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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I don't know how many moons orbit Cameron's fantasy planet Pandora, but I'm just going to assume they're currently all heading for alignment. Screen Daily tells us that Avatar's two-months away release in China has caused no less than four of its own would-be blockbusters to hide from the giant shadow the blue cat-people will inevitably cast when they debut there January 1st. Zhang Yimou's remake...
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Examiner (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Zhang Yimou says his first movie in three years has shades of comedian Stephen Chow's outlandish humor and marks the first time the "Raise the Red Lantern" director shot in digital format.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Zhang Yimou says his first movie in three years has shades of comedian Stephen Chow's outlandish humor and marks the first time the "Raise the Red Lantern" director shot in digital format.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Zhang Yimou says his first movie in three years has shades of comedian Stephen Chow's outlandish humor and marks the first time the "Raise the Red Lantern" director shot in digital format.
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CinemaSpy (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Zhang Yimou promises some comedy in his remake of Blood Simple , which will hit theaters in China on December 11. In an interview with the Chinese web portal Sina.com, subsequently translated by the Associated Press, the director of Hero and House of Flying Daggers described his film as starting off as a comedy, then gradually morphing into a thriller. "The audience is watching the movie happily,...
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Musings (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
The Road Home, Zhang Yimou, director, 2000, 1 hour 29 minutes, Chinese with English subscripts I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, yet continue to ponder it’s meaning. The film begins in black and white. A son has been called back to his childhood village upon his father’s death and is driven across the snowy fields of northern China (interestingly, I’m pretty sure they’re driving...
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FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
This trailer is only for hardcore fans of Zhang Yimou ( Hero , House of Flying Daggers ) and those who don't need any English subtitles! Twitch has dug up the first trailer for Zhang Yimou's Amazing Tales: Three Guns , his remake of the Coen Brothers' first film Blood Simple . It may not have subtitles yet, but it looks quite fun anyway. And its got everything you'd expect from a Coen Brothers remake...
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Living in Cinema (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Twitch has the first trailer I’ve seen of Amazing Tales: Three Guns, Zhang Yimou’s adaptation of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Blood Simple. The dialogue isn’t subtitled (some of the credits are given an English voice over), but you can get a pretty good idea of the style and tone of the film. Think blackly comic and [...]
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Twitch (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
We recently mentioned Zhang Yimou's latest adaptation of Blood Simple , 三枪拍案惊奇 (Amazing Tales: Three Guns) . The film stars Sun Honglei and Yan Ni of the lovely 斗牛 (Cow) , and the peculiarity here was that one half of the film would be a comedy, the second a thriller. Not exactly an easy feat to pull off organically within the same film, but...
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Danwei (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Hefei Evening Post October 29, 2009 Today's Hefei Evening News features an image of the glittering high-rises that will go up in place of a declining commercial district. The urban renewal project will displace 2,500 households, but they'll be able to move back eventually: "National Day two years from now will be the day for displaced households to move back home," said Hu Mingwen, vice-secretary...
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Twitch (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Say what you will about the inevitable "change of heart" China's fifth generation has gone through over the last decade or so, but one of the most fascinating aspects of current Mainland cinema is exactly how some of those Beijing Film Academy graduates are approaching what is at the center of their transformation, the 主旋律 (main melody, and you know which "melody"...
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What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
First, some thanks are due. Thank you to AS of NM for the cope of To Live: A Novel by Yu Hua. This was made into a very powerful movie by the great Chinese director Zhang Yimou, starring Gong Li and You Ge. If you want to have a sense of the something of the Great Leap [...] Post from: WDTPRS PENJING REPORT and thanks… and coffee mug
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The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
China Feature Film Original Title: 红高粱 Director: Zhang Yimou Writers: Chen Jianyu, Zhu Wei, Mo Yan Cinematographer: Gu Changwei Composer: Zhao Jiping Cast: Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Ten Rujun, Ji Chun Hua, Jia Liu Told in the form of a man recounting a family legend, this visually sumptuous film - based on Mo Yan’s books, set in remote, provincial China in the ‘20s and ‘30s,...
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TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan will be honored with this year's Master of Cinema lifetime achievement award at the 58th Mannheim-Heidelberg film festival. Egoyan won Mannheim's Golden Ducat award for "Next of Kin" in 1984. He will accept the honor in person Nov. 6. Previous Master of Cinema winners include Aleksandr Sokurov, Wim Wenders, Raoul Ruiz, Theo Angelopoulos and Zhang Yimou.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
(Relaxnews) - This week's selection: China puts on Puccini for its 60th anniversary celebrations, Nobel Prize winners are revealed in Sweden and Norway, the winner of Britain's Man Booker prize for literature is announced, Asia's hottest new artists gather in Singapore, and more.
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