"The most difficult thing on set was the background and when I was filming, I wish I could have come back to the Tang Dynasty to see how it was really in those days," movie director Hou Hsiao-Hsien told Xinhua.
Director Hou Hsiao-Hsien of China's Taiwan was awarded Best Director for the film Nie Yinniang at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.
Chinese director Jia Zhangke had some musical inspiration for his Cannes entry "Mountains May Depart": the Pet Shop Boys.
At a time when most movie producers seem to trust only celebrities to pull in box-office bucks, Hong Kong director Derek Yee has made a big-budget movie with, and about, a relatively unknown cast.
China's annual Film Critics' Choice Awards have been given to five films instead of 10, Han Bingbin reports.
An online talkshow hosted by China's most renowned antique collector, Ma Weidu, has become a surprise hit, with young audiences showing a keen interest in Ma's discussions about culture, history and social events.
The political satire Gone With the Bullets has won the Dirty Ashtray Award for being the smokiest film of the past year. Xu Fan reports.
"It takes lonely days, sleepless nights and an inevitably self-centered eye to create a great artwork, whether it's a movie or a piece of music," says Chinese singer-songwriter Shang Wenjie, referring to Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai's latest movie, Red Amnesia.
The latest Avengers may be selling tickets well here in China but the translation of the subtitles have left moviegoers confused and disappointed.
A Chinese narrative musical tradition is being kept alive by Gao Bowen, who believes modernizing it will help popularize it among youngsters.
For the actors in the upcoming wartime thriller Brothers, the biggest challenge was to perform against a green screen, imagining it was, in fact, a battlefield.
Top Asian filmmaker Peter Chan Ho-sun is to direct and produce a biopic on tennis star Li Na.
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