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Lu Chuan Enlists Hollywood FX House For New Sci-Fi Project
One of China's more interesting young directors, Lu Chuan has revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he will be collaborating with Hollywood visual effects company Prime Focus on his latest directorial venture.Prime Focus is one of the biggest VFX houses...
CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH Blu-ray Review
World history is something of a hobby of mine, and tragedy in particular. It is a morbid pastime, I recognize this, but I think that attempting to understand not only what crimes man can commit against his fellow man, but...
CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH Review
Tackling a heavy subject matter, such as the rape of Nanking on film, is not an easy task. In City of Life and Death, director Lu Chuan (Mountain Patrol: Kekexili) does a skillful balancing act in this narrative treatment of...
Kino International Lands CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH For US Distribution
Its about goddamned time! Lu Chuan's 2009 drama about the Nanking Massacre, City of Life and Death has finally found a distributor in the United States. Already released in many other countries around the world, I've been waiting for this...
IFFR 2010: CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH (and a BluRay Review, and a comparison with JOHN RABE)
Much praise has already been sung on this site about "City of Life and Death" , Chuan Lu's film about the Nanjing massacre. I'm going to add a little to that, but the biggest news I have is that the...
