TIFF Journal: Shadow
Zhang Yimou has lost favor of late with international audiences. His latest film, Shadow, manages to reclaim a bit of that luster.
Zhang Yimou has lost favor of late with international audiences. His latest film, Shadow, manages to reclaim a bit of that luster.
With China now the second largest market for Hollywood blockbusters and the country’s own industry cranking out massive spectacles that tend to be huge hits everywhere other than North America, it was only a matter of time b...
Although often lumped together with historical period pieces, the epic film as a genre is more commonly defined by featuring a central hero on a grand, ambitious journey. The stories are told in a large, sweeping scale full of spe...
After a few years away as an unexpected director of kung-fu epics (‘Hero’, ‘House of Flying Daggers’, etc.) and the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies, director Zhang Yimou returns to his roots. That means...
This first day of February brings us an eclectic slate of new Blu-ray releases. We’ve got remakes, classic animation, and some of this past year’s most overlooked films. Let’s see what might be worth buying, shal...
This weekend marks the end of summer and the end of the lucrative summer movie-going season, which we can all admit was, more or less, pants. If this weekend’s offerings are any indication, then the fall could be just as lou...