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“I Was Fascinated By the Way Film Could Represent Reality”: Yung Chang in Conversation with Robert Fisk

The director of This is Not a Movie interviews his subject, Middle East correspondent Fisk, about his abiding love of cinema.

October 16, 2020

Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) Talks François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell’s Turbo Kid

This '80s retro teen flick by the so-called Roadkill Superstars collective prompts major flashbacks for a filmmaker raised on a diet of VHS.

August 27, 2015

Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) Talks Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Manos Sucias

A Spike Lee protégé makes an impression with his debut feature, an intense moral thriller that puts a human face on South American drug trafficking.

April 3, 2015

Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) Talks Taking His Mother to the Oscars

The Final Oscar Word from Mamarazza Chang or (An Academy Member’s Mother’s Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).

March 7, 2015

Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) Talks Patricia Benoit’s Stones in the Sun

The documentary filmmaker is greatly impressed by this intimate, simply told drama, and particularly by one movingly authentic opening scene.

November 17, 2014

Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) Talks Sebastian Junger’s Korengal

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to make a film following the opium trade from seed to drug addict.

May 27, 2014

Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) Talks Andreas Johnsen’s Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case

I’d love to be able to make a film like Andreas Johnsen has done with his latest documentary, Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case.

May 15, 2014