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Caught By The Tides
''Caught by the Tides'' () is a 2024 Chinese drama film directed by Jia Zhangke, and written by Wan Jianhuan and Zhangke, based on footage across 22 years, some from Jia's previous films, in an impressionistic non-linear blend of fiction and non-fiction. The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, where had its world premiere on 18 May 2024. Plot In 2001, in the northern Chinese city of Datong, a working-class woman named Qiao Qiao has a romantic relationship with her manager Guao Bin as she hustles to make a living as a singer, model, and club girl. Bin leaves Datong to try to earn a living in another province, sending Qiao Qiao a text message that says he will bring her when he has money. After a stretch, Qiao Qiao decides to go looking for him, passing though communities that are being displaced by the Three Gorges Dam, as well as through Guangdong Province. Meanwhile, Bin tries his hand at a number of businesses, including entering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jia Zhangke
Jia Zhangke ( zh, s=贾樟柯, born 24 May 1970) is a Chinese film and television director, screenwriter, producer, actor and writer. He is the founder of Pingyao International Film Festival, dean of the Shanxi Film Academy of Shanxi Media College and the dean of the Shanghai Vancouver Film School at Shanghai University. He graduated from the Literature Department of Beijing Film Academy. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the "Cinema of China#The sixth generation, Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai, Lou Ye, Wang Quan'an and Zhang Yuan (director), Zhang Yuan. Jia's early films, a loose trilogy based in his home province of Shanxi, were made outside of China's state-run State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television, film bureaucracy, and therefore are considered "underground" films. Beginning in 2004, Jia's status in his own country rose when he was allowed to direct his fourth feature film, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ash Is Purest White
''Ash Is Purest White'' ( zh, 江湖儿女; 'Sons and Daughters of Jianghu') is a 2018 Chinese drama written and directed by Jia Zhangke. The story is loosely based on the leader of a gang from Jia Zhangke's childhood, whom he had admired as a role model. The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival on 11 May 2018, where it was nominated for the ''Palme d'Or''. It was theatrically released in China on 21 September 2018. Like the rest of Jia's films, it opened to widespread acclaim. Plot In 2001, Qiao and her boyfriend Bin, a mob boss, have a lot of power in Datong, an old mining city that has become poor since the coal prices dropped. After Bin's boss is murdered, Qiao suggests they run away from everything and get married, but Bin is not interested. One night a group of motorcyclists attack Bin and his driver, claiming to dethrone him. Qiao grabs Bin's handgun and fires two warning shots into the air, scaring off the attackers. The p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Eye Honors
The Cinema Eye Honors are awards recognizing excellence in nonfiction or documentary filmmaking and include awards for the disciplines of directing, producing, cinematography and editing. The awards are presented each January in New York and have been held since 2011 at the Museum of the Moving Image (New York City), Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. Cinema Eye was created to celebrate artistic craft in nonfiction filmmaking, addressing a perceived imbalance in the field where awards were given for social impact or importance of topic rather than artistic excellence. History Nominations for the awards are determined by voting of top film festival documentary programmers and winners are voted on by an invited membership of more than 800 documentary film experts. Cinema Eye also presents an Audience Choice Prize where voting is open to the public and the Heterodox Award. The first Cinema Eye Honors were presented at the IFC Center in New York City on March 18, 2008. Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. It is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. She was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper# ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival (; ), until 2003 called the International Film Festival ('), is the most prestigious film festival in the world. Held in Cannes, France, it previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world. Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. The festival was formally accredited by the FIAPF in 1951. Cannes is one of the "Big Three" major European film festivals, alongside Venice and Berlin, as well as one of the "Big Five" major international film festivals, alongside Venice, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance. History The early years The Cannes Film Festival has its origins in 1938 when Jean Zay, the French Minister of National Education, on the proposal of high-ranking official and historian Philippe Erlanger and film journalist Robert Favre Le Bret decided to set up an international cinematographic festival. They found the support of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RogerEbert
''RogerEbert.com'' is an American film review website that archives reviews written by film critic Roger Ebert for the '' Chicago Sun-Times'' and also shares other critics' reviews and essays. The website, underwritten by the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', was launched in 2002. Ebert handpicked writers from around the world to contribute to the website. After Ebert died in 2013, the website was relaunched under Ebert Digital, a partnership founded between Ebert, his wife Chaz, and friend Josh Golden. Background Two months after Ebert's death, Chaz Ebert hired film and television critic Matt Zoller Seitz as editor-in-chief for the website because his IndieWire blog ''PressPlay'' shared multiple contributors with RogerEbert.com, and because both websites promoted each other's content. '' The Dissolve''s Noel Murray described the website's collection of Ebert reviews as "an invaluable resource, both for getting some front-line perspective on older movies, and for getting a better sens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Paper (newspaper)
