Film featuring Beijing's iconic pagoda nominated for Tiantan Award
1 year, 8 months ago

Film featuring Beijing's iconic pagoda nominated for Tiantan Award

China Daily  

Poster of The Shadowless Tower. The Shadowless Tower, the latest outing of arthouse director Zhang Lu, has been shortlisted from nearly 1,500 features to compete for the Tiantan Award, the top honor of the 13th Beijing International Film Festival. With veteran filmmaker Huang Jianxin serving as the executive producer, the film casts the actor Xin Baiqing as a poet-turned food influencer, actress Huang Yao as a photographer and filmmaker, and actor Tian Zhuangzhuang as the influencer's estranged father. The film features scenes set against Beijing's historic White Pagoda, located in the Miaoying Temple in Xicheng district. In earlier interviews with Chinese media outlets, director Zhang revealed that he was inspired while meeting with a friend at a cafe near the White Pagoda.

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Review: In the cryptic ‘The Shadowless Tower,’ connection is stymied by a murky past
9 months, 1 week ago

Review: In the cryptic ‘The Shadowless Tower,’ connection is stymied by a murky past

LA Times  

Chinese director Zhang Lu’s contemporary drama “The Shadowless Tower” is a gently enigmatic character piece that resists telling you too much about its characters. Gu Wentong is a divorced former poet and current restaurant critic with an endearing 6-year-old daughter everyone calls Smiley, who lives with Gu’s sister and brother-in-law. As Gu explores that reconnection, which Ouyang becomes a part …

Hoping for a towering success
1 year, 1 month ago

Hoping for a towering success

China Daily  

Scenes from the film The Shadowless Tower, featuring Xin Baiqing as a food critic and Huang Yao portraying a photographer in a cafe near the White Pagoda in Xicheng district in Beijing. Director Zhang Lu slowly recalls how he took a mere 14 days to write the script of The Shadowless Tower — the biggest winner at the 13th Beijing …

Hoping for a towering success
1 year, 1 month ago

Hoping for a towering success

China Daily  

Scenes from the film The Shadowless Tower, featuring Xin Baiqing as a food critic and Huang Yao portraying a photographer in a cafe near the White Pagoda in Xicheng district in Beijing. Director Zhang Lu slowly recalls how he took a mere 14 days to write the script of The Shadowless Tower — the biggest winner at the 13th Beijing …

Hoping for a towering success
1 year, 1 month ago

Hoping for a towering success

China Daily  

Scenes from the film The Shadowless Tower, featuring Xin Baiqing as a food critic and Huang Yao portraying a photographer in a cafe near the White Pagoda in Xicheng district in Beijing. Director Zhang Lu slowly recalls how he took a mere 14 days to write the script of The Shadowless Tower — the biggest winner at the 13th Beijing …

Hoping for a towering success
1 year, 1 month ago

Hoping for a towering success

China Daily  

Scenes from the film The Shadowless Tower, featuring Xin Baiqing as a food critic and Huang Yao portraying a photographer in a cafe near the White Pagoda in Xicheng district in Beijing. Director Zhang Lu slowly recalls how he took a mere 14 days to write the script of The Shadowless Tower — the biggest winner at the 13th Beijing …

Film featuring Beijing's iconic pagoda nominated for Tiantan Award
1 year, 8 months ago

Film featuring Beijing's iconic pagoda nominated for Tiantan Award

China Daily  

Poster of The Shadowless Tower. The Shadowless Tower, the latest outing of arthouse director Zhang Lu, has been shortlisted from nearly 1,500 features to compete for the Tiantan Award, the top honor of the 13th Beijing International Film Festival. With veteran filmmaker Huang Jianxin serving as the executive producer, the film casts the actor Xin Baiqing as a poet-turned food …

Film featuring Beijing's iconic pagoda nominated for Tiantan Award
1 year, 8 months ago

Film featuring Beijing's iconic pagoda nominated for Tiantan Award

China Daily  

Poster of The Shadowless Tower. The Shadowless Tower, the latest outing of arthouse director Zhang Lu, has been shortlisted from nearly 1,500 features to compete for the Tiantan Award, the top honor of the 13th Beijing International Film Festival. With veteran filmmaker Huang Jianxin serving as the executive producer, the film casts the actor Xin Baiqing as a poet-turned food …

Film featuring Beijing's iconic pagoda nominated for Tiantan Award
1 year, 8 months ago

Film featuring Beijing's iconic pagoda nominated for Tiantan Award

China Daily  

Poster of The Shadowless Tower. The Shadowless Tower, the latest outing of arthouse director Zhang Lu, has been shortlisted from nearly 1,500 features to compete for the Tiantan Award, the top honor of the 13th Beijing International Film Festival. With veteran filmmaker Huang Jianxin serving as the executive producer, the film casts the actor Xin Baiqing as a poet-turned food …

Movie featuring Beijing's White Pagoda rakes in reviews at Berlin
1 year, 10 months ago

Movie featuring Beijing's White Pagoda rakes in reviews at Berlin

China Daily  

A scene in the movie takes the iconic White Pagoda as the backdrop. The Shadowless Tower, one of two Chinese-language films competing for top awards at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival, recently held its global premiere in Berlin, marking director Zhang Lu's fourth-time participating in the event. The 144-minute movie, starring actor Xin Baiqing and actress Huang Yao, was filmed …

Award winning film celebrates director's hometown of Xi'an
1 year, 11 months ago

Award winning film celebrates director's hometown of Xi'an

China Daily  

A pooster of Moonlight Shadow Wall. With former China Central Television's deputy head Gao Feng as the chief producer, the movie is written and directed by emerging filmmaker Ma Shiman, and casts two veteran actors, Li Bao'an and Wang Shuangbao. The film also features the iconic Xi'an City Wall - one of the country's largest and best-preserved ancient defenses - …

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