Ash is Purest White (China/Japan/France, 2018) [AFI FEST 2018]
Ash is Purest White is no exception within Jia Zhangke’s cinema in terms of its sweeping scope. Platform (2000) charted the late 1970s to the...
Jia Zhangke: A Guy From Fenyang (Brazil, 2014)
Like criss-crossing rail lines denoting movement both forwards and backwards, so the documentary Jia Zhangke: A Guy From Fenyang, directed by Walter Salles, focuses on...
Mountains May Depart (China, 2015)
It’s unlikely that Jia Zhangke will ever make a totally straight genre movie, but he has nonetheless been drawn to populist, even pulpy, narratives of...