Despite a series of issues the whole Chinese language movie world is experiencing (intense censorship, the recent disqualification of “A Light Never Goes...
Tag - Wei Shujun
2023 was a weird year for Asian cinema. Although the “usual” Japanese masters were here once more (Miyazaki, Koreeda, Hamaguchi), the Korean movie...
About HKIFF and its various streams, its financial and audience details, the changes the festival and cinema have undergone, his work with Berlin and Locarno...
It was a weird year for Busan in terms of selection, particularly because this time, there were no definite masterpieces particularly among the Korean and...
On the occasion of his presence at the Busan International Film Festival, Wei Shujun talks about adapting “Mistakes by the River” for “Only...
As we have mentioned in the past, Chinese cinema has a knack of producing crime films that unfold in a distinct art house style, with titles like “Black Coal...
This year's edition of Cannes film festival offered a number of high quality titles from Asia, both in competiton(s) and side bar programmes. One of the most...
About his motives to tackle up the story based on a barely known novel, his inspiration to adapt it to a different narrative, and the many intersting choices...