Jia Zhangke

[Review] Crosscurrent

In the early minutes of Chinese director Yang Chao’s sophomore feature, a fish is thrown into a bowl of water somewhere along an anonymous riverbank, darkened w...

Where to Stream the Best Films of 2016

As 2016 winds down, like most cinephiles, we're looking to get our hands on the titles that may have slipped under the radar or simply gone unseen. With the...

[VIFF Review] Old Stone

Old Stone (Lao Shi) is a film wrapped around the gut-wrenching dilemma of a man who knows a moral choice but struggles to find the fortitude to carry through wi...

[Locarno Review] Bangkok Nites

Two echoing images. The film's very first, a reflection cast as our heroine, Luck (Subenja Pongkorn), stares into the glass window of a high-rise building as a ...