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...opening tune. The audience is greeted by García Bernal’s character, Tato, crooning a Spanish cover of Cheap Trick’s “I Want You to Want Me,” complete with an accordion and cowboy outfit against a karaoke green screen. “I read through the script, and I came to a point that [Tato] wasn’t working,” Cuarón said. The script went through multiple revisions to give Tato a more comical desire to use soccer to fuel his fantasies...
...Monday, April 27, the Harvard Film Archive will screen “Yellow Earth” with an introduction by Professor Eugene Y. Wang of Harvard’s East Asian Art History Program. Wang reveals that beneath an essentially “thin narrative” of rural Chinese peasants in 1939, there lies a rich history and an undercurrent of deep psychological introspection...
...film’s sensitive curiosity about this divide is reflected in the complex dualities depicted on screen. The yellow earth is the farmers’ sole mode of sustenance, yet simultaneously it is an oppressive, arid land that binds them to scarcity and poverty. Likewise, the Yellow River symbolizes life and nourishment, but it also eliminates life—when Cuiqiao tries to escape her village by swimming across the river, her singing abruptly ends...
...April 24 arts article "China's 'Yellow Earth' to screen at Brattle" incorrectly stated both the location of the screening and the provenance of the film to be shown. The screening of "Yellow Earth" is set to take place at the Harvard Film Archive, not the Brattle Theatre, on Monday, April 27 at 7 p.m. In addition, the film to be screened did, in fact, come from China, not Europe, as the article states...
...monologue punctuated by film clips, with Tyson narrating his entire life, including the blow-by-blow commentary of his fight footage. Since his first film as screenwriter, The Gambler in 1974, and Fingers, his 1978 debut as writer-director, Toback has put churning, charismatic self-destructive characters on the screen. (He got an Oscar nomination for the life story of another scoundrel, Bugsy Siegel, in the 1991 Bugsy.) Toback has always been fascinated by the machismo of professional athletes; he wrote a tell-all memoir of his years spent with football-star-turned-actor Jim Brown. In Tyson...