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Mar 5, 2022 · A Touch of Sin (2013) A Touch of Sin is a widely ambitious anthology film that features four loosely connected stories from across China. Each of the four tales is based on tragic real-life news ...
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Jia Zhangke (Chinese: 贾樟柯; pinyin: Jiǎ Zhāngkē, born 24 May 1970) is a renowned Chinese-language film and television director, screenwriter, producer, actor and writer. He is the founder of Pingyao International Film Festival , dean of the Shanxi Film Academy of Shanxi Media College and the dean of the Shanghai Vancouver Film School of ...
- A Touch of Sin. A Touch of Sin has several of Jia’s famous director trademarks scattered throughout. Multiple storylines are tied together tightly through interconnecting threads, there are socioeconomic issues among everyday people, and rural life outside China’s major cities is depicted.
- Still Life. 2006’s Still Life is gorgeous visually, a portrait of how traditional lifestyles are dying in China. The movie is set in the village of Fengjie, on the Yangtze River, which has been majorly affected by the building of a dam nearby.
- Ash is the Purest White. Ash is the Purest White is Jia’s most recent release, starring Zhao Tao and Liao Fan. Originally beginning in 2001, Qiao (Zhao) is dating a mob boss in Datong, a mining city on the decline.
- 24 City. Like Mountains May Depart, 24 City is set across three different eras: the 1950s, the 70s, and the present day when it was filmed, which was 2008.
May 26, 2016 · The Brazilian director Walter Salles, whose work has somewhat similar themes to Mr. Jia’s, has produced an admiring documentary portrait of the filmmaker, “Jia Zhangke, a Guy From Fenyang ...
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May 27, 2021 · Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue. Directed by Zhangke Jia. Documentary. 1h 52m. Find Tickets. When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an ...
Sep 14, 2021 · A Criterion Collection retrospective of his work means that Western audiences can watch the full breadth of the work from Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke. Thursday, May 30, 2024 Book and Film Globe
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WORLD APART: THE FILMS OF JIA ZHANGKE. By J. Hoberman. In Chinese society today there are a lot of moments where what’s going on could be called a show. —Jia Zhangke, interview with Valerie Jaffee, in Senses of Cinema, July–Sept. 2004. Milieu is everything in the assured, almost ethnographic work of Jia Zhangke, and with The World, China ...
