No reasonably intelligent person imagines an artist's statement about the horrors in Gaza would, in fact, end those horrors, but there are always limits to wha...
Marking perhaps the greatest coup any festival's managed these last ten years, the Film Fest Gent––recently in our sights for their addition of Ryusuke Hamaguc...
Returning to documentary feature filmmaking for the first time since 2010's I Wish I Knew, Jia Zhangke's Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue charts a changing...
Far down the list of priorities and concerns though it may be, it is entirely inevitable that anybody with any connection to the film world, fan or studio head...
For more than two and a half decades, the films of Jia Zhangke have given the world a poetic and deeply personal account of the shifting social plains of moder...
Of all the monumental parts that tend to constitute the films of Jia Zhangke–the shifting socio-economic landscapes; the departing mountains; Zhao Tao–none has...
The latest Jia Zhangke film to arrive in the United States is technically not a new film, but rather a director’s cut of his 2010 documentary, I Wish I Knew. W...
World premiering at Berlinale shortly is a new film from Jia Zhangke titled Swimming out till the Sea Turns Blue, following his masterful Ash Is Purest White, ...
We had the chance to speak with the celebrated filmmaker in Hamburg about his approach to filmmaking, streamers versus cinema, and his experiences at film festivals. ...
It's not a decades-spanning crime drama or speculative sci-fi whatsit, but new films from Jia Zhangke are of note no matter the form. (Being one of the ten ...