Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Along with the menu inset and many paintings, brochures and leaflets describing the Chinese occupation of Tibet and subsequent oppression of the Tibetan people are readily available...
SOMERVILLE, Mass.--Tibetan delicacies and political activism go hand-in-hand at Massachusetts' first and only Tibetan restaurant, the House of Tibet Kitchen in Davis Square...
...wheel has ended up confronting the great forces of the day--exile, global travel and, especially, the mass media; and a man from a culture known as the "Forbidden Kingdom" now faces machine guns on the one hand and Chinese discos around the Potala Palace on the other. While Tibet is eroded in its homeland, it threatens to be commodified--or turned into an exotic accessory--abroad...
...deluge, God's son betrayed and murdered and reborn. Ideal material for Martin Scorsese, as he proved in The Last Temptation of Christ, his mean-streets-of-Jerusalem story of a tormented Jesus. By contrast, Buddhist texts are static and serene, antidramatic. And the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet is the ultimate good fellow, not a goodfella. So what can Scorsese find to make his own in KUNDUN...
That turns out to be the wrong question. The director has come to this biography of "the Buddha of compassion, the wish-fulfilling jewel" as a pilgrim. He is in Tibet (actually Morocco) to explore, bend, learn, find new ways of seeing and showing the light. That makes Kundun his simplest and most experimental film...