Betelnut (dir. Yang Heng) DGENERATE FILMS EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF 3/07/11-3/13/11 Betelnut at the Centre for Contemporary Arts Tuesday,...

By Shelly Kraicer This is the conclusion of Shelly Kraicer’s essay “The Use and Abuse of Chinese Cinema (in the West).” Click here for...

Li Hongqi, winner of the Golden Leopard for Winter Vacation (Photo: Locarno Film Festival) by Isabella Tianzi Cai 34-year-old Chinese...

Betelnut (dir. Yang Heng) “China’s Past, Present and Future on Film,” the recently concluded film series at the Asia Society, yielded...

Awards ceremony at Hong Kong International Film Festival (photo courtesy Lantern Films) The Hong Kong International Film Festival gave...

Yang Heng’s Betelnut, winner of the Best First Feature at the Pusan Film Festival and the Critics’ Jury Prize at the Hong Kong Film...

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Oxhide II (dir. Liu Jiayin) The International Film Festival Rotterdam concluded this past weekend; this year’s edition was of special...

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...

“Observations on Film Art” is a blog run by prominent film scholars David Bordwell (author of numerous books including Poetics of Cinema,...

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...