LINKS :: JIA Zhang-ke

JIA Zhang-ke 賈樟柯 (born 1970, China) = 37 yold in 2008

10 films / 9 screenplays (1st film: 1995/latest film: 2008)
INSPIRED BY : Chen Kaige (Yellow Earth), Hou Hsiao-Hsien (The Boys of Fengkuei), Robert Bresson (Un condamné à mort s'est échappé), Vittorio De Sica (Ladri di biciclette), Ozu Yasujiro (Tokyo Monogatari), François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Johnny To (Election 1 & 2)
C.C.C. films (strict model in red) : I Wish I Knew; 24 City v; Sanxia haoren / Still Life v; Shijie / The World v; Ren xiao yao / Unknown Pleasures v; Gong gong chang suo / In Public DOCv; Zhantai / Platform v; Xiao Wu v
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Quick scroll : BIBLIOGRAPHY | BOOK | ONLINE ARTICLES | INTERVIEW | TEXTS | WEBSITES | DOCUMENTARY

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24 City 二十四城 Ershisi Cheng Ji (2008)

• 24 City By: Dan Fainaru (Screen Daily, May 17, 2008)
  
• 24 City By: Derek Elley (Variety, May 17, 2008)
  
• Links round up By: David Hudson (GreenCine, May 17, 2008)
  
• A modest but moving elegy on industrial metamorphosis in China By: Maggie Lee (The Hollywood Reporter, May 17, 2008)
  
• Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke takes new approach with '24 City.' By: Dennis Lim (The LA Times, May 19, 2008)
  
• MP3 Audio podcast By: AO Scott & Manohla Dargis (New York Times, May 19, 2008)
  
• Cannes Film Festival, 2008: “24 City” (Jia, China) By: Daniel Kasman (The Auteur's Notebook, May 21, 2008)
  
• One Collective Epic: Jia Zhangke's 24 City, Zhai Yongming and the three Factory Beauties By: Edwin Mak (Faster Than Instant Noodles, May 26, 2008) DELETED
  
• "Imitation of life" By: James Quandt (Artforum, 3 June 2009)
  
• Links By: David Hudson (The IFC Daily, 4 June 2009)
  
• "An Upscale Leap Forward That Leaves Many Behind" By: Manohla Dargis (NYT, 4 June 2009)
  
• "Ruinas" By: Miguel Blanco Hortas (Lumière, #2, Nov 2009) [SPANISH]
  
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Still Life 三峡好人 Sanxia Haoren (2006)

• Still Life review By: Leo Goldsmith (not coming to a theatre near you)
• Still Life review By: Zach Campbell (Elusive Lucidity)
• Still Life review By: acquarello (Strictly Film School)
• Still Life review By: Dave Kehr (davekehr.com)
  
• Still Life review By: Chris Bourne (The Bourne Cinema Conspiracy)
• Still Life review By: Dan Sallitt (Thanks for the Use of the Hall)
  
• Still Life review By: Daniel Kaz (d+kaz)
• "Still, Life, Looking at Jia Zhang-ke's Recent Masterpiece" By: Ian Johnston (Bright Lights Film Journal)
  
• "Chinese Wasteland: Jia Zhangke’s Still Life" By: Shelly Kraicer (Cinemascope)
• "Toronto: Jia Zhang-ke, etc." (Girish)
• "Histories, Official & Personal: Jia Zhangke's Still Life" By: Andrew Schenker (The House Next Door, Wednesday, January 30, 2008)
• Still Life review By: Tony Rayns (Sight & Sound, Sept 5, 2006)
• Still Life Venice review By: Derek Elley (Variety, Sept 8, 2006)
  
• Still Life TIFF review By: J. Robert Parks (framing device, Sept 14, 2006)
• "Jia Zhangke - Still Life" (Positif #555, May 2007) [FRENCH]
  
• "Drowning in Progress. Contemporary China, fluid yet unstable, in Still Life" By J. Hoberman (The Village Voice, January 8th, 2008)
• Still Life review By: Fernando F. Croce (Slant, Jan 11, 2008)
• "Digging for China" By: Martin Tsai (The New York Sun, Jan 11, 2008)
  
• "Missing Persons: Jia Zhangke's Still Life" By: Michael Koresky (indieWIRE, Jan 14, 2008)
• "A Still Life Less Ordinary. Chinese director Jia Zhangke on hovering between the state and subversion" By: Vadim Rizov (The Reeler, Jan 14, 2008)
  
• "Generation China, Jia Zhangke continues to document his rapidly evolving (self-destructing?) homeland" By: Anthony Kaufman (Village Voice, January 15th, 2008)
• "Those Days of Doom on the Yangtze" By: Manohla Dargis (NYT, Jan 18, 2008)
  
