With its sweeping Mongolian panoramas and majestic, real-life wolf packs, “Wolf Totem” should lure lovers of nature into the theater. But director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s 3-D action drama will also ...

Critic's review: 3 stars It’s 1967, at the start of China’s cultural revolution, and two students are sent to Inner Mongolia Their job is to teach tribal people on the far outskirts of civilization ...

A true story that manages to seem both mythical and too fantastic to have really happened, Jean-Jacques Annaud’s epic 3-D “Wolf Totem” is ultimately a hymn and a plea for ecological harmony. In 1967 ...

Jiang Rong’s award-winning novel, “Wolf Totem,” sends up a number of red flags. To begin with, it won the 2007 inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize. Does that immediately qualify it as a must read?

The success of Jean-Jacques Annaud’s handsome lupine adventure Wolf Totem relies in large part on the ratio between wolf and totem. There are wolves — those howling, majestic hunters of the Mongolian ...

Director Jean-Jacques Annaud had a fine bromance with a Mongolian wolf named Cloudy during the production of his latest film, “Wolf Totem,” now playing in limited release. “It was very strange,” says ...

With its sweeping Mongolian panoramas and majestic, real-life wolf packs, “Wolf Totem” should lure lovers of nature into the theater. But director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s 3-D action-drama will also ...

Despite its magnificent natural vistas and some pulse-pounding action in stunning 3D, “Wolf Totem” boils down to a familiar environmentalist allegory that doesn’t move or provoke too deeply. A ...

Filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud wouldn't seem to be the Chinese government's first choice to adapt the story of "Wolf Totem" to the big screen. He angered Chinese officials with his 1997 film, "Seven ...

Life on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia is hard and brutal, but it embodies an edifying nobility and symmetry too. That's one of the central themes of the electrifying Chinese novel Wolf Totem, ...

Hong Kong producer Bill Kong joined French director Jean-Jacques Annaud at a Beijing news conference Tuesday to celebrate their first filmmaking collaboration, the big screen version of the ...

“Wolf Totem” was named as best film at the Golden Rooster awards, the biggest award ceremony in mainland China. The annual awards which close China’s Hundred Flowers Film Festival, were this year held ...