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Great Films of the 21st Century
Escape the Old Lists and Recognize a New Century of Cinema
Completed · 69 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Jia Zhangke: We Need Film Critics with Incisive Views and Diverse Tastes Yao Chen: A Lang Truly Understands Film and Has Been My Mentor and Friend Zhang Yi: A Banner of Film Criticism Raised from the North Guo Fan: A Lang Still Believes There Is an “Elephant” in Cinema Zhou Liming: A Film Critic Perfectly Suited to the Role Leung Man-tao: Discovering How to Watch Movies with A Lang A Lang: Before the Second Great Migration of Cinema A Lang: Was Cinema Already Dead at the Start of the 21st Century? 1. Ang Lee between East and West, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2. Six Bob Dylans and I'm Not There 3. Pixar Animation through Satoshi Kon's Paprika 4. An Anti-Hollywood Insurrection and Revolution | There Will Be Blood 5. A Model for Building a Real Wasteland | Mad Max: Fury Road Bonus | The Culture, Phenomenon, and Box Office of Avengers 6. The Last Glory of Classicism | The Lord of the Rings Behind the Scenes | The Most-Watched Film in the Movie View Editorial Office 7. The Question of German Guilt | The Reader 8. How Cinema Gazes at Time | Boyhood and Kaili Blues New Release | Alfonso Cuarón's Roma: Empty Yet Full 9. Jiang Wen Catches the Sun Setting | The Sun Also Rises Impromptu Commentary | Jiang Wen's Turning Point: From Ma Xiaojun to Lan Qingfeng 10. The Bugle Call of the Fourth Film Movement | The Great Buddha+ 11. A Counterexample to Dramatic Conflict | The Way We Are 12. Hirokazu Kore-eda's Diamond Rage | Shoplifters 13. On Another Failed Reinvention of Tradition | The Secret in Their Eyes Bonus | My View of Ang Lee: “I Am a Failure” 14. A Rebellious Work Answering Big Data with Faith | Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale 15. The Instinct of Love | Blue Is the Warmest Color 16. A Still Life Growing with Its Era | Still Life 17. The Gray of Life and the White of Humanity | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 18. The Mournful Afterglow of Hong Kong Cinema | Infernal Affairs 19. Love Is the World's Greatest Cliché | Love Actually Bonus | How Can Effective Standards for an Industrial Film System Be Built? China and the United States Compared Behind the Scenes | How Does Data Influence Filmmaking? 20. The Mischievous Child of a Dark Fairy Tale | Pan's Labyrinth 21. A Tribute to Kurosawa's Sanshiro Sugata | Throw Down 22. Cinema as an Open-Ended Question | The Wind That Shakes the Barley 23. Alienation in Urban Cinema | Yi Yi 24. An Acting Lesson from Isabelle Huppert | The Piano Teacher 25. Gollum in The Lord of the Rings: Motion-Capture Performance 26. After Heath Ledger, There Is No Other Joker | The Dark Knight 27. Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour: Churchill Is Watching Me Too 28. Must a Crime Story Have a Killer? | Memories of Murder 29. If Memories of Love Could Be Erased | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 30. González the Destroyer | 21 Grams 31. The Clarity and Turbidity of Desire | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 32. Collision in the City of Angels | Crash 33. Great-Grandmother Coco Turns One Hundred | Coco 34. 007 Is Superman; Bourne Is Us | The Bourne Identity Bonus | Jin Yong: When the White Horse Neighed in the Western Wind 35. Love Is the Illusion of Loneliness | Her Bonus | Interview with Send Me to the Clouds Director Teng Congcong: Who Makes Films for Independent Urban Women? 36. Breaking the Walls of the War-Film Genre | Black Hawk Down 37. A Stream-of-Consciousness Romantic Ghost Story on a Tiny Budget | A Ghost Story 38. A Growing Tree Bears Forces Both Upward and Downward | The Tree of Life 39. All We Can Have Is Brokeback Mountain | Brokeback Mountain 40. Concentrating the Entire Narrative on a Computer Screen | Searching 41. Black-and-White Reflections in a Black-and-White Comic Adaptation | Sin City 42. Constructing Light in Space through Technology | Gravity 43. Desolate Beauty and Gray at the U.S.–Mexico Border | Sicario Bonus | Mid-Autumn Special: The Storyteller's Block Remains, but Pingshu Has Faded 44. The Camera Joins the Narrative as a Dancer | La La Land Bonus | Burning: We Are All Hungry 45. Iran Coming Apart | A Separation 46. Romania in 1987 through the Long Take | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 47. An Assassination Mission against the Taliban | Lone Survivor 48. A River Diverted by Sexual Assault | Mystic River 49. The Subtlest Code of Human Nature Is Hidden in… | Lust, Caution 50. The Original Sin of Poverty | I, Daniel Blake