"Shadow" leads the Golden Horse nominations
Good news for fans of Zhang Yimou. His latest film Shadow, which we quite liked at TIFF, leads the 55th annual Golden Horse nominations which focus on Chinese language cinema. The higher Shadow's profile gets the more eyeballs it will theoretically find once Well Go, releases it in US theaters. It's definitely worth seeing in a movie theater since it's a visual spectacle. China still hasn't named their Oscar submission so we hope it's going to be Shadow which was released at home yesterday, the last day of eligibility for Oscar's Foreign Language Film submission requirements.
Interestingly enough, Hong Kong's Oscar submission Operation Red Sea received NO nominations whatsoever.
A full list of Golden Horse nominations is after the jump with links to reviews for the few films we've seen...