Still Life
Still Life (2006 film)
...a small town on the Yangtze River which is slowly being destroyed by the building of the Three Gorges Dam, Still Life tells the story of two people in search of their spouses. Still...
Xiao Shan Going Home
...men then began work on Jia's feature film debut, Xiao Wu, which was completed in 1997. Like his later film Still Life '', ''Xiao Shan Going Home uses intertitles seemingly divorced...
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The World (film)
...top award which went to Mike Leigh's drama Vera Drake, and which Jia would win two years later with Still Life ''. ''The World also premiered in 2004 at the New York Film Festival...
Dong (film)
...a group of laborers near the Three Gorges Dam (also the subject of Still Life) and later a group of women in Bangkok. The film was produced and distributed by Jia's own production...
Blowback: Change in China must come from within
...step toward a healthy antagonism between the state and its people. I was even given a copy of the film "Still Life," by Chinese director Jia Zhangke, which dramatizes the plight of...
Wong Kar-wai - Thai Film Voted Best Of Decade
...Platform , which received 49 votes by the panel. Jia also nabbed third place, with 48 votes going to his Still Life , which won the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice Film Festival in...
Asian films lead Toronto fest's best-of-decade poll
...Jia Zhangke's "Platform." The Chinese filmmaker also grabbed third place for his Venice award winner "Still Life" and its 48 votes. French filmmaker Claire Denis earned fourth place for...
Our picks for the best of the St. Louis International Film Festival
...schools in the country. Screens at 5 p.m. Sunday at the Tivoli ESB "24 City" (China; 1:52) Jia Zhangke ("Still Life") directed this pseudo-documentary about a Chinese aircraft plant...
24 City
But the films he's made in this decade - among them, "Unknown Pleasures,'' "Platform,'' "The World,'' "Still Life,'' and the ultimately moving "24 City,'' which opens today at the...
Chinese director Jia to make 1st big budget film (AP)
...miniatures of the world's major tourist attractions as a metaphor for the illusion of prosperity, and "Still Life" is about demolition workers dismantling a Chinese village to make way...
'24 City': China's Tidal Changes, In Microcosm
...is destined to become 24 City, an upscale high-rise office, residential and entertainment complex. Jia's Still Life, released in the U.S. in 2008, combined a fictional story with vivid...
Film: Review: 24 City
...the late '70s and '80s caught up in the swells of Westernization, and his duo from 2006, the fiction film Still Life and the documentary Dong, dealt with the mass exodus necessitated by...
