Visions tackles two widely different cinematic intentions, as Chris Auty talks to the new owners of the commerce-orientated Cannon Classic, while Simon Field interviews experimental film director Michael Snow.
Tony Rayns presents a look at the new generation of Hong Kong film makers and the pressures they face from censorship, traditional Cantonese filmmaking and the need to be commercially successful.
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.
