Word: tian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went back to the remote reaches of her homeland--to the edge of Sichuan, near the Tibetan steppes--to make Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl. The film, based on Tian Yu, a 1995 novel by Chen's childhood friend Yan Geling, is about a naive urban teenager who, like more than 7 million other "educated youth" during the Cultural Revolution, is "sent down" to the countryside to be instructed by the heroic peasantry; instead she learns harsh lessons about the brutality of men in power. The authorities refused to give a permit to the project, so Chen shot without...
...rescued her friend with Tian Yu, a novel that stirred in Chen both a memory of the Cultural Revolution and a long-deferred desire to direct. Chen could have shot her film in the familiar cocoon of a movie studio. But to be faithful to Xiu Xiu's story meant filming it near Tibet. "The location was 13,000 ft. high," Chen says. "It was hard to breathe. We didn't take showers for a month. We were all sniffing each other. Lunch on the set was always late and cold. Or it wouldn't arrive...
Most hot political issues, in fact, are left to filmmakers inside China. Farewell My Concubine, Zhang's To Live, Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Blue Kite, Gu Rong's Unwelcome Lady and Jiang Wen's In the Heat of the Sun have boldly dramatized the fratricidal madness of the Cultural Revolution. The directors have paid for their bravery, finding their work censored or themselves unemployed. Gu submitted his film eight harrowing times before it was approved. Jiang tried distracting the on-the-set censor by casting him in Heat of the Sun. But he still had to fight for over...
...Chinese authorities, The Blue Kite was nothing more than an incendiary insult. They approved the script but when Tian diverged from it, refused to let him edit his film; it languished for a year and was completed abroad by others working from the director's screenplay and notes. The film was banned in China, and last month Tian and six other prominent directors were forbidden to make films in their homeland...
...Tian must feel kinship with the beleaguered brood in The Blue Kite. It is now the challenge of the world film community to see that he is not silenced because he told the truth...