Word: gongli
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...probably not gong to be a high seed, so we'll be going up against a tough team," Harvard Coach Jenny Allard said. "What more could you ask for? We'll be ready...
...weeklong event, AtomFilms.com drove a slow-moving RV equipped with a television for aspiring directors to use to screen their short films, in the hope of getting purchased by the site. Bad films were dropped off at the end of Main Street, like some chase-scene version of The Gong Show...
...tale, she might be a political functionary in the vast Chinese bureaucracy, fighting small battles to achieve obscure goals. That also seems the case with Zhang, director of the classics Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern, who has been drifting artistically since he and his leading lady, Gong Li, split five years ago. To Western eyes, this meandering parable registers as a perplexity and a disappointment...
...which rightly earned condemnation from the Vatican, is the most recent chapter in a long litany of abuses perpetrated against Chinese citizens who try to form religious organizations outside of the government's tight and watchful scrutiny. Although much has been made lately of the suppression of the Falun Gong movement, Catholic and Protestant churches in China have also been subjected to the repression of the Chinese government while the U.S. has barely murmured in protest...
...rest is a mess of slow-paced courtly intrigue and gory battle scenes, albeit gorgeously shot. Not even the radiant Gong Li, who too often proves the saving grace in other overly-serious cinematic efforts, is unable to rescue the titanic The Emperor and The Assassin from sinking under its own epic weight. In what should have been a stunning scene, Lady Zhao runs onto the corpse-strewn battlefield of her home-state Zhao to find the mass grave of all Zhao's children, massacred by Ying Zheng. At first incredulous, then hysterically digging up one small, blue body after...