The quote that opens Chinese director Liu Jian’s shaggy but amiable new animated feature is instructive. “To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life” is a passage from James ...
The low-key comedy about art school students premiered in competition at the end of the Berlin Film Festival. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic The rest of the voice cast represents a mix of ...
Chinese indie animated feature Art College 1994 will have its U.S. theatrical-run premiere at Metrograph in Manhattan this Friday, April 26, followed by a weeklong stand at the theater. It’s the third ...
Liu Jian brings his distinctive drawing style to bear on a talky, loosely autobiographical drama about art students in pre-millennial urban China. There’s a slightly frustrating lack of a single point ...