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This list of the 100 Best Chinese Films was created by the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2005 to celebrate 100 years of Chinese film, and features films from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Even though the list presents a decent mix of 'essential directors' spanning most decades, the lack of English-friendly releases of many of these films makes the list somewhat moot to Western fans of Chinese cinema.
That said, this is undoubtedly a strong introduction for those wanting to get into Chinese cinema beyond Martial Arts and Heroic Bloodshed action films. Also, the list ended up being 103 films long for some reason.
I feel there are some major absences in the list - Peking Opera Blues and Hero are the obvious ones - but the sixth generation of Mainland Chinese film makers in general have been looked over. Even though one of Jia Zhangke's best works, Still Life, wouldn't come out until a year later - the lack of any films by Lou Ye, Wang Xiaoshuai, Zhang Yuan et al. comes across as something of a missed opportunity. Also, I would've liked to have seen a few more 'scar dramas' (films created in reaction to the Cultural Revolution) on the list - Evening Rain or Legend of Tianyun Mountain for example.
Also, no Woman Basketball Player No. 5! What a travesty.
Even though the list presents a decent mix of 'essential directors' spanning most decades, the lack of English-friendly releases of many of these films makes the list somewhat moot to Western fans of Chinese cinema.
That said, this is undoubtedly a strong introduction for those wanting to get into Chinese cinema beyond Martial Arts and Heroic Bloodshed action films. Also, the list ended up being 103 films long for some reason.
I feel there are some major absences in the list - Peking Opera Blues and Hero are the obvious ones - but the sixth generation of Mainland Chinese film makers in general have been looked over. Even though one of Jia Zhangke's best works, Still Life, wouldn't come out until a year later - the lack of any films by Lou Ye, Wang Xiaoshuai, Zhang Yuan et al. comes across as something of a missed opportunity. Also, I would've liked to have seen a few more 'scar dramas' (films created in reaction to the Cultural Revolution) on the list - Evening Rain or Legend of Tianyun Mountain for example.
Also, no Woman Basketball Player No. 5! What a travesty.
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