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Shelly Reviews Nanjing Massacre blockbuster <i>City of Life and Death</i>

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Jan 25, 2010

Shelly Reviews Nanjing Massacre blockbuster City of Life and Death

City of Life and Death (dir. Lu Chuan) In the new issue of Cinema-Scope Magazine, our own Shelly Kraicer takes on last year’s Chinese...

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Jan 18, 2010

Avatar Breaks Chinese Box Office Records — and Inspires Activists

What do this: and this: have in common? Apparently, they are both images of urban gentrification in China. The top image is from James...

Report on the China Independent Film Festival by Chris Berry

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Jan 15, 2010

Report on the China Independent Film Festival by Chris Berry

Spring Fever (dir. Lou Ye) In the new issue of Senses of Cinema, Chris Berry offers a review of the 6th China Independent Film Festival,...

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Jan 14, 2010

Best Chinese Language Films of the 2000s: Ballots

A list of the ballots from all 47 participants of the Best Chinese Language Films of the 2000s Poll follows after the break. Several...

Best Chinese-Language Films of the 2000s: Poll Results

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Jan 13, 2010

Best Chinese-Language Films of the 2000s: Poll Results

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Jan 12, 2010

Zhang Xianmin’s Top Films of the Decade

Zhang Xianmin (photo courtesy China Independent Film Festival) One of our most valued partners is Zhang Xianmin, who is nothing less than...

Best Chinese-Language Films of the 2000s: One Voter’s Thoughtful Ballot

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Jan 12, 2010

Best Chinese-Language Films of the 2000s: One Voter’s Thoughtful Ballot

Betelnut (dir. Yang Heng) In conducting the one-of-a-kind poll of the Best Chinese-Language Films of the 2000s, we received ballots from...

Shelly’s Top Ten Mainland Chinese films of the 2000s

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Jan 11, 2010

Shelly’s Top Ten Mainland Chinese films of the 2000s

Oxhide 2 (dir. Liu Jiayin) On Wednesday, dGenerate Films will publish the results of its poll of Chinese filmmakers and experts on the...

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Dec 30, 2009

Lessons from the Underground: China’s Indie Music Scene

The blog for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, published an interesting article about the film series “The People’s Republic of...

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Dec 18, 2009

The Selling of Culture in China

Zhao Dayong “How China is using art (and artists) to sell itself to the world” is an informative and insightful article in The Star by...

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Nov 20, 2009

Cui Zi’en Interview at 4th Beijing International Queer Film Festival

We found an interesting video on Danwei.org, a website about media, advertising and urban life in China, in which reporter Jeremy...

Finding Ways to Fit: Mainland Chinese films at Toronto and Vancouver

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Nov 18, 2009

Finding Ways to Fit: Mainland Chinese films at Toronto and Vancouver

1428 (dir. Du Haibin) Part One: Toronto International Film Festival (September 10-19, 2009) One looks to comprehensive film festivals,...

Tibetan Filmmaker to Be Tried for Subversion

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Nov 16, 2009

Tibetan Filmmaker to Be Tried for Subversion

Dhondup Wangchen (Photo courtesy of the New York Times) According to a report on New York Times from Chongqing, China, a self-taught...

Sixty Years of Unsanctioned Memories in the People’s Republic

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Oct 14, 2009

Sixty Years of Unsanctioned Memories in the People’s Republic

At the 60th anniversary of the founding of the P.R.C., Fanhall.com published a list of fifteen key independent documentaries as their...

Shelly on Film: Pushing Beyond Indie Conventions

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Oct 12, 2009

Shelly on Film: Pushing Beyond Indie Conventions

by Shelly Kraicer Betelnut (dir. Yang Heng) Perhaps I’ve been spending just a bit too much time watching movies in China? I have this...

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Oct 7, 2009

Two Approaches to the New-Generation Patriotic Cinema

Among the festivities for the 60th Anniversary of the People’s Republic, the most talked-about and sought-after film is undoubtedly The...

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Oct 3, 2009

DV Management Regulation in the People’s Republic of China

In the New York Times article “Indie Filmmakers: China’s New Guerillas” reporter Kirk Semple mentions an “undefined gray area” in which...

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Oct 1, 2009

dGenerate Films on Q!

On the show, she discusses dGenerate Films and the state of Chinese independent film. If you missed the interview, you can check out the...

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Sep 29, 2009

New York Times article on the Chinese digital underground!

In the midst of Ghost Town-New York Film Festival madness, a little newspaper called the New York Times decided to spotlight the...

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Sep 10, 2009

dGenerate Directors Featured in Dragons & Tigers

by Lu Chen Tony Rayns and Shelly Kraicer, programmers of the Vancouver International Film Festival‘s big Dragons & Tigers: The Cinemas of...

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