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Notre-Dame on Fire, a disaster movie under the helm of prestigious French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, held a premiere in downtown Beijing on Thursday.

This month’s recommended viewing includes a pair of unconventional rom-coms, genre titles with a lot on their minds and two must-see docs for music lovers.

　　Author: Yang Wenjie Man Yi On March 16, the new "Echo" was released at iQIYI Fog Theater. It tells a suspenseful story of a criminal investigation case and a family marriage. Ran Dongdong, the female police officer in this case, accidentally discovered her husband's secret during the investigation, and the "case line" and "emotional line"…

The knives are out and then some in “Full River Red,” a murkily entertaining exercise in twist-twist-stab-stab from the Chinese director Zhang Yimou. Set over a long, dark and increasingly bloody night at a Song Dynasty military fortress, this 12th-century comic mystery opens with a touch of “Macbeth” — a

The biggest commercial success of Chinese director Zhang Yimou's career is an amusingly twisty, stabby period whodunit.

Grief and pain go to the bone in the Chinese director’s simple, beautifully shot tale about an escaped prisoner and an orphan

A busy, precious epic of profoundly limited imagination.

Hero and House of Flying Daggers are Zhang Yimou’s most famous wuxia films, but they are not his best. The Chinese filmmaker’s greatest accomplishments in the wuxia genre lie elsewhere. Zhang’s first two wuxia films, Hero and House of Flying Daggers were criticised in mainland China for being superficial, so he decided to make 2006’s Curse of the Golden Flower...

Share this article Share this article BEIJING, July 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- iQIYI, Inc. (NASDAQ: IQ) (iQIYI or the Company), an innovative market-leading online entertainment service in China, is pleased to announce the exclusive online premiere of Crossroad Bistro on July 11. The series is directed by acclaimed Chinese director Feng Xiaogang and produced by a team of award-winning industry veterans. iQIYI, Mayla Media, New Force Culture, and Aranya Productions co-presented the series. iQI...

‘Cliff Walkers’ Review: Zhang Yimou’s Sumptuous Spyjinks Leave the Characters Out in the Cold Variety 5/3/2021 When the urgent desire to make something beautiful overrides the desire to tell a particular story — and when you are Zhang Yimou, rebounding from a run-in with the Chinese authorities over your last picture, “One Second” — you might end up with a film like “Cliff Walkers.” A gorgeously snowbound period spy movie insulated beneath layers of contorted plotting just a...