Watching TV With the Red Chinese

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Watching TV With the Red Chinese

Released Jan 20, 2012

1h 45m

Drama

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Three Chinese students in 1980 New York become captivated by American culture, but violence and infidelity plunge them into a state of confusion and fear.

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Rated: D+

Jan 22, 2013

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V.A. Musetto

New York Post

Dotan takes this iffy story and makes it nearly unwatchable by jumping back and forth in time, using screens within screens and bouncing between color and black-and-white.

Rated: 0.5/4

Jan 20, 2012

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Daniel M. Gold

New York Times

The film nicely captures the grad-student vibe: beer-fueled bull sessions about science, religion, probability and destiny; fragile, self-absorbed egos preening even as confidence wavers.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 19, 2012

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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo

Boxoffice Magazine

Less a story loosely bound by cause and effect than a kind of scrapbook of memories, all of which convey the concerns of being super smart and mostly confused in a culturally mixed Manhattan, circa 1980.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 29, 2012

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Kam Williams

AALBC.com

A cautionary tale of innocence lost, delivering a prophetic message with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight that a generation ago America might have already been 'a culture in decay.'

Rated: 3/4

Jan 21, 2012

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Ever want to see a movie or read a book and can't find it. Well this one is it for me. I can't wait to see this film, I just cant find it, its not online, in the theatre, at any festivals, or video stores, and the book is so old i can't find a copy either. when will I see this film, or find this book so I can actually write a review, something about the trailers i saw, or this film just makes me want to see it. The one time I am not in New York, that's the only place it seems you can see it. If anybody's got a private jet and wants to see it drop me a line, Im on the west coast though.

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01/26/23

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Synopsis

Three Chinese students in 1980 New York become captivated by American culture, but violence and infidelity plunge them into a state of confusion and fear.

Director: Shimon Dotan
Producer: Shimon Dotan, Netaya Anbar, Sameer Butt
Screenwriter: Shimon Dotan, Netaya Anbar
Distributor: Roam Films
Production Co: Blue Water Productions
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 20, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 9, 2021
Runtime: 1h 45m

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