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Visions Cinema: Cinema in China - An Account by Tony Rayns

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Tony Rayns, Sun Yu

History of filmmaking in China from its beginnings in the 1920s to 1982, featuring Shanghai cinema of 1930s; the progressive filmmakers; the organisation of filmmaking under the post-war communist government; the impact of the Cultural Revolution; the work of Xie Jin.

Visions Cinema: Film in the Philippines - A Report by Tony Rayns

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Tony Rayns, Manuel Conde

Film critic Tony Rayns interviews Lino Brocka and other prominent Filipino filmmakers.

Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns

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Tony Rayns, Li Cheuk-To

Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider film culture.

In The Shadow Of The Caravans

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This film is a glimpse of the traditional life of the Afghan people, their culture and their music, just before the Russian intervention in 1979.