Smog Journeys: Air Pollution Inspires Film & Novel
This winter, like years past, has seen Beijing and other Chinese cities blanketed in a thick cover...
Jia Zhangke
Chinese Film Jury Refuses To Award Best Picture
There was no Best Picture winner at this year’s China Film Directors’ Guild Awards, a...
Why Censors Are Scared of Jia Zhangke’s Film
Chinese film director Jia Zhangke, whose lastest film A Touch of Sin has been censored on mainland...
No ‘Touch of Sin’ At the Oscars
At Asia Society Jonathan Landreth explains how China prevented Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin...
Leaders & Activists Clash on Global Thinkers List
Foreign Policy magazine has published the latest iteration of its annual Global Thinkers list....
Minitrue: A Touch of Sin
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Jia Zhangke on Violence, Censorship and His New Film
Edward Wong of the New York Times recently spoke with film director Jia Zhangke, whose new movie,...
Film Review: A Touch of Sin
The New York Times reviewed “A Touch of Sin”, the newest work of the Chinese...
Jia Zhangke on “A Touch of Sin”
In May, Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin (天注定) won the prize for best screenplay at the Cannes...
Filmmaker Gives Voice to Acts of Rage in Today’s China
China has seen a series of bloody incidents in recent years, most recently including a string of...
Jia Zhangke: China Must End Silence on Injustice
Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin (天注定), a film containing enough violence for critics to have conjured thoughts of Tarantino, won best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival last month. Just prior to taking the prize, Jia told...
Jia Zhangke: “I Want to Bring About Change in China”
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke’s new film, A Touch of Sin (天注定) screened at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this month. While it lost the festival’s top prize to French-Tunisian director Abdellatif...
Jia Zhangke’s ‘A Touch of Sin’ Premieres in Cannes
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin (天注定) screened today at the Cannes Film Festival, where it is being considered for the “Golden Palm,” the prestigious festival’s highest prize. Today’s...
Netizen Voices: Power Cut at Indie Film Fest
It was a mere 30 minutes into the opening screening of the 9th annual Beijing Film Festival when...
In Search of Remembrance: Jia Zhangke’s I Wish I Knew
China Beat reviews I Wish I Knew, a documentary by Jia Zhangke: Jia’s best films are insistently about the articulation of “space” amid seemingly insurmountable constraints. In these films, Jia strives to engender a state of...
Chinese Films Withdrawn from Melbourne Festival Over Kadeer Documentary
From Xinhua News Agency: Three Chinese films have been withdrawn from this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival in protest of the inclusion of a documentary about Rebiya Kadeer — the leader of the World Uygur...
The Shanxi Trilogy: Films That Never Made It Back Home
From the Japan Times: Sometimes called the most significant of the current generation of Chinese film directors, Jia Zhangke (b. 1970) enjoys the distinction of never having had some of his finest work commercially shown in his...
(Un)Chinese Film
On the New Yorker’s site, Evan Osnos has a video report about filmmaker Jia Zhangke: Osnos’ blog post has additional links about Jia’s work.
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