Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Cannes coverage. Caught by the Tides opens in theaters on May 9.
Jia Zhangke's is often a cin...
Caught by the Tides is that much-sought, almost-never-fulfilled encounter with something I can't be 100% certain is real. Audacious in concept (assembling a ne...
His first narrative feature in six years, featuring footage collected over some two decades, Jia Zhangke's Caught by the Tides is one of the filmmaker's greate...
Jia Zhang-ke could fairly claim to be the most important filmmaker of his generation; he'd probably be the last person to do so. Audiences tend to scan Jia’s w...
Update: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Tahar Rahim, Swann Arlaud, Ariane Labed, and more have signed a letter asking French President Emmanuel Macron to rec...
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...
