Tag: Director: Jia
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Retelling Stories: Jia Zhangke on Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
This interview was originally published at Mubi.
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“A Dance of Her Whole Life”: Zhao Tao on Mountains May Depart
This interview was originally published at Mubi.
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Jia Zhangke: Confronting the Darkness
Originally published at Mubi.
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Platform (2000)
With so many directors now throwing in their cameras with the “single-shot scenes from a fixed position” school of filmmaking, there’s a growing problem for those of us who believe that a fundamental job of critics is to accurately describe what we see. Films built almost entirely from images that would have been described traditionally as “establishing shots” beg the question: How does one describe and evaluate this kind of montage (if that’s even the right word)?
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2007 TIFF Day 3
Naomi Kawase’s Mourning Forest, Bela Tarr’s The Man from London, Jia Zhang-ke’s Useless, John Gianvito’s Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind, and Ute Aurand and Maria Lang’s The Butterfly in Winter.