Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Yang Qing
Starring: Bai Baihe | Chen Kun | Qin Hao | Yu Entai
Jason says: “There are bits of CHONGQING HOT POT that are clever, nifty, and well-executed enough that one almost wishes that filmmaker Yang Qing had a little bit more room to maneuver than he has in a contemporary Chinese crime
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Peter Pau | Tianyu Zhao
Starring: Bao Bei-er | Chen Kun | Li Bing bing | Summer Jike Juanyi | Winston Chao | Yang Zi-shan
Jason says: “Maybe the best way to describe ZHONG KUI: SNOW GIRL AND THE DARK CRYSTAL (to give it the full name that appears on-screen) is to imagine if Ray Harryhausen had been born in China, making the sort of
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Flora Lau
Starring: Carina Lau | Chen Kun | Lawrence Cheng | Stephanie Che | Tian Yuan
Kyle says: “BENDS is the opening title of the seventh season of ContemporAsian screenings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Most films offer so little that it is tempting to go overboard in praising something as wonderful
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Wuershan
Starring: Chen Kun | Chen Tingjia | Feng Shaofeng | Kris Phillip | Yang Mini | Zhao Wei | Zhou Xun
Jason says: “Newcomers should not be too put-off by the fact that PAINTED SKIN: THE RESURRECTION has a subtitle or a roman numeral depending on whether the title is written in English or Chinese; the first text on the screen
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Tsui Hark
Starring: Chen Kun | Gordon Liu | Jet Li | Li Yuchaun | Mavis Fan | Zhou Xun
Jason says: “Foreign movies often take a while to open in the United States for a number of reasons, and while the eight months since FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE (LEE MEN FEI JIA) opened in Hong Kong actually isn’t
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