Tag: Liu Jian
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #97. Liu Jian’s Art College 1994
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Identified as the film that was pulled from the Directors' Fortnight less than a week before...
2022 Venice Film Festival: 70 Predictions (Part I) Iñárritu, Dominik, Zlotowski & Escalante
This week we throw ourselves into predicting the world premiere options for both the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals. We begin by looking...
2022 Cannes Film Festival: Eight Possible 11th Hour Film Options
Critics' Week made their line-up public yesterday. Directors' Fortnight topper Paolo Moretti mentioned that there is one title from Asia that they are still...
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...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight
Last month we learned that the upcoming 2022 edition of Directors' Fortnight (aka Quinzaine) taking place between May 18th to the 27th will be...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #84. Liu Jian’s School Town
School Town
We’re still waiting on the third feature from Chinese animator Liu Jian, but this may have more to do with the long game...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #43. School Town – Liu Jian
School Town
Chinese animator Liu Jian should hopefully have his third feature ready sometime in 2020, School Town, meant to be an autobiographical look at...
Best of 2017: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 Undistributed but not…Unloved
Prior to unveiling the top theatrical releases of 2017, here's a little love for some festival circuit being held for theatrical release next year...
The Conversation: Top 20 Best Films of 2017 So Far …
At the mid-way point of 2017, the usual cinematic trends continue, with the best theatrical offerings from January through June mostly festival circuit offerings...
Aki Kaurismaki’s “The Other Side of Hope” Leads Nicholas Bell’s 2017 Berlin Intl. Film Fest Top Ten
Unfortunately, Berlinale 2017, the 67th edition of the film festival, may be remembered as something of a letdown. Although several surprises were to be...