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RAVEL’S “LA VALSE” : CHANG LIU AND JOHN PROVINE
...John Ford's The Searchers and the Jackie Chan--Michelle Yeoh Supercop, as well as a rehabilitation of Pei Mei, a.k.a. White Eyebrow, a villainous character from '70s Hong Kong action films. Here he's a stern but endearing teacher (played with majestic comic brio by the legendary Gordon Liu). You'll also make the Kung Fu connection. That was the '70s TV series that made Carradine a star; he won the role over a transplanted Hong Konger named Bruce Lee, who went home to launch the worldwide martial-arts craze...
...photography is dead, it has never looked more beautiful. And if David Hockney were to visit Adelaide, he would probably stop dead in his tracks before one of Liu Xiao Xian's startling Lamda prints. For Liu's Home series, the Beijing-born, Sydney-based artist has Photoshopped Chinese family portraits before painted backcloths of places like the Summer Palace and Tiananmen Tower, together with larger backdrops of tourist sites such as Buckingham Palace and Sydney Harbour. With these digital dioramas of hope and home, Liu suggests photography's infinite possibilities, not its death. Here Hockney's worst nightmare...
...might be the only Chinese film in history to have started as a concept musical album. The three actresses happen to be label mates, and Liu thought it was time they collaborated on a CD. "Sinjie was 20, I was 30 and Sylvia was about 40," says Liu. "So I decided the name should be 20:30:40. While searching for a record producer, Chang hit upon the idea of making a movie of the same name that would map out the three decades she calls "a woman's golden ages." "I said no, no, no, that...
...Chang wrote her part of the story and asked Liu and Lee to sketch out narratives for their characters. But even with Chang's track record?starring roles in films such as The Red Violin, writing and directing more than 10 movies, including critical hits like 1999's Tempting Heart?20:30:40 was a tough sell. "Women's projects are never very hot," she says. "People hear 'Sylvia Chang' and they think, 'Ugh, women's film.'" But Chang insisted there was an audience for a Chinese movie that didn't show triads or flying swordsmen. With the help...