24 City (Ershisi Cheng Ji)

                   
variety.com     May 17, 2008            

An Xstream Pictures, Shanghai Film Group, China Resources (Holdings) Co. presentation, in association with Office Kitano, Bandai Visual, Bitters End, of an Xstream Pictures production. Produced by Jia Zhangke, Shozo Ichiyama, Wang Hong. (Mandarin, Shanghainese dialogue) Following "Still Life" and... [read full story]                    

Full Coverage
                   

Jia Zhangke's 24 City charts China's dash into the future - Feature

earthtimes.org     May 17, 2008          

Cannes, France - Chinese director Jia Zhangke's haunting and unsettling portrayals of life in modern China have never won him too friends among the authorities in Beijing. But growing international acclaim and a more lenient attitude on the part of t...                    

comments

"24 City" a moving elegy to modern-day China (Reuters)

yahoo.com     May 19, 2008          

Reuters - Documentary and fiction are sometimes uneasy bedfellows, but having made both back-to-back in many of his film projects (most recently, "Still Life" and "Dong"), Venice frequenter Jia Zhangke finally marries the two media in his Cannes competition debut, "24 City."                    

comments