After months of build-up involving heightened censorship, a propaganda blitz, and a flurry of patriotic film, TV and music content, the Chinese Communist Party at last celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding on Thursday.
It marked the occasion with political speeches, a highly choreographed mass commemoration in Tiananmen Square, the broadcast of a jingoistic performance extravaganza featuring top celebs and the release of new propaganda blockbusters, among other measures.
A reported 70,000-strong crowd gathered at Tiananmen Square on Thursday morning for the occasion, waving flags, singing patriotic songs and chanting slogans in unison like, “Listen to the party,” “be grateful to the party” and “follow the party!”
More than four dozen cannons were fired 100 times in a salute, while scores of military helicopters and fighter jets performed flybys in formation overhead, coordinating to form the number “100,” trailed colored smoke or unfurled red banners.
Attendees sat facing the Gate of Heavenly Peace,...
It marked the occasion with political speeches, a highly choreographed mass commemoration in Tiananmen Square, the broadcast of a jingoistic performance extravaganza featuring top celebs and the release of new propaganda blockbusters, among other measures.
A reported 70,000-strong crowd gathered at Tiananmen Square on Thursday morning for the occasion, waving flags, singing patriotic songs and chanting slogans in unison like, “Listen to the party,” “be grateful to the party” and “follow the party!”
More than four dozen cannons were fired 100 times in a salute, while scores of military helicopters and fighter jets performed flybys in formation overhead, coordinating to form the number “100,” trailed colored smoke or unfurled red banners.
Attendees sat facing the Gate of Heavenly Peace,...
- 7/1/2021
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The airplane runs into turbulence, the seatbelt announcement sounds, and Yaojun (Wang Jingchun) and his wife Liyun (Yong Mei) automatically clutch hands. The rough air passes, the craft steadies and their hands unclasp. “Isn’t it funny,” says Liyun, whose hair is finally graying at the temples, but whose unlined face has been made somehow more serene by sadness, “that we are still afraid of dying?”
Sixth Generation Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai’s utterly wrenching, decades-spanning intimate epic “So Long, My Son” has few enough such moments, in which the stoic characters talk about how they feel, much less overtly acknowledge their helplessness against fate or social engineering or air pressure or ideology or any of the other million uncontrollable forces bearing down on them as ordinary Chinese people living quietly at the end of the last century. And so when these moments come, they land like little bombs.
Wang...
Sixth Generation Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai’s utterly wrenching, decades-spanning intimate epic “So Long, My Son” has few enough such moments, in which the stoic characters talk about how they feel, much less overtly acknowledge their helplessness against fate or social engineering or air pressure or ideology or any of the other million uncontrollable forces bearing down on them as ordinary Chinese people living quietly at the end of the last century. And so when these moments come, they land like little bombs.
Wang...
- 2/14/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Drama Di Jiu Tian Chang stars Wang Jingchun, Yong Mei and Qi Xi.
Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai has completed principal photography on Di Jiu Tian Chang, the first instalment in a ‘Homeland trilogy’ spanning China over the past 40 years.
Filmed for three months in different cities across China, the drama stars Wang Jingchun (Black Coal, Thin Ice), Yong Mei (The Assassin) and Qi Xi (Mystery), as well as rising actors Du Jiang (The Wasted Times) and Wang Yuan.
Much wider in scale than Wang’s (pictured) previous work, the film follows two families through the huge changes in Chinese society since the economic reforms of the early 1980s. Initially close, the families are forced to become estranged following an unexpected and unspoken event.
Wang co-wrote the script with Amei, whose credits include Zhang Yimou’s Under The Hawthorn Tree.
Wang’s last film, Red Amnesia, premiered at Venice in 2014. His credits also include critically-acclaimed dramas 11 Flowers (2011), Shanghai Dreams...
Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai has completed principal photography on Di Jiu Tian Chang, the first instalment in a ‘Homeland trilogy’ spanning China over the past 40 years.
Filmed for three months in different cities across China, the drama stars Wang Jingchun (Black Coal, Thin Ice), Yong Mei (The Assassin) and Qi Xi (Mystery), as well as rising actors Du Jiang (The Wasted Times) and Wang Yuan.
Much wider in scale than Wang’s (pictured) previous work, the film follows two families through the huge changes in Chinese society since the economic reforms of the early 1980s. Initially close, the families are forced to become estranged following an unexpected and unspoken event.
Wang co-wrote the script with Amei, whose credits include Zhang Yimou’s Under The Hawthorn Tree.
Wang’s last film, Red Amnesia, premiered at Venice in 2014. His credits also include critically-acclaimed dramas 11 Flowers (2011), Shanghai Dreams...
- 12/19/2017
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Drama Di Jiu Tian Chang stars Wang Jingchun, Yong Mei and Qi Xi.
Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai has completed principal photography on Di Jiu Tian Chang, the first instalment in a ‘Homeland trilogy’ spanning China over the past 40 years.
Filmed for three months in different cities across China, the drama stars Wang Jingchun (Black Coal, Thin Ice), Yong Mei (The Assassin) and Qi Xi (Mystery), as well as rising actors Du Jiang (The Wasted Times) and Wang Yuan.
Much wider in scale than Wang’s (pictured) previous work, the film follows two families through the huge changes in Chinese society since the economic reforms of the early 1980s. Initially close, the families are forced to become estranged following an unexpected and unspoken event.
Wang co-wrote the script with Amei, whose credits include Zhang Yimou’s Under The Hawthorn Tree.
Wang’s last film, Red Amnesia, premiered at Venice in 2014. His...
Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai has completed principal photography on Di Jiu Tian Chang, the first instalment in a ‘Homeland trilogy’ spanning China over the past 40 years.
Filmed for three months in different cities across China, the drama stars Wang Jingchun (Black Coal, Thin Ice), Yong Mei (The Assassin) and Qi Xi (Mystery), as well as rising actors Du Jiang (The Wasted Times) and Wang Yuan.
Much wider in scale than Wang’s (pictured) previous work, the film follows two families through the huge changes in Chinese society since the economic reforms of the early 1980s. Initially close, the families are forced to become estranged following an unexpected and unspoken event.
Wang co-wrote the script with Amei, whose credits include Zhang Yimou’s Under The Hawthorn Tree.
Wang’s last film, Red Amnesia, premiered at Venice in 2014. His...
- 12/19/2017
- by Liz Shackleton
- Screen Daily Test
China's first CG motion capture fantasy animated film L.O.R.D (Legend of Ravaging Dynasties) is poised to make a major breakthrough this summer and what better way to grab's everybody attention than to feature the gorgeous Fan Bingbing as a mystic warrior in its first teaser. Directed by Guo Jing Ming and based on his novel of the same name, the ambitious project from Original Force is produced entirely in CG with cutting edge 3D scanning system to create photorealistic digital substitutes for each actors. Other familiar faces to appear digitally include Yang Mi, Chen Xuedong, Kris Wu, Amber Kuo, William Chan, Yan Yikuan, Aarif Lee, Lin Yun, Wang Duo, and Wang Yuan. It's scheduled for theatrical release in China on September 30th....
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- 3/29/2016
- Screen Anarchy
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