Love is Like a Stove: Zhangke Tackles Genre in Time-Spanning Romance
Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke continues to experiment in tone and form with his latest...
The intimacy of smaller film festivals allow for a closer proximity between between those who create and those who contextualize and critique art. My...
In a surprisingly unpredictable and overall enjoyable 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival, the Cate Blanchett led jury awarded Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters the...
An habitual of both Cannes and Venice, now in his third decade of filmmaking, Jia Zhangke first arrived in Cannes for 2002's Unknown Pleasures, then...
Ash is Purest White
Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke has been internationally renowned since 2000’s Platform, which also was the auteur’s first collaboration with his wife,...
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.