At the Village Voice, Nick Pinkerton writes about the Lantern Films production Ghost Town ahead of its one-week run at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Rightly singled out during its NYFF run, Zhao Dayong’s loose, baggy monster of a documentary distills six years of footage from Zhiziluo, Yunnan Province—a Mao-era regional seat since abandoned to the elements and native Lisu and Nu minorities—into an three-hour triptych portrait-of-place.
Lantern Films China is a Hong Kong-based film company dedicated to the production and support of independent documentary and art films in China. The company was founded in 2008 by Guangzhou filmmaker Zhao Dayong and award-winning American journalist David Bandurski.... Read More