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China Film Journal

China Film Journal is a new "bilingual website dedicated to Chinese-language cinema from around the world ... The Founding Editors of China Film Journal are Peijin Chen [of Shanghaiist] and Erick Peterson."

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hi, thanks for the mention. pretentious about page blurbs aside, this website is, at its core, a place for people who are interested in chinese film to talk about it, whether it be in reviews or interviews, comments, or podcasts. Although it's more or less a labor of love (ie not much revenue generating), we still hope, in the spirit of amateurism, to make it as good a site as possible.
so consider this an open invitation for people who like to gab about Chinese film—if you'd like to contribute somehow, please let us know!

I've tried to leave a comment at CFJ, but it's rejecting my suggested usernames without explanations. I was going to point out:

Sculpting in Time publicity in Weigongcun already refers to a Xi'an branch. Perhaps they have decided their arty approach sits better in ancient, culturally sensitive northern cities rather than money-grabbing southern treaty ports? :-)

China and the Fictional World of Total Recall

In wake of the 20-year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square catastrophe of 1989, The Film Crusade brings to light a film produced just one year after which shares a horrifying vision with the Chinese government in its treatment of dissent (or “terrorism”). Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall depicts a futuristic world on Mars run by a pseudo-military-oligarchy which can control the minds and identities of its people. For the government, it is the memory and minds of its people which pose the greatest threat to the status quo since radical ideas can breed vigilantism.

[Snipped. Essay is here. --JM]

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