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The 62nd edition of the New York Film Festival will kick off with RaMell Ross’s “Nickel Boys,” an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys.”

Film at Lincoln Center made the announcement early Monday and notably didn’t specify a premiere designation for the film, perhaps an indication that “Nickel Boys” will have its world premiere at another festival such as the Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, or Venice Film Festival.

“What an absolute honor for ‘Nickel Boys’ to open the 62nd New York Film Festival… a daydream really, for the crew, the cast, and team who’ve committed so wholeheartedly to its vision,” Ross said in a statement. The filmmaker’s debut documentary, “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” was previously screened at the 2018 edition of New Directors/New Films at New York City’s Lincoln Center. Ross called his debut feature...

Following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival Film, Noah Baumbach’s feature take of Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel White Noise will also open the 60th New York Film Festival, making its North American premiere at Alice Tully Hall on September 30.

In the Netflix movie, Adam Driver plays Jack Gladney, an ostentatious “Hitler Studies” professor and father-of-four whose comfortable suburban college town life and marriage to the secretive Babette (Greta Gerwig) are upended after a horrifying nearby accident creates an airborne toxic event of frightening and unknowable proportions. DeLillo’s novel is known for being a pop-philosophical nightmare on unbounded consumerism, ecological catastrophe, and the American obsession with death.

“In 1985 my father and I drove from Brooklyn to see Kurosawa’s Ran open the 23rd NYFF, the same year that he brought home the hardback of Don DeLillo’s White Noise,” said Baumbach. “Opening the 60th NYFF with White...

From Legendary Director Zhang Yimou Comes His Academy Award® And Golden Globe® Nominee, A Thrilling And Sumptuously Stylized Potboiler About The Chinese Criminal Underworld Of The ’30s Shanghai Triad Street Date: August 4, 2020 Blu-ray/DVD/Digital: $29.95/$19.95 The Digitally Restored 1995 Classic, Starring Gong-Li, is Available on Blu-ray in North America for the Very First Time; …

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Director Zhang Yimou’s acclaimed feature Shanghai Triad, which was the winner of the National Board of Review’s “Best Foreign Film,” is hitting Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital August 4 via Film Movement. The 1995 feature has been digitally restored.

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"This is Shanghai. There are hidden rules in everything you do and say." Film Movement has unveiled a new trailer for the restored re-release of Zhang Yimou's Shanghai Triad, celebrating 25 years since its original release in 1995. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995, then opened in Us cinemas in December that year. It won a special prize for Best Cinematography in Cannes, then went on to earn an Oscar nomination also for Best Cinematography. In the film, a provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord's mistress. Over the course of seven days, he observes mounting tensions as triad boss Tang begins to suspect traitors amongst his ranks. Shanghai Triad is described as "a thrilling and sumptuously stylized potboiler about the Chinese criminal underworld of the 1930s from legendary director Zhang Yimou.

Zhang Yimou is one of the most acclaimed Chinese filmmakers working today. His work is universally beloved with many of his features becoming hits worldwide, including “Hero” and “House of Flying Daggers.” And fans of the filmmaker won’t want to miss Film Movement’s upcoming re-release of the director’s gangster classic “Shanghai Triad.”

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In honor of “Shanghai Triad” being released in Virtual Cinemas and select theaters this summer, we’re thrilled to give our readers an exclusive look at the trailer for the film.

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This last week in April has seen, with Avengers: Endgame and the Battle of Winterfell episode of Game of Thrones, the culmination on the largest scale possible in our fractured culture of a long-simmering trend in American action filmmaking away from color in favor of a grim, murky, monochrome darkness. The TV show was immediately criticized for being nigh unwatchable on a normal television, its images being so dark and cluttered with digital artifacts, while the Marvel movie chose to stage its splash page final battle, the climax of a decade of franchise-building, not as a triumph of four-color majesty but as a dull smear of muddy gray. I’m not sure where exactly the trend started, it might have been when Tim Burton’s shadowy Batman movies outpaced Warren Beatty’s lively Dick Tracy, or it might have been when the pseudo-realism of Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan...

‘Shadow’ climbs one place to second.

Following a rather disappointing weeklong National Day holiday, the second week of October (Oct 8-14) remained weak as it shrunk by 65.8% week-on-week.

The National Day titles continued to dominate the chart, with no new releases in the top five. Felix Chong’s Project Gutenberg, with Chow Yun Fatt and Aaron Kwok, topped again on $36.6m.

Its 15-day total of $133.9m has made it the eighth highest grossing local film of 2018 as well as the top grossing Hong Kong cop and crime thriller, surpassing 2016’s Cold War 2. But it is only about half of that...

