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...AWARDED. JOHN MILLS, 94, British actor who, during a 70-year-long career, has appeared in over 120 movies; the prestigious British Academy of Film and Television Arts Fellowship for his "outstanding contribution to world cinema"; in London. Mills won an Oscar in 1971 for his performance in Ryan's Daughter, and was knighted five years later for his service to film. Previous winners of the Fellowship award include Charlie Chaplin, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg...
...visit to the BFA to discuss the possibility of collaborating on The ChinaFilm Project. This discussion resulted in the arrival of a BFA delegation at Harvard two weeks ago to participate in a forum and associated workshops at the Harvard Film Archive on Nov. 22. Such workshops included Chinese cinema scholars from Harvard, as well as from Yale, Brown, Tufts, Northeastern and more. The program of Nov. 22 was particularly noteworthy: it was one of the largest congregations of BFA alumni and faculty ever to assemble in the United States, and for the first time outside of China, early student...
...compelling, or serious, subject matter.” In fact, technique actually enacts the content and is the perfect vehicle for conveying the heady, mercurial restlessness of youth. Dazzling is staunchly modern in its aesthetic, repeatedly suggesting the co-mingling of fiction and reality. The protagonist and narrator, a cinema usher with impaired vision, says at one point, “Maybe my mood is influencing your story...
Given such promising talent and the huge potential markets for Chinese cinema with China’s entry into the World Trade Organzation, Weaver is hopeful, yet cautious in his prognosis for the future. He warns of the subordination of the creative to the commercial, a phenomenon which is reciprocally evident in China itself, where theaters play only major action films and American blockbusters. One wonders if American audiences will take to the budding Chinese independents, or whether the industry will become Hollywood-ized by the importunate mainstream demands of its consumers...
...DIED. KAREL REISZ, 76, Czech-born film director who was a seminal figure in the renaissance of gritty British cinema in the 1960s; in London. Reisz is perhaps best known for directing Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), which launched British actor Albert Finney's career, and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), an acclaimed adaptation of the John Fowles novel...