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Sep 9, 2009

Shelly on Film: What is a Chinese Film?

By Shelly Kraicer San Yuan Li (dir. Ou Ning, 2003) What is a Chinese film? Ever since I’ve started living and working in Beijing over...

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Sep 7, 2009

American Idol as… Underground Cinema?

Jian Yi behind the scenes of Super, Girls! Recent d(igital)-generation films are considered “underground” not only due to subject matter....

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Aug 31, 2009

Liu Jiayin’s Oxhide II wins at CinDi Seoul

On Tuesday, August 25, the 3rd Cinema Digital Seoul (CinDi) film festival in Seoul, Korea concluded with director Liu Jiayin’s feature...

<i>Ghost Town</i>: a New Chapter for Chinese Cinema at the New York Film Festival

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Aug 19, 2009

Ghost Town: a New Chapter for Chinese Cinema at the New York Film Festival

Ghost Town (photo courtesy of Fanhall Films) Marking a breakthrough for the Chinese digital filmmaking community, director Zhao Dayong’s...

Shelly on Film: An Inside Tour of The Chinese Independent Film Circuit

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Aug 10, 2009

Shelly on Film: An Inside Tour of The Chinese Independent Film Circuit

The Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Home of the Chinese Independent Film Archive (Photo courtesy of Iberia Center of Contemporary...

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Aug 5, 2009

Far From Center

Recent d-generation films are considered “underground” not only due to subject matter. More often than not their production methodology...

CinemaTalk: a Conversation with Tami Blumenfield

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Jul 29, 2009

CinemaTalk: a Conversation with Tami Blumenfield

dGenerate Films presents CinemaTalk, an ongoing series of conversations with esteemed scholars of Chinese cinema studies. These...

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Jul 24, 2009

Statement by Jia Zhangke on his withdrawal from Melbourne International Film Festival

As a follow-up to yesterday’s news of three Chinese films pulling out of the Melbourne International Film Festival in protest to a...

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Jul 23, 2009

Chinese indie films pull out of film festival in response to Uighur doc

Three Chinese films have been pulled from the Melbourne International Film Festival program Tuesday in the wake of pressure from Chinese...

CinemaTalk: A Conversation with Lu Xinyu

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Jul 21, 2009

CinemaTalk: A Conversation with Lu Xinyu

dGenerate Films presents CinemaTalk, an ongoing series of conversations with esteemed scholars of Chinese cinema studies. These...

Shelly on Film: Between the Cracks of Capitalist China

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Jul 9, 2009

Shelly on Film: Between the Cracks of Capitalist China

By Shelly Kraicer Photo courtesy of TreeHugger.com It’s always an interesting time to be in China, a place seemingly without...

CinemaTalk: A Conversation with Chris Berry

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Jun 29, 2009

CinemaTalk: A Conversation with Chris Berry

dGenerate Films is pleased to introduce CinemaTalk, an ongoing series of conversations with esteemed scholars of Chinese cinema studies. ...

Changing the World (but don’t take our word for it!)

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Jun 18, 2009

Changing the World (but don’t take our word for it!)

SFGate Homepage featuring Ying Liang What a nice surprise to see our very own Ying Liang, director of Taking Father Home and The Other...

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Jun 11, 2009

Tiananmen Square in Film

Last Thursday marked the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square tragedy. We didn’t want to let it go without some making mention of it...

Play the Jia Zhangke <i>24 City</i> East-West Match Game

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Jun 9, 2009

Play the Jia Zhangke 24 City East-West Match Game

The issue of the different reactions between Western and Chinese audiences to Chinese cinema has been with us for at least since the...

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Jun 4, 2009

Chinese Cinema at Cannes: Reviews of Lou Ye’s Spring Fever

Another Cannes has come and gone; reports from my peers who attended were mostly lukewarm about the quality of the films they saw. I...

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May 15, 2009

Building a Bookshelf for Chinese Indie Cinema: Must-have Titles

What follows is by no means a definitive or comprehensive reading list for Chinese cinema, but rather a starting point upon which...

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May 6, 2009

Jia Zhangke profiled in The New Yorker

In a sure sign that Chinese independent cinema is breaking into the American mainstream, The New Yorker has devoted a feature article to...

Shelly on Film: Does ChinaâˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ‘Â¢s Past Have a Future?

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May 4, 2009

Shelly on Film: Does ChinaâˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ‘Â¢s Past Have a Future?

by Shelly Kraicer The persistence of the past, and the present’s attempts to colonize it, tame it, and re-engineer it, is a remarkable...

Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Richard PeâˆšÃ‰Â¬Â±a on Chinese Independent Cinema

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Apr 21, 2009

Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Richard PeâˆšÃ‰Â¬Â±a on Chinese Independent Cinema

On the Edge: New Independent Cinema from China (April 24–27) at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, we spoke with the Film Society’s...

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