I Have Graduated

English subtitles for the Director’s Cut are finally finished, after over a year of work. Thanks to the many who helped. Now in the process of setting up screenings later this year for both this and the same director’s Tiananmen series. If you’re a programmer, and you’re…

Sam C. Mac

I was much more satisfied with my introduction for this, in part because the film doesn’t demand nearly as much instruction for audiences to understand and connect with it. That allowed me to focus on the story of these filmmakers—Shi Jian especially—and on why they’ve left…

Sam C. Mac

Acquired the original master tape of this film, labeled as “first cut.” Unclear at this time if it’s the same tape that I already had digitally transferred. Along with Tiananmen, the original version of I Have Graduated will be made freely and responsibly available later…

Sam C. Mac

I need you to break open my heart So here's the deal: There seem to be a lot of misconceptions about this film. There are also some things about its production history that I haven't really figured out yet. The main thing I'm fairly certain is wrong: The director is not…

Sam C. Mac

(Wow I'm the first person to log this on Letterboxd. Exciting!) This is among the saddest documentaries I've ever seen. I really know nothing about Chinese documentaries, specifically the so-called New Chinese Documentary Movement of the 90s, but if this is the kind of…

Ron Ma

LOS ANGELES See the director's cut of I Have Graduated on the big screen This Saturday, September 12 @ Gardena Cinema Made independently in 1992, I Have Graduated turns to a generation of university students whose college years coincided with the upheavals of the late…

Sam C. Mac

65min cut DVDRemux, hope to watch original cut someday.

nicowwt

Don’t think i’ve seen the universally relatable pain of mass-separation post graduation put on full display as devastatingly as here Swarms of young students dissolving into a quivering mess amidst packed trains, the conductor doing them a solid delaying as long as…

Willy

Unforgettable. Thanks Roza for the recommendation

Gabrielle