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...fried dough is pretty good,” said Heidi E. Reiner ’05, who also took pictures of two Falun Gong followers meditating by the Charles River. “That’s what I came...
Plimpton also earned a temporary position with the New York Philharmonic, playing the sleigh bells, triangle, bass drum and gong...
...mainstream Hollywood movies that carpet the globe and the Asian and European films that are the Toronto fest's main fare, it's this: Hollywood movies are about (and for) guys; art films are about women. So the true stars of this year's festival were luminous presences like Gong Li, who never seemed more relaxed and human than in Sun Zhou's triangle romance Zhou Yu's Train-we note, with pleasure, her steamy sex scene with Hong Kong's Tony Leung Ka-fai-and Korea's Moon So Ri, the lead in A Good Lawyer's Wife...
...director Zhang Yimou. Shuiseng (Wang Xiaoxiao), a small town boy, is brought to the Shanghai of the 30s by his Uncle Liu (Xuejian Li). Uncle Liu takes him to work for a very wealthy mafia boss, Tang (Baotian Li) and his mistress Xiao Jingbao, played by the timeless Gong Li. Overwhelmed by the glitzy life of the big city and the opulence around him, Shuiseng also witnesses inter-triad betrayal, Xiao’s tumultuous love affair and vicious gang wars. The plot carries director Zhang’s trademark of conveying the dark side of Chinese politics. Shanghai Triad...
RAISE THE RED LANTERN. Under an arranged marriage, Songlian (Gong Li) enters the residential compound of a wealthy Chinese man. She becomes caught amidst the scheming of his other wives, who live in separate houses and vie constantly for their husband’s attention. The exquisite film, directed by Zhang Yimou (Hero), offers a bleak view of upper-class family life in 1920s China. Raise the Red Lantern screens Thursday, August...