owencenli (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} owencenli) wrote,@ 2008-05-05 00:04:00 |
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jia zhang ke movie, immigrant detainee deaths
Folks should look at this: deaths of immigrant detainees 2004-2007
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/p
The accompanying article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/nyreg
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I just watched "Still Life" at the SF Int'l Film Festival, the fourth Jia Zhang Ke movie I've ever seen (he has many others but none got enough distribution for them to be accessible). I have conflicted feelings about the film. I feel like the gaze in this film is more of a foreign one - although this can be said of pretty much any Chinese director that's gotten western distribution, I felt like his earlier films didn't have that kind of film festival audience appeal. He's also becoming more of an auteur and his films are becoming more intentionally allegorical - which I'm not sure how I feel about. Regardless, it's still a brilliant movie. It's playing one more time at the PFA tuesday night 8:45. It sounds like it's also going to come out on DVD, although the setting of the movie really makes it worth it to watch on a big screen.
Folks should look at this: deaths of immigrant detainees 2004-2007
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/p
The accompanying article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/nyreg
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I just watched "Still Life" at the SF Int'l Film Festival, the fourth Jia Zhang Ke movie I've ever seen (he has many others but none got enough distribution for them to be accessible). I have conflicted feelings about the film. I feel like the gaze in this film is more of a foreign one - although this can be said of pretty much any Chinese director that's gotten western distribution, I felt like his earlier films didn't have that kind of film festival audience appeal. He's also becoming more of an auteur and his films are becoming more intentionally allegorical - which I'm not sure how I feel about. Regardless, it's still a brilliant movie. It's playing one more time at the PFA tuesday night 8:45. It sounds like it's also going to come out on DVD, although the setting of the movie really makes it worth it to watch on a big screen.
