Filmmaker Jia Zhangke used the pandemic lockdown to return to his years of movies and archival outtakes, from which he has ...

Guan Hu, winner in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, signs a shining and sad fable, tragic and comedic at the same time, of redemption and barks. The question (or one of them) is whether by ...

The Chinese title of Jia Zhangke’s mesmerizing “Caught by the Tides,” a masterfully poetic and pioneering fusion of the old and the new, can be translated in several ways.Jia himself ...

Zhao Tao and Li Zhubin in Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides.” Sideshow and Janus Films It’s even more dramatic if you know that these two characters initially met in Jia’s second film ...

From not one but two Michael B. Jordans fighting vampires to not one but two modern Canadian-cinema classics — our favorite ...

The Chinese title of Jia Zhangke’s mesmerizing “Caught by the Tides,” a masterfully poetic and pioneering fusion of the old and the new, can be translated in several ways. Jia himself ...

Jia's gifts are on display in his acclaimed fifth feature, Still Life, which is just out on DVD.It's set in Fengjie, a town along the Yangtze River that is about to be covered with water from the ...

Jia Zhangke, China’s quintessential indie director, says that the COVID-era lockdowns gave him a chance to rethink and review the miles of footage that he has shot over more than 20 years of ...

Game recognizes game: Martin Scorsese once called Jia Zhangke’s body of work “the finest, toughest, most vitally alive work in modern moviemaking.” It’s a high compliment, but Jia’s ...

During the pandemic, the Chinese director Jia Zhangke, like many of us, had a lot of time on his hands. He began sifting through a personal archive consisting of footage that he had shot since 2001.

Jia Zhangke at the closing ceremony of the 7th Pingyao International Film Festival PYIFF Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke is relieved that the festival he founded in the ancient walled city of ...