Tag: Wang Bing
Youth (Homecoming) | Review
Last Train to Zhili: Bing Brings Youth Cycle to Circular Close
Wang Bing completes his ‘Youth’ trilogy with finale Youth (Homecoming), which features the most...
Youth (Hard Times) | Review
Make the Best of Us: Bing’s ‘Youth’ Cycle Expands Into the Gloom
The middle part of Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy, Youth (Hard Times) perhaps more...
2024 TIFF: Miguel Gomes, Wang Bing (X2) & Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias in Wavelengths Programme
We have two exciting updates from TIFF: first, the Wavelengths line-up has been unveiled; second, NYFF has confirmed that Luca Guadagnino's Queer will have...
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...
2024 Venice: Corbet, Guadagnino, Haugerud, Kulumbegashvili, Salles, Tsangari & Yeo Siew Hua In Golden Lion Competition
21 films were selected for the 2024 Venice Film Festival competition and in the pack we find some surprises and several shoe-ins for the...
2024 Locarno Film Festival: Ramon Zürcher, Kurdwin Ayub, Hong Sangsoo & Pia Marais in Pardo d’Oro Comp
Former Pardo d’Oro champs Hong Sangsoo (Right Now, Wrong Then - 2015) and Wang Bing (Mrs. Fang - 2017) will be measuring up against...
Youth (Spring) | Review
The Workshop Around the Corner: Bing Threads Through Textile Manufacturing
Having filmed from 2014 to 2019 in the city of Zhili, Youth (Spring), one...
2023 TIFF: Radu Jude, Denis Côté, Kleber Mendonça Filho & Phạm Thiên An Cement Wavelengths
And now we can officially state that the TIFF selections are now complete with the Wavelengths programme being unveiled. A mix of Berlin, Cannes...
2023 NYFF: Haigh, Hamaguchi, Lanthimos, Triet, Glazer and Annie Baker in Main Slate
We were scratching our heads on where films such as Andrew Haigh's (retitled) All of Us Strangers and the under-the-radar A24 film by Annie...
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...
Wang Bing’s Youth (Spring) – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2
One of the two documentaries selected for the competition (this is more of a traditional docu whereas the other is considered a hybrid), Wang...
You BETcha!: Kaouther Ben Hania, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Alice Rohrwacher, Wang Bing & Glazer Top Contenders for the Palme d’Or
Yesterday the Cannes Film Festival opened with Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry (marking the return of Johnny Depp in the French language no less) but...
Live from Cannes: 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Last year Ruben Östlund took home the big daddy of film prizes winning his second Palme d'Or and this year he gets to be...
2023 Cannes: Steve McQueen, Takeshi Kitano & Victor Erice Featured in the Out of Comp Sections
Let it be known that Thierry Frémaux wanted Martin Scorsese in competition but instead, Killers of the Flower Moon will have been a firm...
2023 Cannes: Glazer, Ceylan, Rohrwacher, Haynes & Ramata-Toulaye Sy Competing for the Palme d’Or
A surprise Wim Wenders project (Perfect Days), a rare directorial debut Ramata-Toulaye Sy (Banel et Adama) and a Wang Bing film (Jeunesse) are part...
Mrs. Fang | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Death Be Not Proud: Bing’s Chilly Portrait of Death a Cultural Critique of Contemporary China
Celebrated Chinese documentarian Wang Bing scored a major coup with...
Top 20 Alternative Picks for TIFF 2013: Wang Bing’s Til Madness Do Us Part
Til Madness Do Us Part - Wang Bing
Section: Wavelengths
Dates: Saturday 7th, Monday 9th, Sunday 15th
Buzz: Outside of film programmers I don't know of many...
Tsai Ming-Liang, Cristi Puiu, Albert Serra & Philip Gröning Among Off-beat Offerings in TIFF’s Wavelengths
Programmer Andrea Picard can do no wrong. From the compiled short and medium film offerings (see listing below for huge sampling of renowned world...
Stacked 2013 Venice Edition Includes Latest Miyazaki, Ki-Duk, Ming-liang, Dolan and Frederick Wiseman
With still several films not yet announced for the behemoth Toronto Int. Film Festival, it appears that 2013 will be a significant cross-over year...
