Thirty years after winning the Palme d’Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, Chen Kaige’s decades-spanning love story Farewell My Concubine is being brought back to theaters with a new 4K restoration in the full director’s cut never before seen […]

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In the new documentary Leftover Women, we meet three such embarrassingly ancient souls, all working professionals

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As Wang digs deep into the past, she uncovers shocking secrets that many would prefer never be revealed. But here they are, and the result is a documentary both moving and profoundly horrifying

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It’s an inspiring look at the resilience of the human spirit under China’s totalitarian rule, but also a fascinating look at generational differences that have ringing similarities to the western world.

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While Summer Pasture qualifies as a work of ethnography, its overflowing humanity makes it something altogether more tender and sweet.

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For all its flaws, it's an urgent, impassioned, necessary work.

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If the Sarasota Film Festival isn’t my very favorite festival of them all, it’s certainly hovering right near the tippy-top. I’m sure that sounds like a fishy statement to make considering my girlfriend is Director of Programming Holly Herrick, not […]

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