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filmlinc.com - 9/27/2008

The New York Film Festival - Film Society of Lincoln Center

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Scene Photo 24 City / Er shi si cheng ji Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Jia Zhangke, Country: China/Hong Kong/Japan, Release: 2008, Runtime: 112 The dean of Chinese independent cinema, Jia Zhangke is a poet of facts. Jia's latest bulletin on the state ...

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The 46th New York Film Festival Has Begun!
ComingSoon.net - 30 most recent stories — ... , about a middle-aged painter who escapes to Paris trying to set up a new life there. It premieres on October 4. Likewise, Chinese auteur Jia Zhang-ke ( Still Life ) can't stay away from the New Film Festival, returning this year with 24 City (Cinema Guild), a pseudo-documentary about the cultural revolution told through the stories of the workers at a shut-down munitions factory in the city of Chengdu, played by professional actors such as Joan Chen. It will screen once on Saturday, September 27. The Mexican film ...

NYFF. 24 City.
GreenCine Daily — ... in Reverse Shot. "His latest, 24 City, is a blend of documentary and fiction that omits some of the main tropes we associate with those genres, aspiring to neither vérité nor conventional plotting.... [W]hat begins as a straightforward oral-history project results in a rocky marriage between seemingly irreconcilable impulses, and a disorienting provocation on the sacredness of truth in the documentary form." ...