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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...
Aden Abdulrahman Mohammed believed the worst was over when the U.S. Marines arrived a year ago in his village just north of Baidoa. He had managed to reap a good harvest of sorghum, set up a water pump and construct a small chicken farm. Then suddenly in November, the bad old days returned. A dispute about two stolen camels between rival subclans quickly escalated into a hit-and-run war. When the shooting stopped, 15 villages, including Asha Farto, lay in smoking ruins. All the sorghum stored by the farmers had been looted or torched, and when the seasonal rains...
Moreover, there are positive role models for Asian men. In traditional Chinese thinking, learning and negotiation were the preferred paths to true manhood. More modern roles can be found in characters like "My Grandfather" in Red Sorghum or Wittman Ah Sing in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey and in the work of writers like David Mura, Gus Lee and David Wong Louie. They are not always the heroes we would like them to be, but they are appealing, active, sexual, powerful people...