Tag: Zhang Yimou
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #192. Zhang Yimou’s Full River Red
Full River Red (Man jiang hong)
Currently in a creative overdrive with what appears to be one project overlapping the next, word last summer was...
TIFF 2021: Fabrice du Welz, Bent Hamer, Michael Showalter, Michael Pearce Selected
A day after San Sebastian Film Festival announced that films by Laurent Cantet, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Claudia Llosa and Claire Simon will be part of...
Cliff Walkers | Review
A Cliff Too Far: Yimou Navigates Tortured Times in Period Espionage Thriller
Arguably the most successful and prolific of the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #76. One Second – Zhang Yimou
One Second
Will we ever be able to see Zhang Yimou’s One Second, which was yanked out of Berlin 2019 days before its premiere for...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #79. Rock Solid – Zhang Yimou
Rock Solid
Zhang Yimou has remained busier than ever. With 2018’s Shadow premiering out of competition at Venice and reaching theatrical release stateside in 2019,...
The Conversation: Bringing Up Berlin – Predictions for the 2020 Berlinale
Berlin becomes a septuagenarian in 2020. The significant European springboard will also receive a new facelift in the early dawn of the new decade,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #138. One Second – Zhang Yimou
One Second
Following his well-received martial arts action comeback Shadow (2018), Zhang Yimou heads back to low-key period drama with his next project One Second....
2018 Venice Film Festival: Jennifer Kent, Alverson, Corbet, Schnabel & Coen Bros. in Comp
Surprise, surprise. At the end of the day, Ethan and Joel Coen's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a feature film (not a series)...
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: #94. Zhang Yimou’s Shadow
Shadow
Zhang Yimou, one of China’s most prolific international mainstream successes, shows no signs of abandoning the historical adventure epics which up until recently proved...
Coming Home | Review
Things Not Forgotten: Zhimou Returns to Period Tragedy with Middling Results
Chinese auteur Zhang Yimou, known recently for elaborate adventure films like House of Flying Daggers...
Latest From Ozon, Bahrani, Baumbach, Gordon Green, Petzold & Hansen-Løve Heading to TIFF…Telluride & Venice
Much like back to school sales in mid July, in our books, TIFF's first announcement wave reminds us that the end of summer is...
