“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...

Oxhide II (2009, dir. Liu Jiayin) Held on June 13-21, 2009, the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) was, to quote Chris...

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

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...

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