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Game recognizes game: Martin Scorsese once called Jia Zhangke’s body of work “the finest, toughest, most vitally alive work in modern moviemaking.” It’s a high compliment, but Jia’s cinema—not only ...

Zhao Tao stars as a woman searching for a lost lover in an epic, lyrical drama that is both Chinese master Jia's career-retrospective reinvention and a defining portrait of modern China. And so it is ...

Jia Zhangke, China’s quintessential indie director, says that the COVID-era lockdowns gave him a chance to rethink and review the miles of footage that he has shot over more than 20 years of ...

Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke is set to begin production on his next feature in December, marking a shift toward contemporary storytelling after his recent trilogy spanning decades of Chinese social ...

Stalwart Sixth Generation Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke leads his partner and muse, Zhao Tao, on a decades-long romantic odyssey in Caught By the Tides, which tries too hard to play with time and form ...

Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides” is less than two hours long and yet contains nearly a quarter-century of time’s relentless march forward. Few films course with history the way it does in the ...

Would I rather be watching “Still Life” again at the IFC Center this weekend or going to Sundance to drown in a sea of cinematic mediocrity? Okay, the question isn’t entirely fair. There’s always a ...

An urgent, compelling debut detailing a Hepatitis B scandal in China and the underdog reporter who exposed it, produced by Jia Zhangke. From “All the President’s Men” to “Spotlight,” American films ...

Jia Zhangke, who has emerged as one of the great artists from the “Sixth Generation” of Chinese filmmakers, is one of those directors whose work will always be embraced and discussed by a number of ...

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