When Film4 published a list of their “100 Must-See Films of the 21st Century” and only bothered to include two Chinese films (Yi yi and In the Mood for Love, of course), I countered with this list on letterboxd of 100 Must-See Chinese…

Hong Sangsoo

Don’t Take Pictures: The Films of Hong Sangsoo — January 29, 2018
Hong Sangsoo: Director of the Decade — November 30, 2019

A couple months ago I was asked to write this brief overview of the state of contemporary Chinese language cinema for the Estonian arts magazine Sirp. You can read this essay in Estonian on their website, and here, with their kind permission, is the original English language version.

The Wasted Times (Cheng Er, 2016)

The Wasted Times was originally slated to be released in October of 2015. The film’s trailer has…