Comments on: The 12th Shanghai International Film Festival Wraps Up

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:15:14 +0000

I just watched One Night In Supermarket and I died laughing. It was amazing.

By: Chinese Box Office Soars and Wang Xiaoshuai Goes Commercial « Cfensi

Chinese Box Office Soars and Wang Xiaoshuai Goes Commercial « Cfensi — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:28:13 +0000

[...] Generation Indie Director, Wang Xiaoshuai who was last heard lashing out at commercially-successful Chinese directors, has apparently decided he has had enough of sitting on the sidelines when everyone else is taking [...]

By: Kimi’s MV for One Night in Supermarket Theme Song « Cfensi

Kimi’s MV for One Night in Supermarket Theme Song « Cfensi — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:24:31 +0000

[...] movie, directed by young newbie director Yang Qing, has had good buzz, and opens July 24th hoping to attract a wide audience, and is likely to capture a young crowd at [...]

By: yelei

yelei — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:16:28 +0000

im not liking the name ..

By: idarklight

idarklight — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:12:15 +0000

@julie

mostly (but on Golden Eagle, not eeMedia’s site. eeMedia needs to get a new color scheme for its site…). Thank you for sharing, though. The Hunantv site didn’t have the part about Zhu Zixiao burning down a house. ;b

That article made me annoyed…Meteor Shower is making me annoyed…the comment about “why is everything in Meteor Shower going so wrong?” in the previous news article was from me.

on the other hand, I’ve never seen this before…Zheng Shuang looks a bit like Tao Le in these pictures:
http://www.eemedia.cn/news_view.aspx?info_id=6441

By: julie

julie — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:02:26 +0000

did you see this article about meteor shower?
http://www.eemedia.cn/news_view.aspx?info_id=6432

By: shoups

shoups — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:09:25 +0000

i thought the pic was of xiao S

By: Benji

Benji — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:59:12 +0000

I wouldn’t be the first to cry out “discrimination” regarding US attitudes to foreign films. The American film industry is much more developed than those of other countries — even advanced, English-speaking ones. It has great directors, actors, producers, technicians. It has more funding to make movies. So, typically, a movie made in the US with a $250 million budget is going to be of a higher quality than a $20 million Australian film.
That’s not to say that American audiences would necessarily understand/appreciate the themes/languages of foreign cinema despite this, but it’s something to note. It’s easier to identify with something that you’re familiar with.

But the US is a cultural exporter, and much less of an importer. Just like Japan. Japanese music is popular throughout Asia, but the reverse is not true. Even with the Korean Wave now, Korean artists going to Japan still adopt a Japanese style of music. Similarly, when British or Australian actors go to the US, they speak in American accents.

It’s always difficult to compare these cases to China, though, because the main producers of Chinese entertainment aren’t actually based in Mainland China. I guess we’ll see how things are a decade from now.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:08:11 +0000

@ Nepheliad

I agree with what your saying and I also hope one day China’s entertainment industry will be powerful enough that quotas aren’t needed.

As for the “cultural decline in interest in foreign films,” I think some of that attitude might be based on the U.S. government’s past discriminatory policies (e.g. Jim Crow laws, Chinese Exclusion Act, Japanese Internment, etc.).

These kinds of things tend to create an environment where the general public is very biased against anything foreign—even towards British or Australian films.

So America’s “natural” quota system isn’t something that’s entirely free of government intervention.

By: cfensi

cfensi — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:23:55 +0000

Well… SARFT could probably ease up on restrictions since so many of the films in China now are becoming hits, whether bad or not, which is a sign that there’s little competition.

But there’s a good reason not to ease up on import restrictions. This way, US companies have an incentive to co-produce, which so far, seems like it’s been helping China develop their movie industry at a faster rate than most countries.