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...measure the accomplishment of Sense and Sensibility simply by observing that it meets all these contradictory standards. It does so while presenting us with a vast range of richly developed, gorgeously played characters ("Can everyone in England act?" Thompson reports director Ang Lee asking after one particularly fruitful casting session) and moving them gracefully through time and a lot of very pretty spaces without ever losing its conviction, its concentration or our bedazzled attention...
...will be nominated for an Oscar," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "They also give the films' publicists a major tool in marketing the films." Other winners in the 61st annual Film Critics Circle awards went to Jennifer Jason Leigh who won best actress in the film "Georgia"; Ang Lee as best director for "Sense and Sensibility"; Kevin Spacey as best supporting actor in three films -- "Seven," "The Usual Suspects," "Swimming with Sharks" and "Outbreak." Mira Sorvino won best supporting actress for Woody Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite...
...Last May he attended V-E day ceremonies with 50 other world leaders in Moscow and in July enjoyed a state visit to Germany. On such occasions he is an enthusiastic guest, smiling, shaking hands, chatting in one of his three foreign languages (Russian, Romanian and English), reciting T'ang-dynasty poetry and even quoting lines from the U.S. Declaration of Independence...
...reel world, Western cinephiles have a three-China policy. They embrace mainland dramas by artists like Chen and Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern). They are beguiled by the Taiwanese domestic comedies of Ang Lee (The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman) and impressed by the daunting meditations of Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Good Men Good Women). And they get their giddy thrills from the wild Hong Kong action films featuring Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat, who are two of the world's top movie stars. Chinese pictures cannily appeal to audiences of every brow--high, middle...
Because Chen's Temptress Moon, like Zhang's Triad, is set in Shanghai before the 1949 revolution, both directors can expect their new films to be seen in China. But what can these profligately gifted filmmakers do next? Perhaps emigrate to America, where they can join John Woo and Ang Lee in showing Hollywood how to blend film technique with personal fire. But to do so would be to renounce the people, problems and landscape they have devoted their careers to putting eloquently on film. Maybe they should move down to Hong Kong in 1997, and hope for the best...