• "Humans recede as China expands" By: Nicolas Rapoldombles (The New York Sun, Jan 18, 2008)
• "Blurring Reality’s Edge in Fluid China" By: Dennis Lim (NYT, Jan 20, 2008)
• "Moral Landscapes" By: David Denby (The New Yorker, Jan 21, 2008)
• "Jia Zhang-ke's latest film digs up China's emotional wreckage" By: Jason Anderson (Eye Weekly, January 23, 2008)
• "Faire violence of shanshui" By: Fabienne Costa (Vertigo, #31, 2008) [FRENCH]
• Still Life review By: Peter Bradshaw (The Guardian, February 1, 2008)
• "No Place of Grace" By: Pat Graham (Chicago Reader, March 5th, 2008)
• Images By: Max Goldb (Text of Light, May 2008)
  
• "Tender Is the Regard: I Don't Want to Sleep Alone and Still Life" By: Yvette Bíró (Film Quarterly, Summer 2008, Vol. 61, N°4) p. 34-40
  
• "En Avant Jeunesse / Still Life, à l'épreuve du temps" By: Raphaël
  Clairefond (Sept 2008, Spectres du cinéma, #1) [FRENCH]
  
• "Travail de forces (sur Still Life)" By: Sébastien Raulin (Sept 2008, Spectres du cinéma, #1) [FRENCH]
  
• "Narrating changes in topography: Still Life and the cinema of Jia Zhangke" By: Eric Dalle (Summer 2011, Jump Cut, #53)
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The World 世界 Shijie (2004)

• "News Of The World" By: Emmanuel Burdeau (Cahiers du Cinéma, #602, Juin 2005) [FRENCH] [ENGLISH]
• "The World in a Beijing Theme Park" By: Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader, July 29, 2005)
  
• Jonathan Rosenbaum's video trailer (FilmsWeLike)
  
• The World By: acquarello (Strictly Film School)
  
• World apart By: J. Hoberman (Artforum, 2005)
  
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Unknown Pleasures 任逍遙 Ren xiao yao (2002)

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• acquarello (Strictly Film School)
  
• Elephant By: Elbert Ventura (Autumn 2004, Reverse Shot)
  
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In Public 公共场所 Gong gong chang suo (2001) DOC

• Cutting Edge And Missed Encounters - Digital Short Films By Three Filmmakers
• "Passerelles" By: Bernard Eisenschitz (in Cinéma03, printemps 2002) [FRENCH]
  
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Platform 站台 Zhantai (2000)

• acquarello (Strictly Film School) 2004
  
• Darren Hughes (Long Pauses) March 24, 2008
  
• Chet Mellema (Not coming) April 4, 2008
  
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Xiao Wu 小武 (1997)

• The absence of a moral compass in contemporary China - Xiao Wu, a film by Jia Zhang Ke at the London Film Festival
• Beijing Scene
• "Le temps d'aimer, le temps de sourire" By: Charles Tesson (in Cahiers du Cinéma, #531, janvier 1999) [FRENCH]
  
• "Jia Zhangke, au bar des poètes-récitants" By: Charles Tesson (Cahiers du cinéma, Hors série, avril 1999) [FRENCH]
  
• At the cinematheque: “Xiao Wu” (Jia Zhangke, China, 1997) By: Ryland Walker Knight (The Auteur's Notebook, Sept. 26, 2008)
  
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GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

• "Out Of Time: 'Unknown Pleasures' a Haunting Study of Dead-End Youth In a Rapidly Changing World, Confirms China's Jia Zhangke as a Master of Modern Alienation" By: Kent Jones (in Film Comment - September 2002, Vol. 38, #5, pp. 43-47)
  
• "Artificial Eye press release for Xiao Wu/Unknown Pleasures" By: KENT, J. A. R., JONATHAN (Artificial Eye, London, 2002)
• "La Chine en caméra cachées" By: Laurent Rigoulet (Télérama, 15 Janvier 2003) [FRENCH]
• “China Down” By: Didier Peron (in Liberation, January 22, 2003)
• “Independent Films Made by the Gang” By: Pierre Haski (in Liberation, January 22, 2003) [FRENCH]
• "Cultural Fallout" By: Michael Berry (in Film Comment, March/April 2003, pp. 61-64)
• "No future (made) in China, A propos de la trilogie nihiliste de Jia Zhang-ke" By: Antony Fiant (Trafic #46, été 2003, pp 94-105) [FRENCH]
• "Jia Zhangke's Cinematic Trilogy: A Journey across the Ruins of Post-Mao China" By: LIN, X. (Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, 2005)
• "The Independent cinema of Jia Zhangke: From Postsocialist Realism to a Transnational Aesthetic" By: MCGRATH, J. (Durham, Duke University Press, 2007)
• "Jia Zhang Ke, cinéaste obsessionnel des réalités sociales chinoises" By: Bruno Philip (in Le Monde, France, 30 December 2007) [FRENCH]
• Yvette Biro, "Tender is the regard" Film Quarterly, Vol.61, n°4 (Summer 2008), P. 34-40 on Tsai's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone & JZK's Still Life
  
