Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time on his electric clock, Packwood realized there was a power outage. Worried that he might not have adequate light to groom himself for the morning talk shows just hours away, the Senator searched in vain for a flashlight. In a closet he found a Coleman lantern, only to discover that the glass was broken. Further gropings turned up a second Coleman, but Packwood fumbled in the dark, spilling kerosene. Finally, an hour after beginning his quest for light, Packwood produced a flicker--at which point, all his exertions were for naught. The electricity had come back...
...reel world, Western cinephiles have a three-China policy. They embrace mainland dramas by artists like Chen and Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern). They are beguiled by the Taiwanese domestic comedies of Ang Lee (The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman) and impressed by the daunting meditations of Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Good Men Good Women). And they get their giddy thrills from the wild Hong Kong action films featuring Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat, who are two of the world's top movie stars. Chinese pictures cannily appeal to audiences of every brow--high, middle...
...Crimson reached Kenneth Anger in his hotel room in Chicago last Thursday as he was preparing to come to Harvard for this weekend's "Magick Lantern Show" at the Harvard Film Archive...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., HarvardSquare. 876-6837. "Raise the Red Lantern" at 3:30and 7:40 p.m. and "Red Sorghum" at 5:50 and 10p.m. on Thursday, March 23. "An Evening withTroma" on Friday, March 24 at 7:15 p.m. "Red" at5:15 and 10 p.m. on Friday, March 24 and at 2, 4,6, 8 and 10 p.m. on Saturday, March 25. "EasyRider" at 3:30 and 7:40 p.m. and "Midnight Cowboy"at 5:25 and 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 26. "TheLost Weekend" at 3:30 and 7:40 p.m. on Monday,March...
Zhang Yimou is prone to relying on visual gimmicks. Whether it was the wine in "Red Sorghum", the lanterns in "Raise the Red Lantern" or the dyed fabric in "Ju Dou," his cinematic crutch is obvious and sometimes self-defeating--it forces the viewer into visual overload. "To Live" is a happy exception...