The Life Of Oharu – Criterion Collection Hmm, it is available at Amazon but I’m too broke to buy it.
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The Life Of Oharu – Criterion Collection Hmm, it is available at Amazon but I’m too broke to buy it.
Guilty Mind (2017), dir. Xie Dongshen
Remembering China’s Silver-Screen ‘Butterfly’ With the euphonious stage name “Butterfly Wu,” or “Hu Die” in Mandarin, the actress born Hu Ruihua starred in numerous films during the golden age of the film industry in Shanghai, once touted as the “Hollywood of the East.” Born in 1908, Hu traveled and lived in different cities all over…
The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproducibility The social significance of film, even-and especially-in its most positive form, is inconceivable without its destructive, cathartic side: the liquidation of the value of tradition in the cultural heritage. This phenomenon is most apparent in the great historical films. It is assimilating ever more advanced…
Pulp Fiction Movie Review & Film Summary (1994) | Roger Ebert Roger Ebert: “Quentin Tarantino is the Jerry Lee Lewis of cinema, a pounding performer who doesn’t care if he tears up the piano, as long as everybody is rocking. His new movie “Pulp Fiction” is a comedy about blood, guts, violence, strange sex, drugs,…
Flag-waving Chinese blockbuster Wolf Warriors 2 smashes cinema records A flag-waving Chinese action film depicting the country’s soldiers saving war-ravaged Africans from western baddies has become China’s all-time top box-office earner, headlining a summer of patriotic cinematic fare. The wildly popular Wolf Warriors 2 boasts the ominous tagline “whoever offends China will be hunted down…
The Films of Shohei Imamura – Harvard Film Archive Vanishing Points: The Films of Shohei Imamura “I am interested in the relationship of the lower part of the human body and the lower part of the social structure on which the reality of daily Japanese life supports itself.” – Shohei Imamura