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Over the last several weeks, the world appears to have turned a corner with Xi Jinping.

This is the ninth and final of a series of reports about the members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). These men are Chinese President Xi Jinping's closest advisors and the most powerful figures in China.

The forthcoming Mandarin-language comedy King of Peking takes the viewer back to Beijing in 1998. The sooty rooms, the boxy automobiles of just a few makes, models, and colors, and the alleyways crammed with shops hawking cheap home cooking and pirated movies on disc all recall the era when three filmmakers from markedly different backgrounds were growing up in big-city China

“Dead Pigs” – Floaters [MOVIE REVIEW] SHARE Vivian Wu as Candy Wang and Haoyu Wang as Old Wang in Cathy Yans "Dead Pigs." Photo courtesy of Film Movement. Vivian Wu as Candy Wang and Haoyu Wang as Old Wang in Cathy Yan’s “Dead Pigs.” Photo courtesy of Film Movement. “Dead Pigs” is a head-scratcher of a movie. Cathy Yan, the writer/director, considers this film to be a social satire and in its best moments, it is. But sometimes those moments are few and far between. Ope...

Photo: Mubi In the spring of 2013, more than 16,000 rotting pig corpses floated down the Huangpu River, the “Mother River” whose tributaries feed Shanghai’s water supply. Public outrage and an official investigation followed, eventually tracing the pigs to Zhejiang Province, about 60 miles outside the city. The animals had died of a disease called porcine circovirus that officials insisted was not contagious to humans, and a tangle of regulations amid a crackdown on black-market pork had ...

It can’t be said that this movie’s title is false advertising. Cathy Yan’s 2018 feature, coming to streaming in the U.S. this week, opens with a wide-eyed pig farmer coming home from a virtual reality demo to find one of his prize animals unexpectedly turned into an ex-pig. Old Wang (Haoyu Yang) is first befuddled, then highly dispirited as the rest of his animals go the way of all diseased flesh. He, like other pig farmers in the increasingly overdeveloped Shanghai, dumps the useless cor...

Dead Pigs review – winding tale of life in cash-crazed Shanghai Peter Bradshaw A breezily westernised style of Chinese movie is on offer in this 2018 debut feature from Chinese-American film-maker Cathy Yan, who two years later went to Hollywood to direct Birds of Prey, starring Margot Robbie. Dead Pigs is an ensemble dramedy set in Shanghai that satirises – in a distinctly lenient way – the commercialism eating away at China’s heart. It is inspired by a real-life incide...

12 Feb 2021 Last year, everybody wanted to know who Cathy Yan was. The DC Extended Universe had just been given a gutsy makeover with Harley Quinn’s solo outing Birds Of Prey, and Yan was the director to thank. She had made just one feature before — a fizzy social satire called Dead Pigs. Those lucky enough to catch the film at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival — where it premiered before being released in China — wouldn’t have been surprised by the high-octane success of Birds Of Pr...

Most American audiences know Cathy Yan for having directed last years anarchic supervillain(ess) caper Birds of Prey, but now theyll finally have a chance to catch up on her work leading up to Harley Quinns fantabulous emancipation. The filmmakers debut feature Dead Pigs, which premiered at Sundance in 2018 (where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting), gets its global release on Friday, and EW can exclusively reveal the darkly funny indies trailer, above. "I...

Mainland China-born, Hong Kong-raised Cathy Yan may have directed  Birds of Prey—in fact, she is the first woman of Asian descent to ever direct a major Hollywood superhero franchise title, and was "earmarked" specially by Margot Robbie to do so—but most people probably havent had the chance to see Yans first-ever feature film, Dead Pigs. After screening at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018 and winning the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting,  Dead Pigs was sold...