Blog Category - Film

Screen Time: Out with Avatar & Spacey in China
Today is your last chance to catch Avatar on a regular cinema screen, as all non-3D versions of the film are being...
Screen Time: Zhang's Big Year, Soft Power and Docos from North Korea
Zhang Yimou has rounded off an eventful year with a box-office success – his recently-released remake of the Coen Brothers’ Blood...
Screen Time: Another Red Dawn, Brody’s Best Films & James Cameron in Town
Welcome Screen Time, the Beijinger blog's regular film news column. It’s the end of the year – and end of the decade – which means roundup season. A...
I Want idox - Documentary Screenings & Forum
After long preparation, Beijing Channel Zero Media, with support from Goethe Institut, Holland Embassy and the Australian Embassy,...
Australian Cinema Rolls Into Town
Nicole Kidman. Russell Crowe. Guy Pierce. They're well known Hollywood stars who have one thing in common – they're ...
The World Can Be Saved! Hope in a Changing Climate Screening
This Friday, Greening the Beige, is holding the premiere screening of Hope in a Changing Climate. Directed by Jeremy Bristow of the BBC Natural...
Cutting Edge Nordic Docos Come to Town
Hot on the heels of the NOTCH art festival, another Nordic cultural event is rolling into town – the 2009 Nordic Documentary Film Festival...
Free EU Film Fest Hits Beijing
If you sometimes get tired all those cheap Hollywood DVDs available in Beijing, the city has been offering lots of other...
Cinematic Visions: 100 Years of Chinese Movies in Six Weeks
“I watch quite a lot of movies, but after nearly three years in China it dawned on me that I could barely name two or three ...
Arthouse Cinema Finds a Home in Beijing
The first “arthouse cinema” on the Chinese mainland, Broadway Cinematheque MOMA (BC MOMA), made its debut on the...
Michael Jackson Documentary, Upcoming Film Festivals and more
The other day, late for work, I hop into a cab, anxiously drumming my fingers across the window ledge while waiting for the light to turn green. “...
Patriot Frames: A Proper Gander at Upcoming Films
Since the founding of this great nation, the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) has presented China’s citizens with...
Extinct Dinosaurs & the Martial Arts Vacuum - Books & Film Roundup
  What a terrible shame it is that pterodactyls are extinct. Imagine if they still roamed the skies, giant predators terrorizing...
Exclusive: Zhang Ziyi and Peter Ho talk "Revenge"
Perhaps still best-known overseas as the high-kicking heroine from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Zhang Ziyi will surprise a few...