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Since it’s nice to be prepared, the Academy announced some key dates for next year’s Oscars key being that they will be on March 27, 2022, splitting the difference between their more typical late February date and this year’s April event. As Glenn Whipp explained, the Academy may actually be getting out of the way of the Beijing Olympics and the Super Bowl.
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âSwimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blueâ Review: China Through Writersâ Eyes
Jia Zhangkeâs documentary illuminates a vast and complicated history in a series of intimate conversations.
The writer Liang Hong in a scene from âSwimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue,â a documentary by Jia Zhangke.Credit.Cinema Guild
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
Directed by Zhangke Jia
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The films of Jia Zhangke, documentary and fictional, zoom in on the granular details of individual lives. At the same time, they are chapters in the single, unimaginably complicated story of Chinaâs transformation in the decades since the 1949 revolution. Jia, who was born in 1970, tends to dwell in the recent past, and to circle back to Shanxi, the part of northern China where he grew up, but heâs also attentive to the continuities of history and geography, the c
‘Swimming Out’ Film Review: Jia Zhang-Ke Keeps His Eye on a Changing China
In “Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue,” the auteur examines the nation’s evolving cultural perspectives through a quartet of authors
Robert Abele | May 25, 2021 @ 9:55 AM
Cinema Guild
The great Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-Ke has made both dramas and documentaries across his award-winning career so far, yet what binds all his movies is a sense that the labels of fiction and non-fiction aren’t as necessary as the observation that what he’s working in is a large, unimpeachable truth about people and progress in a rapidly changing China.
The place you re born… is the place that half-buries you. The Cinema Guild has debuted a new official US trailer for the acclaimed Chinese documentary
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue, made by the prolific director
Jia Zhang-Ke (aka Jia Zhangke), of
A Touch of Sin,
Mountains May Depart, and
Ash Is Purest White previously. This originally premiered at last year s Berlin Film Festival as one of the opening day films. Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country s most esteemed writers. He speaks with three prominent authors from different eras, who discuss life growing up and the changes over time as the country (and their region) evolves and adapts to difficult times. Reviews describe the film as a quietly moving piece, paying tribute to writers who connect modern urban culture to its provincial roots, and the current era to one that s quickly being lost to living memory.