Chinese director Jia Zhangke (Jia) has created many films capturing his hometown of ­Fenyang. Yet, he never saw his "Shanxi ...

VCG. An icon of Chinese contemporary auteur cinema, director Jia Zhangke draws public attention with every appearance.

Filmmaker Jia Zhangke used the pandemic lockdown to return to his years of movies and archival outtakes, from which he has constructed an entirely new movie.

Jia Zhangke, China's quintessential indie director, says that the COVID-era lockdowns gave him a chance to rethink and review the miles of footage that he has shot over more than 20 years of ...

Game recognizes game: Martin Scorsese once called Jia Zhangke’s body of work “the finest, toughest, most vitally alive work in modern moviemaking.” It’s a high compliment, but Jia’s ...

The Chinese title of Jia Zhangke’s mesmerizing “Caught by the Tides,” a masterfully poetic and pioneering fusion of the old and the new, can be translated in several ways.Jia himself ...

Zhao Tao and Li Zhubin in Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides.” Sideshow and Janus Films It’s even more dramatic if you know that these two characters initially met in Jia’s second film ...

During the pandemic, the Chinese director Jia Zhangke, like many of us, had a lot of time on his hands. He began sifting through a personal archive consisting of footage that he had shot since 2001.

Jia Zhangke 101: New Money and New Crime. While the works from the Fifth Generation take on an air of historicity, Jia’s cinema is always focused on the present tense.

Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides” is less than two hours long and yet contains nearly a quarter-century of time’s relentless march forward. Few films course with history the way it does ...

An icon of Chinese contemporary auteur cinema, director Jia Zhangke draws public attention with every appearance. Recently in Shanghai, the director attended a centenary screening celebration of ...

Jia Zhangke, China’s quintessential indie director, says that the COVID-era lockdowns gave him a chance to rethink and review the miles of footage that he has shot over more than 20 years of ...