Title: The World Year: 2004 Director: Jia Zhangke Cast: Zhao Tao, Jue Jing, Cheng Taishen, Jiang Zhong-Wei Synopsis: Tao, a young dancer, and her security guard boyfriend, Taisheng, both work at the unusual international mishmash called Beijing’s World Park. An...
Title: Unknown Pleasures Year: 2003 Director: Jia Zhangke Cast: Wei Wei Zhao, Qiong Wu, Zhao Tao, Qing Feng Zhou Synopsis: Xiao Ji (Wu) and Bin Bin (Wei Zhao) are two aimless loners from China’s Shanxi province whose lives are turned...
Ash Is Purest White, Jia Zhangke’s massively stunning, bittersweet new film, takes place over the course of roughly seventeen years, covering most of the twenty-first century so far. There’s a subtle running joke in which each chronological leap ahead is...