Whatever you think of his checkered oeuvre, Zhang Yimou is undeniably a maestro of modern Chinese cinema. Few could match the international acclaim or box office success earned by the 66-year-old director, whose artistic path mirrors the breathtaking steps made in Chinese history and film industry. While his early works helped catapult Chinese cinema to the global festival spotlight, his middle phase led the way in commercial blockbusters with Chinese characteristics.

Zhang will receive the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award in Venice ahead of the out-of-competition screening of “Shadow”on Sept. 6.

The allure of Zhang’s filmmaking often comes from the screen divas and captivating female roles he cultivates. Gong Li, who collaborated with him nine times, remains the most luminous presence. So good is he at plucking talent out of obscurity that every time a new project is announced, the media eagerly awaits the next “Mou Girl.”

Born in 1950 in Xi’an,...

A story about loyalty, love, betrayal and revenge. The Wasted Times captures all the ins and outs of the organized crime business during the late 30’s with absolute care and elegance. Starring Ge You, Tadanobu Asano, Zhang Ziyi, Gillian Chung and Chun Du among others, this film resembles classic crime drama in a good way.

Directed by the same director who made the surprisingly great “Lethal Hostage” some years ago with Sun Honglei, comes “The Wasted Times”, a film about the organized crime in Shanghai in the late 30s, just at the beginning of a possible open war against the Japanese. The film was hanging around at festivals such as the Asian Film Awards, where it was nominated for cinematography and costume design; at the China Film Director’s Guild Awards in several important categories and ended winning the Best Director award; and it also made its...

NEW YORK -- International stars Chow Yun-Fat and Gong Li soon will be returning to American shores. Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American and Latin American rights to House of Flying Daggers director Zhang Yimou's martial-arts romantic drama Curse of the Golden Flower. The feature, shooting in China, follows the medieval saga of a dysfunctional royal family led by a king (Chow) and queen (Gong) engaging in power struggles with their three sons and each other. Zhang's Daggers and Hero action choreographer Tony Ching Siu-Tung returns for similar duties in this film, which also reunites the director with Gong (Raise the Red Lantern, Shanghai Triad). This is the director's ninth project with Sony Pictures Classics, which hasn't yet set a release date for the film.

NEW YORK -- International stars Chow Yun-Fat and Gong Li soon will be returning to American shores. Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North American and Latin American rights to House of Flying Daggers director Zhang Yimou's martial-arts romantic drama Curse of the Golden Flower. The feature, shooting in China, follows the medieval saga of a dysfunctional royal family led by a king (Chow) and queen (Gong) engaging in power struggles with their three sons and each other. Zhang's Daggers and Hero action choreographer Tony Ching Siu-Tung returns for similar duties in this film, which also reunites the director with Gong (Raise the Red Lantern, Shanghai Triad). This is the director's ninth project with Sony Pictures Classics, which hasn't yet set a release date for the film.

BEIJING -- Coming off the quiet "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles," director Zhang Yimou will use 20,000 Chinese soldiers as extras when he begins shooting Autumn Remembrance in February, producers said. For a Chinese film, the budget also is super-sized at 360 million yuan ($44 million), topping the $30 million spent by director Chen Kaige on Master of the Crimson Armor, China's official submission for the upcoming Academy Awards and the most expensive Chinese film made to date. To be co-produced by Hong Kong hitmaker Bill Kong (House of Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Remembrance will star Chow Yun-Fat. Negotiations with Gong Li for another key role are under way. The film marks the first collaboration between Zhang and Gong since Shanghai Triad in 1995.

BEIJING -- Coming off the quiet "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles," director Zhang Yimou will use 20,000 Chinese soldiers as extras when he begins shooting Autumn Remembrance in February, producers said. For a Chinese film, the budget also is super-sized at 360 million yuan ($44 million), topping the $30 million spent by director Chen Kaige on Master of the Crimson Armor, China's official submission for the upcoming Academy Awards and the most expensive Chinese film made to date. To be co-produced by Hong Kong hitmaker Bill Kong (House of Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Remembrance will star Chow Yun-Fat. Negotiations with Gong Li for another key role are under way. The film marks the first collaboration between Zhang and Gong since Shanghai Triad in 1995.

BEIJING -- Coming off the quiet "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles," director Zhang Yimou will use 20,000 Chinese soldiers as extras when he begins shooting Autumn Remembrance in February, producers said. For a Chinese film, the budget also is super-sized at 360 million yuan ($44 million), topping the $30 million spent by director Chen Kaige on Master of the Crimson Armor, China's official submission for the upcoming Academy Awards and the most expensive Chinese film made to date. To be co-produced by Hong Kong hitmaker Bill Kong (House of Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Remembrance will star Chow Yun-Fat. Negotiations with Gong Li for another key role are under way. The film marks the first collaboration between Zhang and Gong since Shanghai Triad in 1995.