Chinese movies are gaining more and more respect internationally, as China's movie industry is commemorating its 100th anniversary.

In the latest issue of the American magazine Time, professional film critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel have chosen the "All-Time 100 Movies" and in the list there are four Chinese movies, namely, A Touch of Zen (1971), Farewell To My Concubine (1993), Drunken Master II (1994) and Chungking Express (1994).

A Touch of Zen, directed by King Hu, was the first Chinese action movie to win a prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Farewell To My Concubine, directed by Chen Kaige, is selected because it is a rich dramatization of the venial and mortal betrayals that are the secret, somber melodies of our lives.

According to Time, Drunken Master II, co-directed by Liu Chia-Liang and Jackie Chan, is also chosen because its director and main actor Jackie Chan is the most important and entertaining star of east Asian cinema.

Time also praises director Wong Kar Wai for developing a style like no other director in his Chungking Express.

(CRI.com June 15, 2005)