The Spring Festival (also called the Lunar New Year and sometimes the Chinese New Year), has for some years now been a period when Chinese films got to dominate the box-office without the interference of foreign films (though not completely free from foreigners). Not only does Chinese films dominate because of the more obvious reason […]
Tag: science fiction
Passengers (Morten Tyldum, 2016)
I Morten Tyldums Passengers blandas intergalaktisk nybyggarromantik med en inte helt oproblematisk hyllning till tvåsamheten. I det hypertekniska rymdskeppet Avalon färdas Jim Preston och Aurora Lane, samt cirka 5000 passagerare till, mot den privatägda planeten Homestead II där de ska börja sitt nya liv. I en resa som ska ta 120 år vaknar Jim och […]
The Secret of Immortal Code 《伊阿索密码》(Li Wei & Zhang Nan, 2018)
Any cinema goer who is slightly familiar with Blade Runner and Alien will quickly see that director Li Wei (李伟) and Zhang Nan (张楠) has taken many of the film themes from these two science fiction classics. Lacking in both suspense, fear and angst of solitude and isolation, and a believable desolate dystopian world The […]
The Silver Winged Killer: “Blade Runner” in China
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, […]
Chinese Science Fiction Filmography (1958 – 2016)
As the Great Leap Forward were in its inception phase the first science fiction film, now available to watch, was released in China. The Ming Tombs Reservoir (Jin Shan/金山, 十三陵水库畅想曲) seemed like a suitable movie to start off the Great Leap Forward campaign with its utopian imagining – in the last 20 minutes of the […]
The Year of Chinese Scifi and Zhang Panpan
When it was announced that Liu Cixins novel Three Body was gonna be made in to film scifi-fans around the world were excited about the news. For a short while some Chinese fans also discussed the idea of Christopher Nolan being the director of the film mostly because of Interstellar recent success in mainland China. […]
A survey of Chinese films influence on the international market
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 […]