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Headlines from China: Fan Bingbing’s First Public Appearance in 2019

Apr 23, 2019 / Headlines From China /

On April 22, actress Fan Bingbing attended the ceremony of streaming platform iQiyi's 9th anniversary. This is her first public appearance in 2019 after she was caught up in tax evasion scandal. Read More

Filmmaker Johnny Ma Wants You to Fall in Love With ’90s Chinese Cinema

Feb 2, 2017 / News /

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on the site of the Toronto International Film Festival, in conjunction with TIFF’s annual Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival. A Chinese “psychic” once told me… or, more specifically, it was my uncle, who used to run the Beijing department of the “People with Specials Powers” (as it was called Read More

Film Review: ‘Old Stone’ is Neorealist Noir

Nov 30, 2016 / Reviews /

"Old Stone" (Lao Shi/老石), the debut feature by Chinese-Canadian director Johnny Ma, makes a kind of hybrid neorealist noir, something akin to the rising, ultra-unreal (chaohuan) sensibility, through the story of a hapless taxi driver, the titular Lao Shi, whose desire to act morally is at every turn thwarted by an inhuman system. Read More

Headlines from China: Fan Bingbing’s First Public Appearance in 2019

Filmmaker Johnny Ma Wants You to Fall in Love With ’90s Chinese Cinema

Film Review: ‘Old Stone’ is Neorealist Noir

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