• "The Long Shot" By: Evan Osnos (The New Yorker, 11 May 2009)
  
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BOOK on Jia Zhang-Ke

• Antony Fiant, "Le cinéma de Jia Zhang-Ke. No future (made) in China", Ed. Presse Universitaire de Rennes, Octobre 2009
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GENERAL ONLINE ARTICLES

• Jia Zhangke By: Kevin Lee (Senses of Cinema)
• "The Grit of Postsocialist Discourse: Aesthetic Realism in Jia ZhangKe's Platform and Unknown Pleasures" By: Edwin Mak (Offscreen)
  
• "Bringing the World to the Nation: Jia Zhangke and the Legitimation of the Chinese Underground Film" By: Valerie Jaffee (Senses of Cinema)
• Zhang Ke Jia, Poetic Prophet By: Jonathan Rosenbaum (JonathanRosenbaum.com, January 2008)
  
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INTERVIEW

• "A l'école de la rue" By: Charles Tesson (Cahiers du cinéma, #531, janvier 1999) on Xiao Wu [FRENCH]
  
• "Cinema with An Accent - Interview with Jia Zhangke, director of Platform" By: Stephen Teo (Senses of Cinema, 2001)
• Interview By: Antoine de Baecque (Libération, 29 août 2001) [FRENCH]
• An Interview with Jia Zhangke By: Valerie Jaffee (Senses of Cinema)
• "Un sentiment d'amertume et d'abandon" By: Jerôme Larcher ; Olivier Joyard ; Jean-Sébastien Chauvin (Cahiers du cinéma, #575, janvier 2003) on Xiao Wu, Unknown Pleasures, Platform [FRENCH]
  
• "Interview with Jia Zhang-ke, director of The World" By: David Walsh (WSWS, 29 September 2004)
  
• "Ce temps-là a disparu, entretien avec Jia Zhang-ke" By: Jean-Philippe Tessé & Emmanuel Burdeau & Pascale Wei-Guinot (Cahiers du cinéma, #602, juin 2005) on The World [FRENCH]
  
• "Jia Zhang Ke - Interview, Peintre pour caméra politique" (peau neuve.net) [FRENCH]
  
• "Life and times beyond the world" (CineAction, #68, 2006)
  
• "Life in Film" By: Bert Rebhandl (Frieze Magazine, #106, April 2007)
  
• “On n’a pas fini de digérer l’histoire récente” interview (Courrier International, #862, 10 May 2007) [FRENCH]
  
• Interview By: Michel Ciment, Lorenzo Codelli (Positif, May 2007, pp. 9-12) [FRENCH]
• "La Montagne Intouchable, entretien avec Jia Zhang ke" March 17, 2007 (Vertigo, #31, 2008) on Still Life [FRENCH]
  
• "The World is not enough: Has Jia Zhang-ke permanently left the arthouse?" (The China Film journal, March 26, 2008)
  
• Q&A NYFF with Kent Jones on Sept. 26, 2008 (FilmLinc.com) 7'
  
• "Réinventer le cinéma chinois" interview by Xu Baike in Chinese newspaper Bingdian (translated in French in Courrier International, #952, January 2009) [FRENCH]
• "Moving With The Times" interview with Andrew Chan (Film Comment, March-Avril 2009)
  
• interview By: Evan Osnos (The New Yorker, 11 May 2009) video
  
• Interview By: Dudley Andrews (Film Quarterly, Summer 2009)
  
• Hors champ By: Laure Adler (France Culture, 21 Jul 2010) [FRENCH] MP3
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TEXT BY JIA ZHANGKE

• "Jia Zhangke raconte les trois révolutions du numérique. Le paysage du cinéma chinois contemporain décrypté par l’un de ses chefs de file" By: Jia Zhang-ke (Jan 2004, Cahiers du cinéma #586, p. 20) [FRENCH]
  
• "Moving Pictures" By: Jia Zhang-ke (April 2008, GOOD magazine)
  
• Jia Zhang-Ke, "Jia Xiang 1996-2008: Jia Zhangke's directing handbook" By: Jia Zhang-ke, 2009, Ed. Peking University Press
  
• "Images that Cannot be Banned - New Cinema in China from 1995" By: Jia Zhang-ke, in BFI DVD of Still Life/Dong (at Unspoken Cinema)
  
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WEBSITES

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DOCUMENTARY ON JIA ZHANG-KE

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