It's not about a robot

Dave White

06 Aug 2025 — 1 min read

Quick one today.

Go watch one of my favorite films of 2025, Jia Zhangke's "Caught By the Tides." Assembled from two decades of footage (alternate takes, scenes from earlier films, and b-roll) from his earlier films, it's a beautiful, not-fully-linear story of two people coming in and out of each other's lives, aging in real time from the early 2000s until now, as China changes around them.

Here's the episode of LINOLEUM KNIFE where we talk about it.

It's rentable online and it's also new to the Criterion Channel.

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