I was using the fifth volume of New Practical Chinese Reader, but decided to switch to:

Readings in Contemporary Chinese Cinema:
A Textbook of Advanced Modern Chinese
Chih-p'ng Chou, Wei Wang & Joanne Chiang
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8681.html

I've heard good things about Professor Chou's textbooks, but none of them struck my interest until this one - every lesson is based around a different contemporary Chinese movie. I'll definitely be adding words from the textbook as I learn them, but I was wondering if anyone else out there in Skritter land also uses this text. If other people are using it, I'll make a custom list for it.

no...but now i do!

i have been studying chinese for a year now, extremely intensive program and have now reached upper intermdiate/advanced level. i have been looking for interesting material that is "graded" and interesting.

thanks for the reference,
John

That looks totally awesome. Which movies does it cover?

Simp + Trad in the same book ! Excellent

Yeah, all the Princeton University Press books are simp/trad. I've been wanting to check out this series for a while.

A complete list of titles is here:

http://www.princeton.edu/clp/PUP%20Publications%20List.htm

This is a working link:

http://bit.ly/jIDs5

Here's the list of movies:

1. 一个都不能少 Not One Less (1999)
2. 一声叹息 A Sigh (2000)
3. 变脸 The King of Masks (1996)
4. 老井 Old Well (1986)
5. 城南旧事 My Memories of Old Beijing (1983)
6. 饮食男女 Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
7. 洗澡 Shower (1999)
8. 秀秀 Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (1998)
9. 霸王别姬 Farewell My Concubine (1993)
10. 或者 To Live (1994)

Right now I'm working through the first lesson with my tutor, and it's really been a pleasure.

As a side note, the star of Not One Less, 魏敏芝 Wei4 Min3Zhi1, hasn't appeared in any other major productions, which is a loss for all of us:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0917660/

But I did find two articles about her from 2007:
http://newsroom.byuh.edu/?q=node/831
http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/cw/214270.htm