No Gods Left Exclusives Learning To Love: Herman Yau, Ansonbean, and Anson Kong on We’re Nothing at All "Sometimes you just feel so sad that you want to leave the world and bring some people with you."
Chinese Cinema(s) Crossing A Dawn Billed as Chungking Express meets Before Sunset, Zhao Badou's first film has a little bit of the magic of both.
Members only Chinese Cinema(s) We’re Nothing at All Without our connections to one another, we are nothing at all.
Chinese Cinema(s) Police Story [Jackie Chan] is an auteur for the masses, the greatest action star in the history of the silver screen, and arguably our greatest global entertainer.
Offscreen Three Canadian Films from Toronto International Film Festival 2025 A dispatch with reviews of Youngblood, 100 Sunset, and Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery
End of Year Lists The 10 Best Films of 2025 2025 was exactly like every year in the history of cinema in its quality. The only variable every year is whether or not one watched the best the year had to offer.
Chinese Cinema(s) Slow Cinema, Male Nudity, & Censorship: An Interview with Wang Bing An exclusive interview with one of the world's most important filmmakers.
Chinese Cinema(s) Yi Yi It’s an impossible task to summarize human life in three hours. And that’s why Yi Yi is often considered one of the greatest films ever made: because Edward Yang tests the impossible.
Chinese Cinema(s) A Touch of Sin (Exiting Through the 2010s) A podcast appearance about Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin
Chinese Cinema(s) REVIEW: Caught by the Tides (2024) dir. Jia Zhangke I am unaware of a director anywhere in the world who has more thoroughly and philosophically navigated the complicated contradictions of the contemporary world than Jia Zhangke.
Chinese Cinema(s) Striking Rescue — Siyu Cheng [Review] Striking Rescue cinematographer Ai Yanjie loses sight of much of the action and regrettably tempers the blows of the stunt team.
Reviews Death Education Chinese teacher introduces the topic of death education to his students... by experiencing it firsthand - poetic documentary premiered at Sundance
Reviews GO TO: Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024) dir. Soi Cheang And Soi Cheang’s Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, the star-studded crime actioner, is the most culturally relevant film to originate from Hong Kong last year.
Reviews Contact Lens The contacts work as metaphors for both seeing the world differently and the imprisoning cycle of routine.
Essays The 28th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival BIFAN’s embrace of sexuality is one example of its willingness to reach for something extra.
Reviews BUFF Review: Fatal Termination (1990) dir. Andrew Kam Most movies have warts. But not all warts are made equal.
Essays Year Ender: Top Ten Films of 2023 The best films of the year creatively resist the studio destruction of art and suppression of vision with bold statements of visual-sonic distinction
Reviews White River — Ma Xue As we enter the last release wave of true Covid films — those titles both produced during and concerned with the real-world crisis — first-time director Ma Xue introduces a new sort of pandemic film in her debut White River.
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