Word: underground
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...streak, in his latest movie, House of Flying Daggers, which is scheduled for release this summer. Shot on a budget of about $20 million, Daggers is set in China's Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-906) and follows the loves, loyalties and betrayals between imperial rulers and members of an underground martial-arts society. Expectations are high: Zhang's 2002 film Hero earned an Oscar nomination and broke mainland box-office records for a Chinese movie by raking in some $27 million. Daggers reunites several key players in that winning team: producer Bill Kong (who was also behind Crouching Tiger, Hidden...
...cutting deeply enough. But any director in China knows in their heart how far they can go and how much they can say. If anyone tells you that they always say what they want to say or film what they want to film, it's a lie. Even underground movies have a limit - they know where they have to stop. I hope in the future we have more freedom and artists are given more space. But the question now isn't whether you're good at balancing things: it's a must. It's a reality you have to face...
Concerned, I called a convenient authority on feminism—my mother, who as a young woman interned for Bella Abzug, and whom I suspect of having once been a radical. (I was once convinced that she was an ex-member of the Weather Underground very effectively disguised as a suburban matron, due to her liberal leanings and a suspicious lack of anecdotes about her past.) Anyway, she confirmed that replacing “girl” with “woman” had once been a central concern of feminists...
Since the dissolution of the Elephant 6 Collective, it seems that the players involved have been content to leave behind the sound that made the group so popular in the musical underground: bombastic, psychedelic arrangements condensed into indie-pop gems, with alternating absurdity and striking poignancy. Athens, Ga.’s Elf Power continue to depart from this sound on their new release, an album striking mostly for its choice of Athenian forebears—abandoning the region’s mid-90s psychedelic boom, here the Elves seem to be doing their best R.E.M. The album...
...Bacon '07 and Lisa B. Publishin '07, ended up in Cabot with her. Clad in their matching Cabot T-shirts, the threesome hitched a ride on the shuttle to the Cabot welcome event. Peter and Lisa went back to Holworthy together while Amie passed out in the Cabot Underground...