# Bi Gan

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April Recommendations

Your monthly delve into all that's culturally unmissable is back! Here's our comprehensive look at the best in music, film, streaming and even a book review. Presented by Rob, Phil, Dave and Kevin. With Project Hail Mary filling the mainstream slot, Bi Gan's Resurrection occupying the fringe, and a…

Interstellar (Live) and Resurrection (Episode 142)

On this episode of Reel Talk: The Movie Show, Ian Buckley joins Sam Stokes to discuss a unique duo of films, Interstellar, which Sam had the pleasure of watching with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, and Bi Gan's Cannes Special Prize winning Resurrection. They admire the filmmakers' impres…

Two by Bi Gan: Kaili Blues & Long Day's Journey into Night | 2.54cm barrier

Bi Gan's Resurrection was a stunning piece of cinema. We reviewed it in detail here: https://youtu.be/8QphaP7fHhwHis two other (publicly available) films, Kaili Blues (2015) and Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018) are the topic of this 2.54cm barrier episode. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Quiet …

S4E8: Resurrection (2025)

Today, the UMassterclass team discusses Bi Gan's 2025 film, Resurrection. Resurrection follows the journey of a "deliriant," in a future where humanity has given up dreaming, as he relives one hundred years across multiple dreams, aided by a woman using the lost techniques of cinema. The six segmen…

To Sleep Perchance To Ream

     This week- two films about dreams showing terrifying futures.     In the distant future, humanity has given up dreaming for immortality. An anthology following one dreamer's last four dreams with each dream connecting to ayatana, the six sense recognized in Buddhist philosophy, and told throug…

Lost in Translation (episode 67)

This episode was intended to be a grab-bag of different topics, but we inadvertently dug up a show with a strong theme: translation! We start off with a review of the hot-off-the-presses free magazine Small Planet, which discusses issues around translated science fiction. Even if you didn't know yo…

1X1 2 PART FOUR: RESURRECTION (2025)

Send us Fan Mail RESURRECTION  Season 17 of the TGTPTU enters the final half of its 1x1 coverage with a flick picked by host Ryan that might count as five films: RESURRECTION (2025) written and directed by Chinese auteur Bi Gan.    Covering the Buddhist classification of six senses (with the wrapp…

S2 Ep2331: ECKERD COLLEGE NEWS International Cinema Series at Eckerd College

In this episode of ECKERD COLLEGE NEWS, host Nanette Wiser shares the latest update from the Eckerd College newsroom. The International Cinema Series presents critically acclaimed and important films from around the world (including independent and artistic American films) almost every week. We sh…

Podcasting in Time: Voyage in Time + That One Scene From Atomic Blonde with Jake Serwin

Podcasting in Time is brought to you by the Afterheads and Producers on Patreon in collaboration with my unemployment. If you enjoy it, SUBSCRIBE to get episodes early and enable me to do more things like this. You'll also get all the other bonus episodes of TIYA After Dark: https://www.patreon.com…

At Home Screening - Resurrection (2025)

The fact that this film was hard to come by and we were therefore unable to watch it until after completing our top 10 lists for 2025 is gonna haunt me... Prepare for stunning visuals, an anthology-style framing story, and a series of dreamy mood pieces that will have you feeling all types of ways …