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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...realism, curated and introduced by Martin Scorsese. (One disappointment: in the recent month dedicated by Sophia Loren, only five of the 23 films were Italian.) A season on Asian faces in Hollywood movies veered eastward for two extremely rare Chinese silent films starring Shanghai's original tragic movie diva Ruan Lingyu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 15 Reasons to Love Turner Classic Movies | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...third century A.D., the Chinese scholar and musician Ruan Ji began a 60-day drinking binge. Ji got smashed every day to avoid serving in a corrupt government, and wrote music like “Wine Madness,” which in some versions has a final coda labeled “The immortal exhales his wine.” Though drinking served as a leitmotif during last week’s residency of the Silk Road Project—founded and directed by Yo-Yo Ma ’76—each piece of music was far more...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Silk Road Project Drinks to the Music | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

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