After three unsanctioned productions steeped in regional detail—each one a masterpiece—Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke goes at once aboveground and global. Set in the 35-year-old director’s native ...

Jia’s debut feature Xiao Wu (Pickpocket) set the tone for much of his filmography, with its gritty focus on the urban poor in Shanxi, the director’s home province, against a backdrop of China’s ...

After three unsanctioned productions steeped in regional detail, Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke goes at once above ground and global. Set in the director’s native province of Shanxi, Xiao Wu (1997), ...

The release of Jia Zhangke's Hometown Trilogy, a trio of books based on three films that the director made about his hometown; Xiao Wu (1997), Platform (2000) and Unknown Pleasure (2002), took place ...