Word: sorghum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...From this movement emerged the visually stunning Yellow Earth, Red Sorghum, and Raise the Red Lantern. Zhang Yuan's films embody a directional shift in Chinese film. Instead of turning backward in time to locate and problematize the Chinese experience, Zhang turns inward. His films capture modern psychological tales rather than distanced histories. However, the Fifth Generations' affinity for setting their films in the pre-Revolutionary past was more than stylistic choice-it was practical necessity. State monopoly funding of films and a wary censorship board forced any critique of the regime to be shrouded in allegory. Zhang bypassed...
...monopolizes the country's cotton production, is state owned, it is decentralizing, transforming a money-losing dinosaur into an engine for local development. Putting cotton plants into rotation with cereal crops, CMDT not only grows higher-quality cotton but also keeps farmers producing less pricey but essential maize, millet, sorghum and rice. Says Chaka Berte, a CMDT management director: "The farmers are taking their cotton money and diversifying. Good for them. Good for Mali...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., HarvardSquare. 876-6837. "Raise the Red Lantern" at 3:30and 7:40 p.m. and "Red Sorghum" at 5:50 and 10p.m. on Thursday, March 23. "An Evening withTroma" on Friday, March 24 at 7:15 p.m. "Red" at5:15 and 10 p.m. on Friday, March 24 and at 2, 4,6, 8 and 10 p.m. on Saturday, March 25. "EasyRider" at 3:30 and 7:40 p.m. and "Midnight Cowboy"at 5:25 and 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 26. "TheLost Weekend" at 3:30 and 7:40 p.m. on Monday,March...
Zhang Yimou has come a long what since working as cinematographer for Chen Kaige. The director of such films as "Red Sorghum" and "Raise the Red Lantern," Yimou is only now starting to garner the praise and attention he has long deserved. He wins awards at Cannes almost as often as he is banned by the Chinese Government--it's becoming a tradition...
Zhang Yimou is prone to relying on visual gimmicks. Whether it was the wine in "Red Sorghum", the lanterns in "Raise the Red Lantern" or the dyed fabric in "Ju Dou," his cinematic crutch is obvious and sometimes self-defeating--it forces the viewer into visual overload. "To Live" is a happy exception...