ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
To follow Jia Zhangke’s career closely is to witness a great, restless artist wriggle out of a number of our film culture’s pigeonholes. Despite his reputation as a master in the school of austerity—that art-house mode which has encouraged...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
The world's oldest civilization is in some respects the world's newest. And 37-year-old filmmaker Jia Zhangke, the preeminent cine-chronicler of contemporary China, could well be the most contemporary narrative filmmaker on earth. Jia's fifth feature, Still Life , offers ...
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
by Ryland Walker Knight Unknown Pleasures: The Films of Jia Zhangke begins tonight at PFA with a screening of Still Life at 6:30 followed by Dong , with the short Our Ten Years , at 8:45. I'm new to Jia, but I love me some Joy Division (see sidebar), so the first things that popped to mind when I first heard of this Chinese auteur are those Manchester post-punks, which makes the series' title that...
DIY Filmmaker Sujewa (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
This interview is from January of this year, but I just got around to reading it. Zhangke's (or is it Jia's? - which one is the last name?) movies sound very interesting. Check out the interview article by Anthony Kaufman at Village Voice . Sujewa
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
News: BFI have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Still Life on 25th August 2008 priced at £19.99. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival 2006, Jia Zhangke's Still Life is a tale of two individuals struggling to keep up with the dizzyi...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
Film News: MK2 nabs distribution on docu-fiction movie -- CANNES -- Gallic major MK2 has closed distribution deals on major territories for Jia Zhangke's "24 City," playing off its Competition screening at the Cannes Film Festival.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
"Watching a stolid horde of blue-clad factory workers trudge obediently up an institutional staircase in Jia Zhangke's 24 City as though to the next movie, the colleague beside me murmured: 'It's Cannes!'" A roundup from J Hoberman in the...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
"The latest chapter in Jia Zhangke's chronicles of modern Chinese history is certain to reinforce the director's status as an international arthouse icon," writes Dan Fainaru, reviewing 24 City for Screen Daily. "Consisting of five authentic interviews and four fictional...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
PARIS (Reuters) - Award-winning director Jia Zhangke took his vision of the upheavals of modern China to the Cannes film festival on Saturday with a study of a state-owned factory shut down to make way for a luxury apartment complex.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Cannes, France - Chinese director Jia Zhangke's haunting and unsettling portrayals of life in modern China have never won him too friends among the authorities in Beijing. But growing international acclaim and a more lenient attitude on the part of t...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Film Reviews: Following "Still Life" and "Useless," documentary and fictional artifice are combined ever more egregiously by Mainland helmer Jia Zhangke in "24 City."
Time (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
From the conflicted soul of Mike Tyson to the changing landscape of China, as seen through eyes of the acclaimed Jia Zhangke, documentaries flood the Cannes Film Festival
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Cannes, France - Leading Chinese film director Jia Zhangke lead a one-minute silence for the victims of China's earthquake at a press conference marking the premiere of his latest film at the Cannes Film Festival. Jia's film, 24 City, is set in the r...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Kevin Lee has a "NYC Chinese Cinephile alert: Jia Zhangke's new short film and others playing this Friday - FREE!" Peter Bowen at FilmInFocus: "To understand how the Whitney Biennial fits into the film world at large, we spoke...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Cannes - Chinese director Jia Zhangke's haunting and unsettling portrayals of life in modern China would not appear to be the type of movies that the Beijing authorities like to see representing their country at the world's leading film festivals. Bu...
