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Forget the pugilistic antics of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the protracted historical sweep of The Last Emperor—Contemporary Chinese film represents far more than these staid stereotypes. As demonstrated by the Harvard Film Archive’s Annual Chinese Film Festival, China is in the midst of a renaissance in filmmaking. In his opening remarks for the festival, Archive curator Bruce Jenkins drew a parallel in his opening remarks between the impending change in China’s political leadership and the shift in the leadership of the vanguard of modern Chinese film...
...student and all of seething China will break open in Beijing, "the sick heart of this country." Jin's description of the massacre is vivid, short and sorrowful, suffused with the Inferno-like imagery he evokes throughout the novel. Frenzy overtakes first the soldiers, "unstoppable like a crazed dragon," and then their victims, consumed by grief, cursing the government even as they fall. It's at Tiananmen that Jin's scrupulous realism, which can prove a drag, pays off with bitter authenticity. His clean and lucid sentences contrast effectively with the insanity of soldiers executing unarmed students in the streets...
...pink for photo books - and who made her Hong Kong movie debut snogging in the buff with Lee in ?Sex and Zen II? - won two Hong Kong Film Awards the following year, and the year after that turned down Ang Lee?s offer to star in ?Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.? By now she?s surely been forgiven for her Cat III antics; last month she starred in the Sino-Franco-American action film ?The Transporter...
...Orejuela for good behavior, after the former boss of the notorious Cali cocaine cartel had served just seven years of his 17-year sentence for smuggling drugs to the United States. The Colombian government ordered an investigation into Judge Luz Amanda Moncada's conduct because ministers suspected corruption. MEANWHILE Dragon their feet Work on a New Zealand highway was stopped because of Karutahi, a legendary one-eyed dragon said to live in a swamp on the route. Sonny Wara of the Ngati Naho tribe said the dragon was "a feared thing in Maoridom" and sought talks with the road authorities...
...YORK at the premiere of Red Dragon...