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...East Palace West Palace (1996) plays at the Harvard Film Archive November 12th and 13th at 9pm. Zhang Yuan won the Silver Omb for best direction and best screenplay for East Palace West Palace at the 1996 Mar del Plata Film Festival...
Watching 36 year-old Zhang Yuan's films is like walking through a Rorscharchian gallery--viewers' reactions reveal not only their psychological bias and perspective on society, but also the goal of Zhang's underlying artistic project. Unlike the majority of Chinese filmmakers today who make appeasingly jovial movies, Zhang sees his work as social stimuli. It is telling that he prefers to be called an "artist" rather than a "filmmaker...
...From this movement emerged the visually stunning Yellow Earth, Red Sorghum, and Raise the Red Lantern. Zhang Yuan's films embody a directional shift in Chinese film. Instead of turning backward in time to locate and problematize the Chinese experience, Zhang turns inward. His films capture modern psychological tales rather than distanced histories. However, the Fifth Generations' affinity for setting their films in the pre-Revolutionary past was more than stylistic choice-it was practical necessity. State monopoly funding of films and a wary censorship board forced any critique of the regime to be shrouded in allegory. Zhang bypassed...
From November 2-13, the Harvard Film Archive is screening four films by acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yuan, one of the leaders of the freshest talents of what critics term the "6th Generation Directors." The series will include Seventeen Years, for which he won the award for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. Zhang will be in attendance at a special screening of Seventeen Years Friday at 8:00 p.m. Zhang would like extend his invitations to all interested students...
...Translator: The goal is to expose the American audience to the quality works by Chinese directors and foreign directors in general, which is the goal of the Harvard Film Archive. Because of the prevalence of Hollywood, foreign directors like Zhang Yuan are not as widely known here as they are in Europe...