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- 8/8/2017
- by Reggie Peralta
- Film-Book
It’s possible that no frequent pairing of helmer and star in contemporary cinema — or, for that matter, creative union of husband and wife — is quite as fruitful as Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao‘s, and their new picture, Mountains May Depart, is potentially their most impactful yet. A three-part epic about the China of the recent past, contemporary moment, and near future that explores as many aspect ratios as it does decades, it’s a film whose large ambition, courtesy Jia’s continued fascination with wherever his native nation might stand and where it could go, is given a human face by Zhao’s magnetic presence and perceptible absence.
Shortly after seeing their project at last year’s New York Film Festival, I was fortunate enough to interview the pair and probe this film’s many layers, from recent changes in language and communication formats to evolving forms of digital video.
Shortly after seeing their project at last year’s New York Film Festival, I was fortunate enough to interview the pair and probe this film’s many layers, from recent changes in language and communication formats to evolving forms of digital video.
- 2/10/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
It was only five months ago when one of our correspondents participated in a roundtable interview with Hou Hsiao-hsien, but the opportunity to sit down one-on-one with a filmmaker so great and so elusive (this was his first New York press tour in at least ten years) is impossible to ignore. His latest picture, The Assassin, remains mysterious — not necessarily confusing, as we get into — after two viewings, but, even if I hated it, my affection for his entire oeuvre would’ve provided much material.
There are, of course, issues that come with speaking through a translator, which cuts down on how much one might say and the ways things are communicated. (With time constraints always on your mind, a conversation that can expand past the question-and-answer process feels impossible.) But Hou is a lucid, open-minded artist with seemingly nothing to hide, and to speak to him about a...
There are, of course, issues that come with speaking through a translator, which cuts down on how much one might say and the ways things are communicated. (With time constraints always on your mind, a conversation that can expand past the question-and-answer process feels impossible.) But Hou is a lucid, open-minded artist with seemingly nothing to hide, and to speak to him about a...
- 10/14/2015
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
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