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Unknown Pleasures
Contemporary street-corner kids in China make good use of their time, because they want to die young. Before then, Xiao Ji first wants to bed…Published on: -
Cry Woman
Humorous and tragic portrait of a young Chinese woman who gets paid to cry at funerals. With colourful and playful images of the Chinese countryside…Published on: -
Springtime in a Small Town
Remake of Fei Mu’s classic from 1948 about a three-sided relationship between a sensual woman, her morbid husband and her ex-fiancé. Balances perfectlPublished on: -
Come Drink With Me
New print of the mother of all martial-arts films by the godfather of the genre, about the Five Tiger Gang, Golden Swallow and the hero…Published on: -
Black Snow
Urban alienation and despair mark this dark, politically daring story of an ex-con (the great Chinese actor Jiang Wen) with no home to return to.…Published on: -
Nüren de gushi
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This Winter
Uncommon and meticulous report of the last working days of four young policemen in Beijing; each says farewell in his own way. A picture of…Published on: -
Welcome to Destination Shanghai
Absolutely not what you have come to expect from China, either in the way of film making or a vision of city life. Sexual sub-cultures,…Published on: -
Enter the Clowns
Suddenly there is a ‘new queer cinema’ in Beijing, as part of an amazing flowering of digital film-making. Unbelievable that anything so off-beat andPublished on: -
Memories Look at Me
A film in which the characters are all themselves and we look on in silence: a daughter with a life of her own in Beijing…Published on: