Three years ago this week I watched the 9th Beijing Independent Film Festival crumble under the weight of official fear fear that the gritty low-budget, experimental dramas and documentaries screening in a remote Beijing suburb reflected a touch more truth about life in China than was permissible at the city’s gleaming downtown cineplexes; fear that these films would thus
In July, Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth in the action-packed series of Hollywood films about trucks turning into giant robots to save the world, became the first film to sell more than $300 million in tickets at China’s box office.Hollywood’s drive to crack the Chinese market is stronger than ever, and it is no shock that Chinese-language films mimicking the
The Museum Of The Moving Image announced its upcoming major exhibitions and programs, running from January through March 2023. Among the highlights is the first-ever U.S. solo exhibition devoted to Spanish artist, inventor, and filmmaker José Val del Omar. The following exhibitions, initiatives, and film programs will run in the first quarter of 2023. In