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...April 22 at the Fogg Museum, masterfully takes up this issue and explores the ways photography shaped both Europe's real and imaginary encounters with the Middle East. The exhibit combines both commercial and amateur prints in the forms of snapshots, commercially reproduced photo albums, postcards, panoramic prints and lantern slides. The exhibit focuses on the main areas of photographic representation: landscapes, portraiture, Western technological innovation and representational images...
...thrice-told tale. Ingmar Bergman first brought it to the screen in Scenes from a Marriage, then devoted a chapter of his autobiography, The Magic Lantern, to it. Now, at 82, he has written it again, this time as a savage domestic tragedy...
...also wouldn't catch many people attempting what Zhang Yimou, renowned for lush emotional masterpieces like Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern, has set out to achieve in his newest film, Hero. Flush with Chinese, U.S. and Hong Kong funding, Hero is the most ambitious martial-arts epic since Taiwanese director Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won four Oscars in 2001 and broke the box-office mold by becoming the most successful foreign film to hit the U.S. That victory remains both a blessing and a curse for the Chinese film industry: it raised awareness of Asian...
Zhang Yimou's martial-arts epic Hero has a boffo cast, a big budget, an award-winning crew - and the burden of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Responsible for such hits as Red Sorghum, Raise the Red Lantern and The Road Home, the award-winning director spoke recently to TIME Asia entertainment correspondent Stephen Short and Senior Reporter Susan Jakes on the set of Hero in Hengdian, China. Edited excerpts...
...jack-o-lantern on the head of the John Harvard statue...