

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Jackie Chan and his daughter crying while watching some of his old movie scenes is the most wholesome thing you’ll watch today. Thanks for our childhood legend ❤️

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Can’t believe they let Scorsese go 0 for 10 for the third time. Really?

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Seeing Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast the second time, with Léa Seydoux in person Q&A (she sings too!

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@eathedocument He was kicked out of being an altar boy because he was late too often

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According to a report on Weibo (China's equivalent of Twitter), Wong Kar-Wai's long awaited TV show Blossoms Shanghai is finally gonna air on China's national tv channel for tv shows CCTV-8 in primetime and stream on Tecent Video in late December.

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Andy Lau talked about his three favorite films he’s in: Love on A Diet, Infernal Affairs, and Boat People. He also expressed interest of directing a comedy #TIFF23

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Scorsese said the best here

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@IndieWire The first blockbuster nominated for Best Picture was his own Jaws, which was also the first blockbuster ever

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We have the official poster paying tribute to Akira Kurosawa, the Honorary Palme d’Or for Ghibli, and the Directors Fortnight poster paying tribute to Kitano. Yet there’s not a single Japanese film in the Main Competition while the new Kiyoshi Kurosawa film is right there

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The poetic beauty, hypnotic magic and apparent simplicity of the cinema. The official poster of the 77th Festival de Cannes revealed! 🌕💙 The scene is taken from Akira Kurosawa's 1991 film Rhapsody in August. The next-to-last film by the director reminds us of the importance

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Name a film, preferably newish, that, while widely considered great, has you itching to get on your soapbox and shouting "DO YOU ALL REALIZE HOW GREAT THIS IS? WE NEED TO BE TALKING ABOUT HOW GREAT THIS IS. ALL. THE. TIME." Yes, I just rewatched Phantom Thread.

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The titles seem to be confirmed by Jia in the comment section: the hometown trilogy (Xiao Wu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures), The World, Still Life

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@metaplexmovies The same team that did Shoplifters poster

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What is the best movie you’ve ever seen that is about friendship?

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According this post on Weibo, during a recent Q&A after the screening of Exile in Japan, Johnnie To announced that he’ll begin shooting his next film around Lunar New Year even though there’s no a finished script yet

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2 years

Chang Tsang, the cinematographer of Edward Yang’s the Terrorizers and A Confucian Confusion has passed away. R.I.P.

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噢，張展老師離世了。

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@Srirachachau One of the funniest scenes ever

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New poster for Soi Cheang’s Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In #cannes2024

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The English title of the new Tony Leung’s spy film Hidden Blade (the original Chinese title 无名 means “the Nameless”) was given by Jia Zhangke, apparently taken from Assassin’s Creed’s signature weapon of the same name. Gamer Jia confirmed

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Looking at the MoMA Johnnie To retrospective lineup I can’t help but feel a bit disappointed that they still regard him mostly as an action film director while largely ignoring his romcom efforts

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Petzold stays on brand by opening his Q&A with professing his love for Den of Thieves once again

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I don’t know how you can make a “100 best” of 2000s list without a single Johnnie To, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, or Wang Bing

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IndieWire ranked the 100 best films of the 2000s! absolutely *brutal* process, even compared with other decades, but i'm confident we at least got #1 right. (a lot more to come as part of our 2000s Week)

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Can’t help myself from crying every time watching this montage from Lou Ye’s Summer Palace. It’s been 34 years since the Tiananmen Square Massacre and it’s a shame that this is still the only film about this fateful event

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