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The 94th Academy Awards are expected to take place on March 1, 2022, and the submission deadline has now passed for the best international feature film Oscar. A shortlist of 15 finalists is to be unveiled on Dec 21, from which five nominees will be announced on Feb 8. Of the 93 films submitted, 27 hail from Asia. Films produced...
Gong Li shot to fame in 1987 in the romance Red Sorghum, set during the second Sino-Japanese war and the first Chinese film to win the Golden Bear, the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival. From then until the mid-2010s, she and the film’s director, Zhang Yimou, collaborated on some of the best movies in the history of...
In eternally youth-obsessed and -targeting Hollywood, directors have long complained of being “aged out” of the business, judged too old to serve modern audiences’ (or perhaps just studio executives’) tastes despite all willingness to work. Yet outside the commercial mainstream, this seems to be a pretty good era to be a veteran filmmaker. While it used to be that the octogenarian or even septuagenarian behind the camera was a rarity, these days there’s an increasingly large field of talents around the globe who aren’t calling it quits despite advancing well past standard retireme...
'Cliff Walkers' The veteran auteur's latest feature is set in the snowy, shadowy world of 1930s Manchukou, the pre-WWII puppet state established in Northern China by Imperial Japan. Zhang Yimou's period thriller Cliff Walkers is set to open theatrically in China and North America on April 30. It's the Chinese filmmaking legend's first attempt at the spy genre, taking place in the snowy, shadowy world of 1930s Manchukuo, the puppet state set up in northern China by pre-WWII imperial Japan. The film's international distributor, CMC Pictures, gave The Hollywood Reporter an exclusive look Tue...
Sex, it is said, is the only luxury with which the poor are as well supplied as the rich. But within the rigid Chinese feudal society depicted by "Ju Dou," that is not quite the case. The movie, which is set in the 1920s but might as well be set a century earlier, tells the story of a wealthy old textile man who marries a juicy young bride and hires a desperate young nephew and enslaves both of them with his cruel will. The old man owns a factory where he dips bolts of cloth in great vats of bright dyes, and then hangs them on long poles to dry. The cloth is bold and brilliant, the colors of ...