Books & Articles Films Literature Year 2017 in review December 27, 2017 by Nadin Mai 3 Comments I'm not someone who likes lists, all sorts of The best films..., The worst films... etc I never saw a point of social media getting obsessed with... Read More
Films Three Sisters – Wang Bing (2012) December 11, 2017 by Nadin Mai 10 Comments I become more and more a fan of Wang Bing. I'm making my way through his filmography in a random order, which is a shame,... Read More
Films Ex Libris – Frederick Wiseman (2017) October 31, 2017 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment When I wrote about Frederick Wiseman's Welfare not so very long ago, I did mention how difficult it was to classify Wiseman's films as slow cinema.... Read More
VoD platform tao films subscription pre-sale October 7, 2017 by Nadin Mai No Comments As part of our effort to increase tao films’ visibility, we are running a pre-sale campaign for subscriptions to our VoD platform, the only platform... Read More
VoD platform Tao Films Selection and Other News July 27, 2017 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment In the last six months, tao films has gone a long way. We started off with a mere six films in January that were replaced... Read More
Films Cochihza – Khristine Gillard (2013) July 21, 2017 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment It doesn't happen very often that I have to rewatch a film because I forgot about its contents. In fact, it never happened to the... Read More
Films Welfare – Frederick Wiseman (1975) June 29, 2017 by Nadin Mai No Comments In past years, several people have pointed out the work by Frederick Wiseman to me, in particular whenever I spoke of Lav Diaz and his... Read More
Books & Articles Wang Bing – A filmmaker in today’s China (2014) October 7, 2016 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment I quite like how much material there is in France about Chinese director Wang Bing. I had always thought that he was as invisible academically... Read More
Films Ta’ang – Wang Bing (2016) September 2, 2016 by Nadin Mai 2 Comments I'm on a Wang Bing roll at the moment. I have finally found the time to see his work, and all kinds of things run... Read More
Films Fengming, a Chinese memoir – Wang Bing (2007) August 29, 2016 by Nadin Mai 5 Comments It must have been a year or two that I watched my very first Wang Bing film. Stupidly enough, I chose The Ditch, a feature film... Read More