I kick off my next retrospective with a review of Red Sorghum. As promised, I am starting a new movie retrospective series. This series looks at the films of Zhang Yimou. Zhang is one of China’s most distinguished filmmakers. He is perhaps the most famous member of the first filmmaking cohort to attend the Beijing …
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Various Guises: The King of Masks Review
Having been recommended the movie by a friend, I recently watched The King of Masks. Here’s the review! The King of Masks (1996), directed by Wu Tianming from a screenplay by Chen Wengui, introduces us to Wang, an older man who makes a living as a wandering street performer in China’s Sichuan province in the …
The Cameraman 