US film box office revenues in China are declining and only two films from the US were among the top ten hits in China last year. The lion's share of the Chinese audiences seems to have shifted their preference to domestic films. Before the pandemic, it was expected that in any given year at least five US films would be among the top 10 movies in China. The available data from 2014-2018 confirms this. However, in 2019 only two US films achieved the same success. The same held true in 2021 ...

Held from June 22-25 at Lincoln Center and from July 6-9 at the School of Visual Arts theater the 15th edition of the New York Asian Film Festival presented 51 feature films in sold out screenings of which more than half were New York City premiers. The festival has certainly come a long way from its beginnings in a small theater in Chinatown, its passage through the Anthology Film Archives barely holding about 180 people to the much larger Walter Reade venue at Lincoln center w...

Newcastle Chinese Film Festival When: 1 Oct-3 Oct Where: Tower CInemas, 183-185 King St, Newcastle NSW 2300 Tickets: $10 Per Film The Nightingale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v-zb7VgF3vBQ An old Chinese farmer decides to journey from Beijing to his rural hometown to honour the promise he made to his late wife to bring back the bird that has been his only companion in the city. His takes along his spoilt grand-daughter Renxing, an 'olny child' brought up in the lap of lu...

Set in Inner Mongolia at the onset of the Cultural Revolution WOLF TOTEM is an extraordinary   Chinese feature film focusing on the breakdown of the natural ecological balance in a region inhabited by nomads. This breakdown is observed by the intellectuals Chen Zhen and a comrade who were sent there in1967 to live with the nomads and teach them Chinese. The film is based on the semi-biographical bestselling book by Lu Jiamin published under the pseudonym Jian Rong in 2004. Jiamin liv...

  Terracotta Festival is proud to hold the European premiere of the Chinese movie INSEPARABLE directed by Dayyan Eng, featuring Daniel Wu and Kevin Spacey. INSEPARABLE tells the story of hopeless 30 year old Li (Wu), who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a strange American ex-pat, Chuck(Kevin Spacey in excellent comic form). They fi rst meet when Chuck foils Li’s attempt at suicide, claiming to be his neighbour. He takes Li under his wing, gradually helping with ...

Running from Thursday 5th to Sunday 8th May 2011, this year’s 14 films selected to represent the best in current Asian Cinema:    Opening Film: The Lost Bladesman (UK Premiere) – dir. Alan Mak and Felix Chong (co-writers, Infernal Affairs), China. Donnie Yen (Ip Man) as the legendary historical Three Kingdoms figure, Guan Yu. Hotel Black Cat (European Premiere) – dir. Herb Hsu (debut), Taiwan. Past traumas still linger with the eclectic residents at Hotel Black Cat. Â...