Year 2017 in review
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...
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Tag: documentary
Three Sisters – Wang Bing (2012)
December 11, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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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,...
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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....
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tao films subscription pre-sale
October 7, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Welfare – Frederick Wiseman (1975)
June 29, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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