Uproar in the Studio

Andrew Fedorov, Reza Sayeed, and Noah Harouche

A podcast about Chinese blockbusters.

  1. 16/07/2021

    Bonus: The Taking of Tiger Mountain

    We talk about Tsui Hark’s adaptation of a Cultural Revolutionary model play, The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014), with five-time guest, reigning champ, last King of Scotland, conqueror of all the mountains, poet Yi Wu.

  2. 19/03/2021

    Bonus: Vanguard

    We review Jackie Chan’s mid-pandemic release, Vanguard, and talk with the film’s antagonist, returning guest Brahim Chab.

  3. 15/01/2021

    Bonus: Leap

    This month, we talked with Professor Liang Luo of the University of Kentucky about the 2020 hit Leap, which tells the storied history of the Olympic champion Chinese women’s national volleyball team led by the legendary Lang Ping.

  4. 25/12/2020

    Bonus: My People, My Country

    This month we’re talking about My People, My Country, a 2019 anthology film capturing moments of spectacle and national pride from the founding of the People’s Republic to the present. We’re joined by Michael Berry, Director of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies.

  5. 24/11/2020

    Hitchhike: Setting Out

    The first episode of Hitchhike, a new podcast by Andrew Fedorov, one of Uproar’s co-hosts, featuring interviews with hitchhiking artists. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and follow on twitter @HitchhikePod.

  6. 19/10/2020

    Bonus: The Climbers

    We’re back with a bonus episode on Wu Jing’s 2019 should-be blockbuster, The Climbers. We’re joined by Wufei Yu, a writer for Outside and the New York Times, to talk about the movie, growing excitement for adventure sports in China, and the significance of doing an AMA on Everest.

  7. 14/08/2020

    Mask On (The Iron Mask)

    We close season two with 2019’s Russian-Chinese, Jackie Chan-Arnold Schwarzenegger co-production, The Iron Mask. Lead actress Anna Churina remembers Arnold getting punched so hard he bled. Stuntman Mathieu Jaquet says Jackie’s stunt double got plastic surgery to look more like him. And stuntman and actor Paul Allica compares working on Wolf Warrior 2 to working … Continue reading Mask On (The Iron Mask) →

  8. 07/08/2020

    PS2 Deja Vu (Knight of Shadows)

    This week we talk about Jackie Chan’s 2019 monster hunter fantasy The Knight of Shadows with Larson DiFiori, Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University’s Religious Studies department. He helps us decipher the magical reality of this loose adaptation of Pu Songling’s Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

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A podcast about Chinese blockbusters.

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  • Creator
    Andrew Fedorov, Reza Sayeed, and Noah Harouche
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2021
  • Episodes
    22
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Uproar in the Studio