Jia Zhangke is one of China’s most prominent film directors, but his latest movie has been banned inside the country itself for its treatment of sensitive subjects. “A Touch of Sin” was nominated for ...

Not exactly your grandmother’s Jia Zhangke movie, “A Touch of Sin” marks an arresting but unpersuasive change of pace for a filmmaker hitherto lauded for his placid, perceptive snapshots of ...

Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin is a difficult film to watch, but it is one that needs to be seen all the same. Brutal and beautiful in equal measure, this is one of the best films to come out of China ...

At Asia Society Jonathan Landreth explains how China prevented Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin from making it to the Oscars despite its popularity among leading film critics: A Touch of Sin has thus far ...

In two decades of moviemaking, China’s Jia Zhangke has laid bare the damage — environmental, social, personal — of his country’s explosive growth, telling stories of displacement with an obliquely ...

The release of the feature, which won best screenplay honors in Cannes, has been delayed amid censorship issues. By Clifford Coonan Chinese director Jia Zhangke says he is confident his new film, A ...

Jia Zhang-ke’s latest “A Touch of Sin” is dividing critics in Cannes, but the bigger surprise is that Chinese officials haven’t censored the film. This more mainstream depiction of Jia’s trademark ...

It is accurate to say that the four stories contained in “A Touch of Sin” are unconnected, despite a few overlapping elements. Accurate, yet not quite true. The real connecting element here is money: ...

Drama. Written and directed by Jia Zhang-ke. With Jiang Wu, Wang Baoqiang, Zhao Tao, Luo Lanshan. In Mandarin and Cantonese with English subtitles. (Not rated. 133 minutes.) Four stories are told in ...

Jia Zhang-ke’s bloody festival title has now sold in 10 territories, including France, the U.K. and Greece. By Rhonda Richford MK2 on Tuesday announced a slate of territory sales for Jia Zhang-ke’s A ...

Over the past few years, our view of modern China—at least as culled from news reports—is that of a country whose economy has grown so fast that the center cannot hold. Put another way: How can the ...