Word: filming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...East Palace West Palace (1996) plays at the Harvard Film Archive November 12th and 13th at 9pm. Zhang Yuan won the Silver Omb for best direction and best screenplay for East Palace West Palace at the 1996 Mar del Plata Film Festival...
...From this movement emerged the visually stunning Yellow Earth, Red Sorghum, and Raise the Red Lantern. Zhang Yuan's films embody a directional shift in Chinese film. Instead of turning backward in time to locate and problematize the Chinese experience, Zhang turns inward. His films capture modern psychological tales rather than distanced histories. However, the Fifth Generations' affinity for setting their films in the pre-Revolutionary past was more than stylistic choice-it was practical necessity. State monopoly funding of films and a wary censorship board forced any critique of the regime to be shrouded in allegory. Zhang bypassed...
...Even before shooting Beijing Bastards, Zhang knew that the first film to capture the lifestyles of China's contemporary Rock and Roll stars would be censored. His desire to document the society in which he lived--not the one in which the State wanted him to live--forced him to turn to friends and foreign corporations for money. Unlike many of China's other young directors, Zhang does not censor his own ideas to win State approval for his films. Consequently, only his first film, Mama (1990) has been released in China to date, although pirated Video Compact Discs (VCDs...
...feel about the modernization aspect of the film...
...always facing the problem of how to convey the essence of the story--it's almost impossible to be completely faithful and retain the spirit of the story. But something about the film strikes at the essence of the novel...