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...empress (Gong Li) is canoodling with her stepson, the Emperor (Chow Yun Fat) is trying to poison the Empress, and the whole royal house seems less later Tang dynasty than Aaron Spelling's Dynasty. This gorgeous surprise from China's Zhang Yimou (Hero) looks like a martial-arts movie but plays like delirious melodrama. The fearless, peerless turns from Chow and Gong Li demonstrate how the fiercest swordplay can come from two charismatic stars staring daggers at each other...
...anywhere. In the past 19 months Sotheby's has created a stand-alone modern-Chinese-art division, and Christie's showcases the art alongside such modern masters as Andy Warhol and Willem de Kooning. At a Christie's auction in October in New York City, pieces by Chinese painters Li Songsong, Yan Lei and Zhang Xiaogang set record prices. Another Christie's auction in Hong Kong in November broke records again: a 1993 painting by Zhang went for $2.3 million, the most ever paid for a work by a living Chinese artist at international auction...
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER The knives are out at the palace, and Gong Li is staring daggers. Chinese cinema's haughtiest diva plays a 10th century Empress who is having an affair with her stepson while, she suspects, her husband (Chow Yun Fat) is slowly poisoning her. That's just for appetizers in a menu of long-lost parents, eloping lovers and the minor distraction of a civil war out in the grand courtyard...
Chow, the long-ago supercool star of Hong Kong crime movies, parades a magnificent malevolence he's not unleashed before. And Gong Li, working for the first time in 11 years with the director (and ex-lover) who made her an international star in Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern, shows a passion that has never been so animated or tearful...
...eating,” said Liu, who teaches Life Sciences 1a, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology.” “We mostly chose the judges because of their popularity among students,” said Chen Li ’09, publicity co-chair for HRCSA. The night kicked off with a HRCSA-produced video that featured the theme song from the popular TV show “Iron Chef,” as well as footage of the teams cooking, which was done in advance. Fuerza...