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Yang’s wife, Harvard Medical School researcher Christina X. Fu, held a press conference on Capitol Hill yesterday afternoon to protest the verdict with Genser and a number of members of U.S. Congress...
...might make for bad press. And as the country's propaganda chief he had the power to order a nationwide news blackout. Today, the only real movement in and out of the shuttered complex is that of the resident abbot?a friend of Li's, according to local guide Fu Rongguang?who drives around the countryside in a chauffeured black Cadillac. To the rest of the world, the buddha might as well not exist?except that it can be plainly seen from miles away...
...takes the motion out of motion pictures comes his latest movie, Goodbye, Dragon Inn. Tsai opens this radical experiment in minimalist extremes in the middle of a ferocious rainstorm; the night before it is scheduled to be closed, a grand old Taipei theater is showing the landmark 1966 kung fu film Dragon Inn to a scattered handful of ghostlike characters, including a young Japanese tourist (Mitamura Kiyonobu) apparently cruising for gay men. The crippled, young ticket taker (Chen Shiang-chyi) stalks the venue in search of the mysterious projectionist (Lee Kang-sheng)?perhaps she's in love with...
...though they were themselves a separate character. Indeed, an entire subplot could be drawn merely among the players’ lips, which Tarantino leaves under scrutiny through his final scene. Surely most moviegoers will reject this lip thesis in favor of the fairly blatant kung fu theme which runs through—and, admittedly, uplifts—both volumes of Kill Bill. And certainly Quentin Tarantino has created a mildly epic tribute to his favored genre. But Vol. 2 makes a compelling case for a more serious interpretation of Tarantino’s talent, and the film justifies the otherwise...
...Jackie Chan--Michelle Yeoh Supercop, as well as a rehabilitation of Pei Mei, a.k.a. White Eyebrow, a villainous character from '70s Hong Kong action films. Here he's a stern but endearing teacher (played with majestic comic brio by the legendary Gordon Liu). You'll also make the Kung Fu connection. That was the '70s TV series that made Carradine a star; he won the role over a transplanted Hong Konger named Bruce Lee, who went home to launch the worldwide martial-arts craze...