Word: anh
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Finally, the task of remembering Vietnam has fallen to a Vietnamese writer- director. The Saigon on view in Tran Anh Hung's The Scent of Green Papaya, recently nominated for a foreign-language-film Oscar, is serene, shimmering and stripped of melodrama. Set in two ominously tranquil periods -- 1951, a few years before the French collapse at Dien Bien Phu, and 1961, just before the U.S. buildup -- Green Papaya is seemingly apolitical. Yet in Tran's family drama one can see a society torn between East and West, passivity and passion, duty and will, ancient rites and modern desires...
...satisfyingly, surrenders to the conventions of the thriller genre. The festival had two out-of-nowhere finds, both set in the '50s and '60s: Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Blue Kite, from China, and The Odor of Green Papaya, a lovely Vietnamese film made in France by writer-director Tran Anh Hung, 30, and a cast of refugees; both tell bold stories of a child's coming of age. And Abel Ferrara's Hollywood horror movie Body Snatchers, saved from the slag heap of Warner Bros. rejects, revives the old parable of the Pod People with a frame-by-frame savvy...
...came on the evening of Tuesday, Nov. 6, at a sale at Sotheby's in New York City. Anh in a Spanish Landscape, a large 1988 image done in broken plates by the Meatball Hero of the epoch, Julian Schnabel, was hoisted onto the auction block. It had been bought in London for $225,000 in 1989 by a Canadian speculator with Hong Kong money. Then the owner consigned it for sale to a New York gallery, where it hung for some weeks with a price tag of $650,000 on it. No takers. Feeling the pinch, the owner sent...
...Anh T. Nguyen-Huynh...
...This Issue: Joseph R. Palmore '91 Night Editors: Melissa R. Hart '91 Tara A. Nayak '92 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Eric S. Solowey '91 Mark N. Templeton '92-'93 Editorial Editor: John L. Larew '91 Feature Editor: William H. Bachman '92 Sports Editor: Michael D. Stankiewicz '92 Photo Editor: Anh T. Nguyen-Huynh '90 Business Editor: Raymond Nomizu '91 Copy Editor: Jacqueline L. Blocker...