''The Paper'' ( zh, first=s, s=澎湃新闻, l=Surging News) is a Chinese digital newspaper owned and run by the state-owned Shanghai United Media Group. History ''The Paper'' was launched in July 2014 as an offshoot of the Shanghai United Media Group publication '' Oriental Morning Post''. It received a large amount of initial funding, speculated to be anywhere from US$16 million to 64 million. Of this, RMB 100 million (approximately $) was provided by the government through the Cyberspace Administration of China. ''The Paper'' was founded as an attempt to capture the readership of mobile internet users as revenue from mainstream physical papers across China saw major declines in the early 2010s. In May 2016, ''The Paper'' launched '' Sixth Tone'', an English-language sister publication. On December 28, 2016, six completely state-owned or invested firms in Shanghai executed a strategic equity investment in Shanghai Oriental Newspaper Industry Company Limited, the operator o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
29th Busan International Film Festival
The 29th Busan International Film Festival () opened on October 2 at the Busan Cinema Center in Busan, with South Korean film ''Uprising (2024 film), Uprising'' by Kim Sang-man, and screened 278 films from 63 countries, including 224 officially invited films and 54 community beef screenings. Park Bo-young and Ahn Jae-hong (actor), Ahn Jae-hong hosted the opening ceremony. Mohammad Rasoulof, an Iranian film director was chosen as president of the competitive section 'New Currents' jury. The festival this year announced a Special Program in Focus, 'In Memory of Lee Sun-kyun' who died on December 27, 2023, and was known for his role in the Oscar winning film ''Parasite (2019 film), Parasite''. He will also posthumously receive the Korean Film Achievement Award. The festival closed with the ceremony hosted by Gong Myung and Choi Soo-young. ''Spirit World (film), Spirit World'', a fantasy-drama film directed by Singapore's Eric Khoo and starring French actress Catherine Deneuve was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world. Founded in 1976, the festival takes place every year in early September. The organization behind the film festival is also a permanent destination for film culture operating out of the TIFF Lightbox cultural centre, located in downtown Toronto. The Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award, TIFF People's Choice Award – which is based on audience balloting – has emerged as an indicator of success during Film awards seasons, awards season, especially at the Academy Awards. Past recipients of this award include Oscar-winning films, such as ''Chariots of Fire'' (1981), ''Life Is Beautiful'' (1998), ''American Beauty (1999 film), American Beauty'' (1999), ''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' (2000), ''Slumdog Millionaire'' (2008), ''The King's Speech'' (2010), ''Silver Linings Playbook'' (2012), ''12 Years a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Toronto International Film Festival
The 49th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 5–15, 2024. The festival opened with David Gordon Green's film ''Nutcrackers (film), Nutcrackers'', and closed with Rebel Wilson's directorial debut film ''The Deb (film), The Deb''. Key programming announcements The first programming announcements were released on June 18, 2024. A second batch of films was announced on July 9, and the opening and closing galas were announced on July 16. Full program announcements began on July 22, with the gala and special presentations lineups announced that day and several other programs announced over the course of that week.Jeremy Kay"Toronto film festival adds Angelina Jolie, Mike Leigh, Edward Burns, David Mackenzie titles" ''Screen Daily'', July 22, 2024. The full festival schedule, including numerous late additions, was announced on August 13. In addition to new and current films, the schedule included anniversary special event screenings of Damien Chazelle's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DaVinci Resolve
DaVinci Resolve is a proprietary color grading, color correction, visual effects, and audio post-production video editing application for macOS, Windows, and Linux, developed by Australian company Blackmagic Design. It was originally developed by American company Da Vinci Systems under the name da Vinci Resolve until 2009, when Blackmagic Design acquired the company. In addition to the commercial version of the software (known as DaVinci Resolve Studio), Blackmagic Design also distributes a free edition with reduced functionality, simply named DaVinci Resolve (formerly DaVinci Resolve Lite). Development Original da Vinci Systems development (2003–2009) The initial versions of DaVinci Resolve (known then as da Vinci Resolve) were resolution-independent software tools developed by da Vinci Systems (based in Coral Springs, Florida), who had previously produced other color correction systems such as da Vinci Classic (1985), da Vinci Renaissance (1990), and da Vinci 2K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro (often abbreviated FCP or FCPX) is a professional non-linear video-editing application initially developed by Macromedia, and, since 1998, by Apple as part of its pro apps collection. Final Cut Pro allows users to import, edit, and process video footage, and output it to a wide variety of formats. In the 2000s, Final Cut Pro developed a large and expanding user base, mainly video hobbyists and independent filmmakers. It also made inroads with film and television editors who have traditionally used Avid Media Composer. According to a 2007 SCRI study, Final Cut Pro made up 49% of the United States professional editing market, with Avid at 22%. A published survey in 2008 by the American Cinema Editors Guild placed their users at 21% Final Cut Pro (and growing from previous surveys of this group), while all others were on an Avid system of some kind. In 2011, Final Cut Pro 7 was replaced with the fully rewritten Final Cut Pro X, which initially lacked many features ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
