Archive for tag: 24 City

24 City – The Children of Mao and Microsoft

22 April, 2009 (10:20) | Essays, Film Reviews, by David Coursen | By: David Coursen

Jia Zhiang-ke’s style, temperament, and circumstances uniquely suit him to chronicle his subject: turn-of-the-century China. His early films focused on youth, dislocated between the reality of, the backwater areas where they live, and the beckoning promise of an urbanized “modernity” of their dreams. More recently, he set The World among young [...]