Dibakar Banerjee has set a benchmark for quality in film-making. His topics are intense, which elicits shock and awe. KHOSLA KA GHOSLA and LOVE SEX AUR DHOKA did just that. SHANGHAI is his latest ...

Peter Chan Ho-sun's "She's Got No Name," which opened this year's Shanghai International Film Festival, represents one of the most tortuous paths from page to screen in recent memory. In an extensive ...

China's leading movie event featured everything from a first-time filmmaker from Laos to 92-year-old Japanese film legend Yoji Yamada, with industry forums also predicting future trends — like a bold ...

It’s always a delight when classic movies receive a 4K release. Sony’s The Lady from Shanghai 4K release brings Orson Welles‘ 1947 film noir to UHD for the first time. While it isn’t the director’s ...

From a crime thriller based on a real-life Chinese cash heist to the last feature from Japanese directing legend Yoji Yamada, there are potential gems scattered throughout the programming of China's ...

Members of the Russian movie industry may be personae non gratae at the great festivals of the West, but at the Shanghai International Film Festival, China’s most prestigious cinema event, they will ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

It was almost midnight, the time when cinemas are usually ushering out the last audiences of the night. But at the Shanghai Film Art Center on Saturday, movie fans were still pouring in. Some held ...

Shanghai and London reaffirmed their creative connection at BAFTA’s Princess Anne Theatre, as the 2025 Shanghai–London Screen Industry Forum gathered senior figures from both nations for an afternoon ...

Directed by Tom Dey, Shanghai Noon is set in the American West during the 19th century and sees two very different heroes, American outlaw Roy O’Bannon (Wilson) Chinese Imperial Guard Chon Wang (Chan) ...

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„Every city has his own Shanghai!“ „Shanghai Banzai“– it‘s an ironic short documentary about an old and poor district nearby Vilnius city centre called Snipiskes, which is also known as Shanghai. Film ...