At once an intimate drama and a decadesspanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to. Frances cesar awards nominate oscar contenders mustang, son of saul and more. In its bluray incarnation the bitch looks better than it likely ever has. An interview with jia zhangke and zhao tao about mountains. The other kino lorber imprints are lorber films, alive mind, and knitting factory entertainment. If you do, you will notice that mountains may depart is a movie of threes. In 2025, 19yearold dollar no longer speaks chinese and can barely communicate. Told in three distinct parts over the course of 30 years, it begins as a simple love triangle and expands, along with its aspect ratio, into a.
Rent mountains may depart 2016 on dvd and bluray netflix. Dec 11, 2017 mountains may depart is the eighth film from the internationally acclaimed chinese filmmaker jia zhangke just about to hit uk cinemas. A blistering fictionalized tale straight out of china, a touch of sin is at once monumental and human scale. Each of zhangkes films seems to operate within the construct of a different genre. Mountains may depart details and credits metacritic.
A film by elite zexer world cinema grand jury prize, 2016 sundance international competition grand jury prize. Kino lorber presents a new line of classic studio films making their debut on bluray. April 18, 2020 the best in world cinema including european, asian, silent, documentary, and american independent titles. At once an intimate drama and a decadesspanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative nearfuture, jias new film is an intensely moving study of how chinas economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love. In mountains tao and liangzi and, to a lesser degree, jingsheng are treated like tragic figures from stem to stern. They might have had a disco club and karaoke, and that was about it. A collection of landmark american films directed by women, digitally restored from archive film elements, loaded with bonus content. The best in world cinema including european, asian, silent, documentary, and american independent titles. Kino lorber releases jia zhangkes mountains may depart on bluray and dvd new york, ny june 27, 2016 kino lorber is proud to announce the bluray and dvd release of mountains may depart, the latest film from awardwinning director jia zhangke still life, a touch of sin. Antonio margheritis cannibal apocalypse on kino bluray. Mainland master jia zhangke a touch of sin scales new heights with mountains may depart. Find similar and related movies for mountains may depart 2015 zhang ke jia on allmovie.
He has been educated at an international school in shanghai, is alienated from his father, and has forgotten about tao. Kino lorber launches new kl studio classics line of dvd and. Yet, thats exactly what leon vitali did after his acclaimed performance as lord bullingdon in stanley kubricks barry lyndon. In 2014, tao is divorced, and her son immigrates to australia with his business magnate father.
Apr 14, 2016 although the 4k restoration has yet to receive a dedicated home video release date, it seems that it might in the near future, thanks to the involvement of distributor kino lorber. Helm at home in woodstock, ny, in the midst of creating his first studio album in 25 years. Kino lorber has debuted a new official us trailer for veteran chinese filmmaker jia zhangkes latest film, titled mountains may depart. Shot during the course of twoplus years, this highly anticipated film focuses in on the fourtime grammy winner and rock and roll hall of fame member after his 2007 comeback album, dirt farmer, brought him back to the spotlight. Kino now gives you a frontrow seat for highquality classics of today and tomorrow. At once an intimate drama and a decadesspanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative nearfuture, jia zhangkes new film is an intensely moving study of how chinas economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has. Three stories trace the difficult lives of a chinese family over a quarter century. Kino lorber to offer select films on hulu and hulu plus kino lorber acquires all north american rights to the revisionaries, an expose about textbooks and the politics of us education alive mind cinema announces dvd release of foreign parts 2010, a doc by verena paravel and j. This film premiered at cannes in may and played at a. Neither does his direction look overly storyboarded, in the graphic novel sense that modern action pictures are assembled as if they were animated cartoons. Jia zhangke looks into his homelands future but loses. Mountains may depart film society of lincoln center. And back in the day, in 2001, the younger generation, they didnt have a lot of sources of entertainment. A full listing of all dvd and bluray releases of eurowesterns and spaghetti westerns by kino lorber studio classics official website the hellbenders bluray kill them all and come back alone bluray the specialists bluray cannon for cordoba bluray cannon for cordoba dvd 100 rifles bluray roy colt and winchester jack bluray.
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Like 2000s platform and 2004s the world before it, this film concerns global capitalism, specifically its effects as it moves from the west to the east. Mountains may depart may also be available with public performance rights ppr and digital site licensing dsl for colleges and universities. Kino lorber sells videos and dvds directly to customers through its online store and mail order catalog. Mountains may depart kino lorber edu kino classics. Defining hope is a documentary that weaves the stories of patients with lifethreatening illness, and the nurses who guide them as they make choices about how they want to live, how much medical technology they can accept, what they hope for and how that hope evolves. Finding fela is the new documentary feature about fela kutis life, his music, his social and political importance. Kino lorber studio classics catalog the spaghetti western. Get 60 kino lorber coupon codes and promo codes at couponbirds. At once an intimate drama and a decadesspanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative nearfuture, jia zhangkes new film is an intensely moving study of how chinas economic boom and the. This applies equally to jia zhangkes mountains may depart. It is about optimism and helps us define what quality of life really means. Mountains may depart, which gets its title from the directors view that mountains may depart, relationships may endure, follows jia zhangkes 20 work a touch of sin, in. Mountains may depart chinese writerdirector jia zhangke follows his characters from 1999 all the way forward to 2025, where a sunbleached tomorrowland threatens alienation from. Yes, its important and scholarly and worthy of praise.
