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Jan 24, 2020 · Made between his sublime “24 City” (2008) and his angry, violent 2013 “A Touch of Sin,’ “I Wish I Knew” takes its title from the American songbook standard, here heard as sung by U.S. crooner Dick Haymes, while a group of contemporary Shanghai senior citizens are seen dancing to it.
Jan 23, 2020 · ‘I Wish I Knew’ Review: A Melancholy Master’s Portrait of a City In this elegiac documentary, the director Jia Zhangke explores Shanghai through its people, stories and soaring cranes. Share ...
- Zhangke Jia
Feb 13, 2020 Full Review Jonathan Romney Film Comment Magazine Ending a minor but fascinating film in Jia's provocative oeuvre, the images of these sleepers are a prelude to the other troubled...
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- Rebecca Pan, Tao Zhao, Dan-Qing Chen, Han Han
- Zhang-Ke Jia
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Jan 16, 2020 · Now on Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD: bit.ly/3dnjb0NShanghai's past and present flow together in Jia Zhangke's poetic and poignant portrait of this fast-changing...
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Oct 14, 2010 · I Wish I Knew — Film Review. Dipping into the historical, human and scenic through interviews and nomadic location shooting, it reveals what most films touching on modern Chinese history...
Jan 24, 2020 · What ensues amidst Jia’s indelible, gliding visuals of modern Shanghai are ruminative testimonials from the breadth of an older citizenry — former soldiers, descendants of gangsters and politicians, and (lots of) artists who endured the city’s turbulent evolution, and who in their stories of family, love and survival form a ...
Shanghai's past and present flow together in Jia Zhangke's poetic and poignant portrait of this fast-changing port city. 9 IMDb 6.9 1 h 58 min 2020. 18+.
