For those in the know, this film is an impressively delivered basket of Easter eggs. Though there is a narrative of sorts, ...

Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke combines fictional and documentary footage he shot over 20 years into an epic tale of romantic ...

Jia, however, doesn’t explicate the specific nature of their ... Qiaoqiao is no less alone and unhappy, as evidenced by an encounter with a cheery supermarket robot that inquires, “How are you today?” ...

“Because she’s such an independent individual, maybe the only way she can make friends is with a robot that knows nothing about her past.” With artificial intelligence now on his ...

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Jia is as freewheeling in his medium as Bob Dylan ... in which Qiaoqiao’s eyes-wide-shut viewing of the robot movie in 2006 presages her encountering a mechanized supermarket greeter circa ...

At 38 years of age, Jia Jia reached the human equivalent of a 114-year-old. The decision to euthanise this beloved creature was made by the park and Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation ...

Jia Zhangke has become the pre-eminent director of what’s known as the “Sixth Generation” of Chinese filmmakers. The Sixth Generation immediately separated themselves from their aging ...

In “Caught by the Tides,” the Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke tracks a woman, a couple and a country across two tumultuous, transformational decades. As emotionally effective as it is formally ...

Our critics picked 10 films that you might have missed but that are worth your time on this long holiday weekend.

“One day I wanted to look up the bloodline of Si Hai, and to my surprise, she is actually the great-granddaughter of Jia Jia, whom I cared for many years ago,” the 48-year-old said.

During the pandemic, the Chinese director Jia Zhangke, like many of us, had a lot of time on his hands. He began sifting through a personal archive consisting of footage that he had shot since 2001.