Film Comment Selects Review: Motorway
[For the next week we’ll be looking at some of the movies playing at the Film Comment Selects series, featuring films hand selected ...
Tag: China
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Trailer: Journey to the West
Of the two Monkey King movies coming out this year, I think I’m looking forward to Stephen Chow’s Journey to the West more ...
Cloud Atlas gets heavily cut by Chinese censors
Apparently Cloud Atlas was not the easiest film to understand depending on who you talk to. Some people in the general masses thought ...
Wong Kar-wai rushing to finish The Grandmasters
Roughly five years in the making and oft-delayed, Wong Kar-wai’s Yip Man biopic The Grandmasters is almost done. Almost. The Hollywood Reporter says ...
Behind the scenes of Stephen Chow’s Journey to the West
Donnie Yen’s The Monkey King isn’t the only adaptation of the novel Journey to the West slated for 2013. Stephen Chow is working on ...
Trailer: The Assassins
There’s a certain kind of sumptuousness to Chinese period epics, like John Woo’s Red Cliff or the films of Chen Kaige. Zhao Yiyang’s ...
Jackie Chan’s Chinese Zodiac hits US spring/summer 2013
There’s finally word on the US release of Jackie Chan’s Chinese Zodiac, his 101st movie and his last balls-to-the-walls action flick. Ramy Choi ...
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Trailer: Chinese Zodiac (Hong Kong)
Jackie Chan’s Chinese Zodiac (CZ12) hits Asian theaters this week, and this Hong Kong trailer for the film gives a good sense of ...
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Trailer: The Sorcerer and the White Snake
Ching Siu-tung (aka Tony Ching) has directed a number of notable films over the years, including Duel to the Death, A Chinese Ghost ...
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Teaser: The Monkey King
Yesterday we shared the new poster for The Monkey King from director Soi Cheang, a forthcoming Chinese fantasy film based on characters from ...
New poster for The Monkey King starring Donnie Yen
In the comments of the 12 best Donnie Yen fights, hbomb and I mentioned that we hadn’t heard anything about The Monkey King ...
Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmasters delayed yet again
Guess what delayed production just got delayed again. Wong Kar-wai’s Yip Man biopic The Grandmasters has been pushed back to January 8th, 2013, ...