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...Perfect Female Figure,” focused on the history of the corset. Liu’s family drove from Pittsburgh, Pa., to be with her as she received this honor. “I am very proud of Elise for winning this award,” Helen Wang, Elise’s mother, said. “I am pleased that she got the opportunity to work over the summer in a field she’s interested in,” she said. Liu will use the money from the award to work this summer at the Legal...
...characters walk in and out of the frame. However, this lack of sophistication serves also to enhance the bare setting and the serious reflection the filmmakers had in mind. “Every kind of criticism leveled against the film is precisely its strength in retrospect,” Wang says...
...impact of rural life on China’s cultural consciousness is dwindling. “The post-Zhang Yimou generation is much better equipped to show the dynamics of the urban texture, the urban lifestyle. They are very much in sync with global culture,” Wang says. “But everything comes with a price. That kind of larger cultural vision seems to have been lost...
...Wang adds that although both Chen and Zhang later became celebrity directors on their own—Zhang directed “Raise the Red Lantern” and “House of Flying Daggers,” among others—“Yellow Earth” holds a special place in Chinese cinematic and cultural history. “They never recaptured the magic and power of this mid-1980s collaboration,” he says...
...caught up with contemporary Chinese art and film that the 1980s seem so distant,” Wang says. “I want to resurrect this era because in terms of what Chinese youngsters remember, it is a distant past...