Jinpa (China, 2018) [VIFF 2018]
Jinpa (played by actor/poet of the same name) drives a lorry along a Tibetan plateau. He comes across like a truck-driving rock star, dressed in...
The Hong Kong Second Wave and their Fascination with the 1960s [DCCFF 2017]
During the mid-1980s, there was a subtle handover between the first and second Hong Kong new cinemas. After the first wavers spent the late 1970s...
Call for Guest Bloggers – Chinese Cinema of the 1980s & 1990s
In collaboration with the DC Chinese Film Festival, VCinema is seeking guest bloggers for a series of posts on the theme of Chinese Cinema of...
Preview – Creative Visions: Hong Kong Cinema 1997-2017, TIFF Bell Lightbox, June 23-25
In partnership with Create Hong Kong and the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society with support from the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in...
Dance in Wong Kar-wai’s Films
Moments of a film that linger with a spectator long after initial viewing are also the reasons why one returns to that film: to rediscover those moments,...
The Grandmaster (Hong Kong, 2013)
There is a lot of critical weight attached to a Wong Kar-Wai picture. Like all auteurs, Wong has, over the last three decades, crafted a...