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...Capa was inconsolable, and part of him died with her. Still, he pursued his calling, traveling to China in 1938 to cover the Sino-Japanese war, back to Spain as the Republican cause was collapsing and then, as World War II raged, on to North Africa, Sicily, the Italian mainland and - most traumatically - to Omaha Beach and the slaughter of the D-Day invasion. It was in Spain that Capa took his best-known photo, which purported to show a militiaman a split second after he'd been fatally shot. Debate over its authenticity still rages. The "truth...
...pantheon of white-hot Chinese directors. The problem was that the director sent the movie to Cannes before it had been approved by China's censors, who are acutely sensitive not only about political dissent and sex but about how the Japanese are portrayed in films shown on the mainland. Beijing got angry. As a result, Devils has never been shown in China, and worries about official displeasure have scared Jiang into staying clear of the director's chair ever since...
...passed since the film won its award at Cannes, Devils has never been screened in Hong Kong. It opened in Japan only in April and will hit theaters in Korea this month. Jiang won't talk about the movie, most likely to keep on the good side of the mainland's Film Bureau. (He's also been at legal odds with one of the movie's producers, who wanted Devils' 160-minute running time trimmed.) All he will say is: "I don't care what people think of my films. But they should be able to see them so they...
...Unknown Pleasures has this same edgy ennui in its tale of four young people; this being China, the driving is all on motorbikes. A more traditional mainland film, Dai Sajie's Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, brings literature to the rural masses but not much pop to the party. Outside the competition, Taiwan pursued its two-cinemas-one-country course. On the art side: Yee Chih-yen's Blue Gate Crossing, a teen courtship fable with a lovely, troubled mood. On the pop side: Chen Kuo-fu's Double Vision, an enjoyable, disposable serial-killer thriller with stars from...
...understandable that Chinese leaders might be a bit wary of massive, uncontrolled mobs of young people. A phenomenon called the Red Guards will do that to you. Maybe that's the real reason why jittery authorities canceled two recent mainland concerts by the mega-popular boy band F4, a quartet of very pretty Taiwanese lads. Their bubblegum music notwithstanding, recent F4 appearances in China have resembled early Beatles films, with out-of-control crowds and packs of swooning teenage girls. The final straw came at a planned concert at a Shanghai mall, when 10,000 fans-10 times the number...