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...probably be seeing a lot more propatainment. The government's Cinematography Department, first founded by Ho Chi Minh 50 years ago, announced in February that it would only release films with "popular appeal." It has already rejected eight scripts deemed boring. Not all Vietnamese-made films are political. Dang Nhat Minh's Guava Season, for example, is relatively apolitical and has received international praise. But the vast majority of scripts carry the Party message, which is perhaps why so few people pay to see them. The challenge, says Cinematography Department deputy director Nguyen Thi Hong Ngat, is finding ways...
...permits. The government will still censor the finished films (it also decides which foreign films are allowed to be screened) but won't require preapproved scripts as it does for state-produced films. Already, some of the country's most respected directors are considering the private sector, including Dang Nhat Minh and Vuong Duc, whose soon-to-be-released Lost Treasure explores what he calls the bankrupting of Vietnamese intellectual life. "Competition will mean better films," says Duc, who sparked controversy last month when he publicly scorned Bar Girls as a pandering piece of trash...
Elswit lives near scruffy MacArthur Park in downtown Los Angeles. She fits the profile of the eager young progressive: her tastes run to mountain climbing, experimental art and the Buddhist religious scholar Thich Nhat Nanh. But she's no flake. Elswit is the closest thing to a professional antiwar activist, holding down jobs at two peace-advocacy groups. In between breakfast meetings with religious leaders and other opponents of the war, she is coordinating a civil-disobedience event planned for this week in Los Angeles that will include a candle-light vigil on Hollywood Boulevard. Elswit and other young antiwar...
...said to have specific medicinal powers. Gecko is purported to be a natural antibiotic. Black crow supposedly cures backaches. Aphrodisiac versions come with goat testicles, starfish and sea horse. Then there's the secret herbal recipe with a name that conveys a sense of its rare erotic promise: Nhat Da Ngu Giao, or One Night, Five Times...
...This is the rich man's way of making films," says Dang Nhat Minh, the distinguished Vietnamese auteur who, as a favor to Noyce, shot second unit on the first major U.S.-financed film made in Vietnam since the war. The budget for The Quiet American was $30 million?100 times what Dang spent for his award-winning The Season of Guavas. "Basically, it's the same. Here, they just have a lot more equipment...