Call for Entries – The 5th DC Chinese Film Festival
The 5th DC Chinese Film Festival (DCCFF)-Alula Film Festival is excited to announce the official Call for Entries. Submissions are now accepted on FilmFreeway until...
Preview – On Both Sides of the Camera: Women in Film Retrospective, Washington, D.C., November 7-10
The D.C. Chinese Film Festival will be working in collaboration with the One International Women’s Film Festival to present a retrospective of Chinese language film...
The Power of Zhang Yimou’s Metaphors and Colour Symbolism in Raise the Red Lantern (1991) [DCCFF 2017]
When we speak of Zhang Yimou, a leading light of China’s so-called Fifth Generation of filmmakers, many people immediately conjure up sumptuous imagery from the...
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...
Fleeting Romance in the Throes of Development: Lou Ye’s Suzhou River (2000) [DCCFF 2017]
Lou Ye’s breakthrough feature Suzhou River intertwines the destinies of two couples. Mardar (Jia Hongsheng) is a motorcycle courier and small-time criminal who becomes romantically...
In Defence of Wang Tung’s Nativist Trilogy: The Black Sheep of the Taiwanese New Cinema [DCCFF 2017]
For most fans of the Taiwanese new cinema, the only trilogies that probably matter are those from Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang. There is however...
Leslie Cheung: Blamefully Beautiful
Leslie Cheung was a megastar by almost any standard, posthumously named the world’s third most iconic singer by CNN in 2010 (following only Michael Jackson...
A Short Meditation on “Whatever”: Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong (1997) [DCCFF 2017]
When Wu Jing’s Wolf Warrior 2 (2017) has brought itself on par with the best of Hong Kong cinema’s kung-fu, shoot-outs, car chases, and romance...
Critiquing the Post Isolationist Chinese Youth Film [DCCFF 2017]
As China adjusted to post-isolationism in the 1980s, radical new societal narratives emerged and the role of youth during this metamorphosis became prominent in mainstream...
The Sophisticated Shocks of Red to Kill (1994) [DCCFF 2017]
CAT III films are important part of Hong Kong cinema. CAT refers to the rating category and number three to the highest rating possible.[1] The...