Word: alleyways
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...Jiang Wen's a man's man," counters a stout, high school swimming coach craning his neck to see his virile idol ambling down a narrow Beijing alleyway. Onscreen, Jiang's toughness is best when it's paired with vulnerability. In the role that made him famous across China, as a fresh-off-the-boat newlywed in the 1993 TV series A Beijing Man in New York, Jiang played an out-of-work cellist who battles bitchy bosses, sticky-fingered factory managers and an immigrant's ennui. In Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum, he makes passionate love to Gong...
...Green Tea, a guy-meets-girl urban romance due out in the fall, camera equipment and lights are strewn around a dusty Beijing alleyway. Jiang tilts his aluminum patio chair precariously against the alley wall, a cigarette pasted to his bottom lip, meditating on his next scene with actress Zhao Wei. Director Zhang Yuan is in a nearby building reviewing today's footage, while Christopher Doyle and his crew are readying equipment for the next shot. A crew member relates how Jiang has his hands in every part of the shoot?coaching other actors, conceiving new shots, even asking...
...overwhelming body of anecdotal evidence and witness reports point to state complicity, and even involvement, in the anti-Muslim pogrom. Hamid was simply another victim, says Qureishi, shot by a policeman in the right kidney April 23 while standing in the doorway of his family home. Up a narrow alleyway a few meters away, Qureishi points to the quiet flagstone courtyard where on the same day she found Yusuf Khan, father of four, beaten unconscious with steel pipes. She carried him to an ambulance, but he died hours later. On the same street Abdul Munaf, 26, is nursing his bandaged...
...HUPD officer conducted a field interview of a group in the alleyway of the Loeb Drama Center. Shawn Wiegand, 27, of Revere, who had two outstanding warrants, was arrested and taken into custody...
...gritty urban ghetto was reflected in brutal, excessive violence, whereas here, in restrained Victorian England, with the slums looking cleaner than ever; much remains sanitized until all hell breaks loose. That the brothers are gifted natural filmmakers is evidenced as when the first victim succumbs in a murky alleyway, and all we see is a gleaming silver knife flashing out of the gloom. The shot’s effectiveness lies in the stark contrast between light and dark, inverting a symbol by making a gleaming, bright element an instrument of death. The fact that the action remains largely unseen...