Zhang Ke Jia
-
Thompson on Hollywood0 commentslike0tweet0
Cannes Deal UPDATE: Sony Pictures Classics Gobbles Up 'The Lunch Box,' Critics Week Audience Winner
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up all North American distribution rights to Ritesh Batra's "The Lunchbox," starring Irrfhan Khan ("The Life of Pi"). The film centers on a mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system, and the budding relationship between a young housew...
Read More » -
The Playlist0 commentslike0tweet0
Cannes Review: 'A Touch Of Sin' Sees Jia Zhang-ke Change Things Up, With Peculiar, Bloody Results
Ooh-ed and aah-ed over, but largely in more arcane cinephile circles, Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke (Venice winner “Still Life,” Cannes 2012 doc ”I Wish I Knew,” “The World”) has made a name for himself to date with detailed, glacially paced, social realist films, often in the documentary tradition,...
Read More » -
Press Play0 commentslike0tweet0
CANNES 2013: Jia Zhang-ke's A TOUCH OF SIN
Jia Zhang-ke sees modern day China as an expansive minefield of potential narratives, each one ready to trigger its own perspective on the countless institutional and societal issues that ultimately impact identity, gender roles, and economic expansion.
Read More » -
The Playlist2 commentslike3tweet7
Walter Salles Talks The Influence Of Fathers In 'On The Road,' Working With Jose Rivera, Writing A Book About Jia Zhang Ke & More
On the fifth floor of the Hotel deLuxe in Portland, Oregon, Walter Salles seems content to talk at length about cinema. But alas, two publicists, worried the loquacious “On the Road” director will miss his train up to Seattle for another round of press and screenings of his latest film, a long-in-th...
Read More »
fresh from the blogs
-
Every Pixar Movie Is About the Same ThingCriticwire
-
Review: 'A Hijacking' Is A Detailed, Gripping & Powerful ...The Playlist
-
Nice Looking Lineup Of Docs On Film Society's SOUND ...Shadow and Act
-
'Fifty Shades of Grey' Gets a Woman Director, Green ...Thompson on Hollywood
-
Two is Just Too Many Women for Spiderman to Deal W ...Women and Hollywood
-
Beautiful and Claustrophobic: MAD MEN’s InfernoPress Play
-
Good Night, Lost Boy(s)The Lost Boys
-
The Real Lone Ranger—At AuctionLeonard Maltin
on 
