100 Films to Help You Understand China

[Luxi]

From the outstanding multi-media publication RADII    ("an independent platform of artists, writers and creators dedicated to sharing vibrant stories from the rarely explored sides of new China"):

100 films that may help to better understand China. 

 

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...This is not a ranked list of 1-100 — we’re not trying to tell you the 100 “best” or “most important” films to come out of China. Our goal is to give a round and deep profile of the country through the medium of films made here in the last 100 years or so.

 

 

The list is split into 10 categories:   

Pre-War, Mao Years, Opening Up, Indie and Arthouse, Documentaries, Wuxia, Popcorn, China Today, Bad Movies, Animation.  

Where available, there are links to the individual films. The You Tube links I tried were working but unfortunately some links are region-dependent or no longer available. Be prepared to be disappointed. Even with unavoidable disappointments, this is a valuable list, and a real treasure-trove for China's pre-War films (anyone for melodrama?)

 

 

[mungouk]

10 minutes ago, Luxi said:

the outstanding multi-media publication RADII   

 

Wow, this is quite a find. How come I never heard of this before?

 

Thanks @Luxi ?

[abcdefg]

Thank you @Luxi -- I will explore. 

[Balthazar]

Thanks indeed! Some great films there - and quite I few I haven't even heard of.

[Dawei3]

Thanks for reminding me about RADII.  They have some fun videos as well and I hadn't check their site in quite awhile.  I particularly like the ones they have about Chinese slang.  I've used what RADII taught me with Chinese friends and they were shocked in a fun way.  

 

One friend with excellent English stammered "how, how, how do you KNOW that???  Even my parents don't know that!!!  Then she broke out laughing.