Tag: Jia Zhangke
2024 NYFF: Corbet, Tsangari, Baker, Lesage, Guiraudie Plus Surprise Devor & Loktev Titles in Main Slate
We got a nice sampling of Berlinale (e.g. the Golden Bear winner Dahomey) and Cannes (e.g. the Palme d'Or winner Anora) items with a...
Caught by the Tides | Review
The Tide is High: Zhangke Splices Thwarted Romance Across Changing Times
Filmmaker Jia Zhangke presents something of an experimental anomaly with his latest feature, Caught...
Jia Zhangke’s Caught By the Tides – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5
Both a Venice and Cannes Film Festival veteran, Jia Zhangke is coming to Cannes packing not one but two projects - one being a...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Payal Kapadia, Lanthimos, Baker, Gomes & Agathe Riedinger’s Debut Vie for Palme d’Or
With today's announcement of nineteen competition titles aiming in contention of the Palme d'Or (note that we might add another pair or trio next...
Youth in Asia: Jia Zhang-ke Among the Voice Cast for Liu Jian’s “The Artist 1994”
We finally have the answer as to why there haven't been any concrete updates on Liu Jian's third feature film - the one he...
Through the Looking Glass: Top 20 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022 – Picks 20-11
As we continue to navigate a world still in the grip of a formidable pandemic, many have hypothesized on the fate of theatrical releases...
The Best Is Yet to Come | 2020 Venice Film Festival Review
Disease Beat: Jing Revisits the Turn of the Century with Saccharine Debut
Whenever the protégé of a major contemporary auteur branches out into their own...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #117. The Best is Yet to Come – Wang Jing
The Best is Yet to Come
Jia Zhang-ke made headlines at this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival when he announced a trio of new projects...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Ognjen Glavonić’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
Ash Is Purest White | Review
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...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Celebrating Year To – Day 1
It occurred to me while kicking my heels for my connecting flight at the Beijing Intl. Airport (en route to the second edition of...
The Conversation: In the Cannes – 2018: Burning, Donbass & Climax Top the List
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...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5 – Jia Zhangke’s Ash Is Purest White
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...
Live from Cannes: 2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Celebrating our seventh year, for the 71st edition of Cannes, we decided to switch things up for our Cannes Critics' Panel. First, we expanded...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions V: Jia Zhangke & Kirill Serebrennikov Lead the Far East
Cannes 2017 had a strong crop of Russian titles on hand, and several 2018 possibilities could be poised for entry in this year’s program....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #9. Jia Zhangke’s Ash is Purest White
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,...
Tracking Shot: Alistair Banks Griffin, Brady Corbet & Karyn Kusama Shooting in December
“Tracking Shot” is a top of month featurette here at IONCINEMA.com that looks at the projects that are moments away from lensing and as...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #100-11
As the cinematic landscape begins to take shape with the upcoming editions of Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, here are 100 titles of note to...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 8: Zhangke’s “Mountains May Depart” Sees “The World” as Capitalist
Almost splitting his time equally between the Lido and the Croisette, with almost a dozen features in (a mix of fiction and docus), Jia...
2015 Cannes Film Fest: Main Comp 1st Timers Include Kurzel, Lanthimos, Donzelli, Villeneuve, Brize, Joachim Trier & Laszlo Nemes
Returnee former Palme d'Or winners and their latest in Nanni Moretti (Mia Madre), Gus Van Sant (Sea Of Trees) are joined by several Main Comp...
2015 Cannes Film Fest: Jia Zhangke Presented with this Year’s Carrosse d’Or
He might equally feel at home on the Lido, but it is on the Croisette where the Sixth Generation Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke will...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell… 2015 Cannes Film Fest Predictions
With the world’s most prestigious film festival just around the corner, cineastes have been lasciviously salivating about what’s going to show up at Cannes,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #10. Jia Zhangke’s Mountains May Depart
Mountains May Depart
Director: Jia Zhangke // Writer: Jia Zhangke
A preeminent figure in the Sixth Generation movement of Chinese cinema, Jia Zhangke is arguably one...
A Touch of Sin | Blu-ray Review
Upon premiering at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it was eventually awarded Best Screenplay, auteur Jia Zhang-ke’s latest masterpiece, A Touch of Sin...
Best of 2013: Nicholas Bell’s Top 10 Films (Picks 5 to 1)
Continued from yesterday's 10-6 countdown, here are my picks 5 thru 1:
10. Fruitvale Station – Ryan Coogler
9. Her – Spike Jonze
8. Gravity – Alfonso...
Top 3 Critic’s Picks In Theaters this October: Blue Is the Warmest Color, A Touch of Sin & Gravity
This October we've got a handful of gems from Sundance in indie dramatic items such as Stacie Passon's Concussion, Matthew Porterfield's I Used to...
Asian Delights: TIFF Loads up Masters with Zhangke, Ki-duk, Lav Diaz & Sangsoo; Midnight Madness Grabs World Preem to Alex de la Iglesia’s Witching...
The coveted final spot in the Midnight Madness section, is a world premiere screening that belongs to Alex de la Iglesia’s Witching & Bitching...
From Faith Akin to Craig Zobel: Our Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2014
Before we unleash the beast that is our annual Top 100 Most Anticipated Films List for 2013, we thought we'd give our readers an...
