Do you remember the film about the model worker Guo Mingyi (郭明义)? He got about 21 million followers on Chinese social media Weibo where he spreads love, empathy and communist rhetoric in a way that Lei Feng would have admired. You don’t remember that movie? It made a modest 20 million RMB on the box-office […]
Spoilers?: Of course, we’re talking about Blade Runner The Silver Winged Killer (or The Silver Wing Killer) is the Chinese name for Ridley Scott’s futuristic neo-noir Blade Runner where the measure of eye movements holds the key for a replicant continuing living or being retired. The kind of retirement you’re not looking forward to. Anyhow, […]
Making a film about Lei Feng in post-Mao times must seem like a very daring project seeing that the trivial and mundane life of the worlds most famous PLA-soldier would pale in comparison with action filled flicks such as The Taking of Tiger Mountain (Tsui Hark, 2014) and Operation Mekong (Dante Lam, 2016). A creative […]
This week and last weeks news about Chinese film has been overshadowed by the box-office results of Wu Jings (吴京) action film Wolf Warriors 《战狼》. The movie premiered last thursday (2 april) and has already entered the list of 100 most watched film in China as number 80. Compared to other domestic films box-office results for the […]
Yesterday Clifford Coonan wrote an article for The Hollywood Reporter concerning a survey conducted by the The Academy for International Communications of Chinese Culture (AICCC/中国文化国际传播实验中心). The report concluded that Chinese film still has a low attendance rate at foreign cinemas and that the most popular genre is Kung Fu and Comedy (?). I found the report […]
You’ve probably already heard the epigram “Rome wasn’t built in a day unless it was built in China during the 21st century”. It’s undeniable that things are developing at an incredible rate in China and many of the news covering China are precisely about this phenomenon. It may be about China as a new contender […]
