Word: chen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ching Chen, this year's winner. The Eliot House sophomore says it was almost on a whim that, in the space of two months, she learned Tchaikovsky's long and demanding first piano concerto, which she will play with the HRO at Sanders Theater tonight...
...always wanted to be a wellrounded person. Taking non-music classes, that's why I came here. Also, I wanted to make friends who are not musicians. When you're with musicians, they talk generally about just music," says Chen, who will travel with the HRO on its East Asian tour this summer...
...CAMERA pans across a ballroom filled with decadent partygoers. Strains of a Viennese waltz can be heard in the background. The waltz becomes diabolical as the camera zooms into actress Joan Chen's face. A tear rolls down her marble-white cheek. She picks up a lily and starts chewing. slowly and sensually...
...scenes of debauchery and debasement. A master of capturing erotica, Bertolucci takes advantage of Pu Yi's early imperial splendor and later playboy lifestyle in Tienstin to give cinema some of the most sensual images since Bertolucci's own Tango. Bertolucci and Storaro follow the emperor and empress (Chen) as rich and powerful friends seduce them. While the emperor continues to foster megalomanic visions of regaining the throne, his wife takes to opium...
...beautiful Chen gives a moving performances as Pu Yi's vulnerable, opium-addicted wife. Peter O'Toole, in a cameo as Pu Yi's English tutor, is like most of the rest of the cast in that he more or less just adds to the scenery. This film really belongs to Bertolucci. Though Lone and Chen have some wonderful scenes, particularly at the end of the film, the most stunning aspect of the film is the cinematography. Bertolucci has once again proven that he is the reigning emperor of cinema spectacle...