Mountains may depart 2015 directed by zhang ke jia. Apr 28, 2014 kino lorber launches new kl studio classics line of dvd and blurays by noel murray a couple of months ago, we reported on kino lorbers acquisition of the u. Save up to 25% off with these current kino lorber coupon code, free promo code and other discount voucher. Discover contemporary, classic and documentary films that will entertain, inspire and amaze you, as only great cinema can. The mandarinlanguage drama, originally released in china in. Beating several distribs to the chase, kino lorber has acquired u.
Kino international remains that companys imprint for world cinema titles, as well as american independents, documentaries, international classics, and silent cinema. Like his 20 a touch of sin, mountains may depart is an epically scaled canvas. Sylvia chang this year directed murmurs of the heart, wrote and starred in office and starred in mountains may depart. Kino lorber announces its july 2018 home video releases personal problems kino classics, bluray and dvd bluray and dvd date. All from best available sources, many on dvd or bluray for the very first time. Rent mountains may depart 2016 starring tao zhao and zhang yi on dvd and bluray. Kino lorber sells videos and dvds directly to customers. Kino lorber mountains may depart, the latest film from celebrated filmmaker jia zhangke the world, still life. Mountains may depart bluray kino lorber home video. Its a rare person who would give up fame and fortune to toil in obscurity for someone elses creative vision. An epically scaled canvas of modern chinese life, jia zhangkes new film spans three decades, from the dawn of the capitalist. Sniadecki, about development of willets point neighborhood in. Jia here focuses on a family, formed in the first of the three clearly demarcated acts which takes place at the turn of the millennium.
It is, perhaps, not exactly the bright and sunny portrait of a modern cosmopolitan city that the shanghai expo hoped for, because as adam nayman points out in his essay the name of this film is talking heads. Tang wei this year gave three terrific and very different performances in blackhat, office and a tale of three cities. Mainland master jia zhangke scales new heights with mountains may depart. Pioneers of africanamerican cinema is also hugely impressive. Discussing china and filmmaking with jia zhangke, director of mountains may depart zhang yi,left, and zhao tao in mountains may depart, directed by jia zhangke.
Kino lorber the freedom of the road and the joys of wanderlust have been celebrated in american literature and music, even influencing european culture like wim wenders 70s films and kraftwerks autobahn. Feb 19, 2016 kino lorber acquires acclaimed french drama fatima read more. Extras include trailers for this movie and its predecessor, but kino lorber neednt have bothered with the gerry ohara interview or the commentary track from david del valle and nick redman, film historians with too much time on their hands. Shanghais past and present flow together in jia zhangkes a touch of sin, mountains may depart poetic and poignant i wish i knew, a portrait of this fastchanging port city. No wonder martin scorsese is proudly touting this set with a quote on the front of it.
Director jia zhangke talked about mountains may depart at a press conference before its us premiere at the 53rd new york film festival. Billy wilders witness for the prosecution starring screen legends tyrone power, marlene dietrich, and charles laughton and delbert manns oscar winning marty starring ernest borgnine are among a very large package of titles slated for release on bluray and dvd in 2014 by kino lorber studio classics. As his first melodrama, mountains may depart is the story of a family, whose changes and conflicts reflects that of the new china in which they live. In an attempt to prevent problems we have experienced in the past, we are setting forth. Kino lorber studio classics is dedicated to bringing you the best of hollywoods successes, critical and commercial. Where to stream the best movies of 2016 nyt watching. The final segment of mountains may depart takes place mostly in australia in 2025. Restoring censored images and filling in forgotten facts, jia provides an alternative version of 20thcentury chinas fraught history as reflected through life in the yangtze city. In 2009, kino international merged with lorber ht digital to form kino lorber. It starts out as a love triangle between three friends, where a woman named shen tao zhao tao, in a mesmerizing performance is forced to choose between two men.
Pioneers of africanamerican cinema kino lorber edu. Director jacob hatleys intimate documentary finds mr. Mountains may depart opens february 12 at the film. Zhang yi and zhao tao in jia zhangkes mountains may depart. Jia zhangkes i wish i knew included in the liner notes in kino lorber s new bluray release, nearly all of the stories featured in the films 18 interviews are about exodus, people. A fter the uncharacteristic fear and loathing of a touch of sin, jia zhangke returns to his melancholic, ambivalent roots with mountains may depart. In fenyang, childhood friends liangzi, a coal miner, and zhang, the owner of a gas station, are both in love with tao zhao tao. In mountains may depart, jia zhangke shows a changing.
Dec 06, 2018 kino lorber is raising funds for pioneers. Discussing china and filmmaking with jia zhangke, director. Mountains may depart is a fascinating window into a country that, even today, is still grappling with the legacy of its industrial revolutions and its role. Audela des montagnes shan he gu ren mountains may depart. Zhang yi and zhao tao in mountains may depart courtesy of kino lorber chinese writerdirector jia zhangkes films are grounded in the reality of his frigid, coaldusted hometown, fenyang. Director zhangke jia is not afraid to tackle the problems of modern china, and mountains may depart is no exception. Nov 20, 2017 kino lorber insider thread guidelines home theater forum is very excited to welcome kino lorber insider, a representative of kino distribution, who will be providing the membership with the latest bluray and dvd catalog announcements. Tao eventually marries the wealthier zhang, and they have a son named dollar. But where the former was angry and quietly terrifying, the latter is a heartbreaking prayer for the restoration of what has been lost in the name of progress.
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