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"I swore to never fight again. But now, I will fight for your legacy." Well Go USA has released an official US trailer for Chinese action film tiled Crazy Fist, marking the feature directorial debut of actor Guo Qing. A mixed martial arts (Mma) champion is forced out of retirement for one last fight in order to unravel a major conspiracy. When his best friend dies under suspicious circumstances during a tournament, he has no choice but to step back in the ring to help uncover the truth. First-time feature film director Guo Qing stars with Steve Yoo and Wang Wei, plus Collin Chou, Xiaoming Huang, Wei Zhao, Liu Mengke, with retired professional bodybuilder Kai Greene as one of the fighters in the final showdown. This looks like it borrows a lot from Mortal Kombat and other fight tournament movies / games. The coolest part about this trailer is the big...

Friend, I have watched you down the mountain/ Till now in the dark I close my thatch-door…/ Grasses return again green in the spring,/ But, O Wang Sun, will you return? The seasonality of a life far removed from the mechanization of “elevated highways and buildings even made from glass” adheres to a sense of cyclical permanence governed by a higher, earthly power. Though written over a millennium ago, Wang Wei’s poignant question finds a home even today: a contemplation of human impermanence to which there is no immediate answer – a parting, a farewell. It is an unwelcome contemplation with life-changing implications in Lina Wang’s debut feature ‘A First Farewell’ and though the poet himself plays a less wholesome role, his likening as a painter-poet manifests superbly in this visual love-letter to Xinjiang.

“A First Farewell” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival

A lifetime away from...

Friend, I have watched you down the mountain/ Till now in the dark I close my thatch-door…/ Grasses return again green in the spring,/ But, O Wang Sun, will you return? The seasonality of a life far removed from the mechanization of “elevated highways and buildings even made from glass” adheres to a sense of cyclical permanence governed by a higher, earthly power. Though written over a millennium ago, Wang Wei’s poignant question finds a home even today: a contemplation of human impermanence to which there is no immediate answer – a parting, a farewell. It is an unwelcome contemplation with life-changing implications in Lina Wang’s debut feature ‘A First Farewell’ and though the poet himself plays a less wholesome role his likening as a painter-poet manifests superbly in this visual love-letter to Xinjiang.

A First Farewell is screening at Berlin Film Festival

A lifetime away from the frantic buzz of the Han-centric East,...

French producer worked with Wong Kar Wai, Wayne Wang, Nikita Mikhalkov, Zhang Yimou, Peter Greenaway and Jonathan Glazer.

France-born, Hong Kong based producer Jean Louis Piel, who worked with international filmmakers including Wong Kar Wai, Wayne Wang, Nikita Mikhalkov, Zhang Yimou, Peter Greenaway and Jonathan Glazer, has died of cancer at the age of 69.

Piel’s credits included Mikhalkov’s Close To Eden, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival in 1991 and was nominated for the best foreign-language Oscar, and the Russian director’s Burnt By The Sun which won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1994 and...