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Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company, The (1986)

June 30, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Crossing, The (2021)

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Nanook of the North (1922)

June 27, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Trou, Le (1960)

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Lingui, the Sacred Bonds (2021)

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Nostalghia (1983)

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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970)

June 21, 2022June 21, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Broker (2022)

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Remorques (1941)

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Vie de Jesus, La (1997)

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Tag / Jia Zhangke

June 14, 2022June 14, 2022 by Eternality Tan

I Wish I Knew (2010)

  • Jia, Zhangke
  • 2010, China, Documentary, Jia Zhangke
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Eighteen persons with personal connections to the political, social and cultural history of Shanghai share their recollections in Jia Zhangke’s somewhat stolid documentary, where the sum feels lesser than its parts. 

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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March 29, 2021July 31, 2021 by Eternality Tan

24 City (2008)

  • Jia, Zhangke
  • 2008, China, Documentary, Jia Zhangke
  • 2 Comments

There’s something very deeply moving and universal about Jia’s seemingly mundane documentary about the stories of workers (and their children) who used to ply their trade in a Chengdu factory that had made way for new commercial development as China rapidly modernised in the 2000s. 

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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February 6, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Pickpocket (1998)

  • Jia, Zhangke
  • 1998, China, Jia Zhangke
  • 1 Comment

As China urbanises, a man stagnates in this masterful and revelatory feature debut by Jia Zhangke, shot in 16mm and featuring non-professional actors. 

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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November 7, 2020June 14, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Still Life (2006)

  • Jia, Zhangke
  • 2006, China, Jia Zhangke
  • 2 Comments

A stunning work of geographical and existential malaise and one of Jia Zhangke’s finest docu-fictive accomplishments, gorgeously shot along the Yangtze River in Fengjie County as a man and a woman separately search for their estranged spouse amid the human impact of the Three Gorges Dam’s construction.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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February 1, 2019June 14, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Ash Is Purest White (2018)

  • Jia, Zhangke
  • 2018, China, Jia Zhangke
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A Jia Zhangke enthusiast might find this very much a recycling of past themes—not that it is any bad, but that greatness seems elusive as the film progresses.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.
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January 18, 2019June 14, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Mountains May Depart (2015)

  • Jia, Zhangke
  • 2015, China, Jia Zhangke
  • 1 Comment

Jia Zhangke returns to form in this superior drama about the ties that bind us together, even if we scatter like fireworks.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.
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January 18, 2019June 14, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Touch of Sin, A (2013)

  • Jia, Zhangke
  • 2013, China, Jia Zhangke
  • 1 Comment

A sprawling and inconsistently-paced effort with multiple stories and unrelated characters whose sum is lesser than its parts.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.
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