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2010 Chinese Cinema Yearbook: Films, Reflections

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Winter Vacation (dir. Li Hongqi)

Last year, dGenerate Films conducted the Best Chinese Films of the Decade poll, with the participation of 50 Chinese filmmakers and film experts. The poll results are the most popular feature on our website, recommending many exceptional films to people interested in Chinese cinema. This year, we invited colleagues to participate in the 2010 Chinese Cinema Yearbook, a collection of reflections, memories and favorite films related to Chinese-language cinema this year.

We thank all of our colleagues in the Chinese film community for their support throughout a busy and successful 2010 at dGenerate Films. We look forward to promoting more outstanding works by Chinese filmmakers in 2011.

Click through to access the 2010 Chinese Cinema Yearbook.

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Best of the Decade, Taiwanese Style

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

By Isabella Tianzi Cai

Yi Yi (dir. Edward Yang)

Yi Yi (dir. Edward Yang)

The Taiwanese film magazine Fun Screen called on 68 filmmakers, film scholars, film critics, as well as other related film personnel to vote for the 10 best Taiwanese pictures produced in the years between 2000 and 2009. They were inspired by a similar poll conducted by dGenerate Films earlier this year concerning the 10 best Chinese-language films also made in the past decade.

The result of Fun Screen’s poll came close to ours: Yi Yi, which ranked no. 4 in dGenerate Films’ top-10 list, clinched the no. 1 position in Fun Screen’s top-10 list; and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, which ranked no. 9 in our list, came second there. These films were first and second among Taiwanese films in the dGenerate poll.

The introduction of the poll acknowledged the results of the dGenerate poll in inspiring the poll of Taiwanese films: “At Fun Screen, we do not wish to challenge the list, but the list has made us acutely aware of the fact that Taiwanese films still lack a great deal of international recognition.”

As noted by Lin Wenqi, the chief editor of Fun Screen, “the goal of their poll is not about which film ranks higher than another, but is part of an effort to recognize and celebrate local film talent over the past decade. Fun Screen also just recently published 28 special reports with famous Taiwanese film directors over the past 10 years in a book called The Voices from Taiwanese Films.

The results of the Fun Screen poll can be found after the break.

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