Joan Chen
2) 24 City
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The conversion of a state-owned munitions factory into luxury high-rise apartments allows for an acute appreciation of Socialism's impact on the Chinese people and the complex social changes transforming the country in this masterful new documentary from Jia Zhang-ke. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival**. "*One of the world's preeminent filmmakers. A masterful and moving portrait.*" -J. Hoberman, ***The Village Voice***
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
A Chinese immigrant, who is a widow, faces the New Year with apprehension after it was foretold that it would be the year she would die. All of the things she wants to do before she dies come into focus, including seeing her daughter married and visiting China one last time to pay her respects.
4) 1911
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of the 20th century, China is in a state of crisis. The country is split into warring factions, the citizens are starving, and recent political reforms have made matters worse, not better. The ruling Qing Dynasty, led by a seven-year-old emperor, is completely out of touch after 250 years of unquestioned power. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, with no expense spared in production and no detail ignored...
Series
Criterion collection volume 422
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
A dramatic history of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three became the last of the Emperors of China. Chronicles his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, as the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; and his exploitation by the invading Japanese as the ruler of Manchukuo from 1932 to 1945. He returned to public life in 1959, just another peasant worker in...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Thai
Description
A re-make of the Indian/Malaysian film Drishyam, this Chinese box-office blockbuster is a Hollywood-esque cat-and-mouse crime thriller. Working family man and self-described movie-geek Li (Xiao Yang) is thrown into a battle of wits with the law after his daughter accidentally kills, and his wife hurriedly buries, a fellow student who had sexually molested her. The dead boy's father is an ambitious politician, and his mother (Twin Peaks' Joan Chen)...