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The Farewell *** (2019, Shuzhen Zhao, Awkwafina, Diana Lin, X Mayo) – Movie Review
When a Chinese family discovers their beloved grandmother Nai Nai (Shuzhen Zhao) has only a short while to live, they decide not to tell her, and they stage an impromptu wedding as a cover for […]
Dragon Seed ** (1944, Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Turhan Bey, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff, Hurd Hatfield, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 8813
MGM’s 1944 propaganda drama film Dragon Seed is a failed bid to film the hit Pearl S Buck novel about the Chinese being forced to cope with Japanese invaders. It stars a miscast Katharine Hepburn, […]
Satan Never Sleeps * (1962, Clifton Webb, William Holden, France Nuyen, Athene Seyler) – Classic Movie Review 8124
Satan Never Sleeps…but you may. Director Leo McCarey bows out on a real low spot in 1962 with this gobsmackingly boring tale about two priests (Clifton Webb as Father Bovard, William Holden as Father O’Banion) […]
The Road Home [Wo de fu qin mu qin] **** (1999, Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hao Zheng) – Classic Movie Review 7887
There is superb acting in Zhang Yimou’s heart-rending, exquisitely realised 1999 Chinese film The Road Home, a tale of pure and simple love that does not put a foot wrong and will have hardly a […]
The Big Parade [Da yue bing] **** (1986, Wang Xueqi, Sun Chun, Lei Lu) – Classic Movie Review 7886
Director Chen Kaige’s 1986 The Big Parade [Da yue bing] is a Chinese film with a subject that is familiar and easy to relate to – an army drama in which a large group of […]
Yellow Earth [Huang Tu Di] **** (1984, Xueqi Wang, Xue Bai, Tan Tuo, Liu Qiang) – Classic Movie Review 7885
Director Chen Kaige’s remarkable and challenging 1984 Chinese film Yellow Earth [Huang Tu Di] is based on the novel by Lan Ke about a communist soldier, Quing Gu (Xueqi Wang), who comes to a tiny […]
The Story of Qiu Ju [Qiu Ju da guan si] **** (1992, Gong Li, Liu Peiqi, Yang Liuchun, Lei Kesheng) – Classic Movie Review 7881
Director Zhang Yimou’s 1992 The Story of Qiu Ju [Qiu Ju da guan si] is a strongly allegorical tale from the director of Red Sorghum, Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern, which differs from […]