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 is pleased to announce the New York premiere of Zhao Dayong’s award-winning film THE HIGH LIFE, which will be running for a full week this month at the Museum of Modern Art. THE HIGH LIFE is showing as part of MOMA’s ContemporAsian series (See details here). Days and times are as follows: Monday, … Continue reading
Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei.com, a Beijing-based website on media and culture in China, interviews director Zhao Dayong about The High Life, Ghost Town, My Father’s House and other Lantern Films productions. Interview with Chinese film director Zhao Dayong from Danwei on Vimeo.
Slant magazine has listed Lantern Films production Ghost Town as No. 21 on its list of the top 100 films released to the screen in 2010.
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