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News Links - 5/11/06

Postby dleedlee » Thu May 11, 2006 11:26 am

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The Unforgiven in Un Certain Regard
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/349/2006/05/11/60@87601.htm

The Promise's film crew criticised for harming environment
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK271999.htm
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/349/2006/05/11/60@87400.htm

Lin Chiling slammed for ancient beauty role
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006- ... 532253.htm

Movie Review: Loach is Fish Too
http://www.shanghaiist.com/archives/200 ... ach_is.php

Film about abductee Megumi Yokota wins 4th award in U.S.
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060510/kyodo/d8hgke48f.html

Rock singer Dou Wei storms newspaper office, sets fire to car
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006- ... 533928.htm


Photos: Vivian Chow glitters at party
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006- ... 533987.htm

Hong Kong authorities arrest teenager who set up music download Web site
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/i_latestdetail.asp?id=38162

Chan warns children of bird flu
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4760651.stm

Chinese music festival rocks in a hard place
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jht ... aturesNews

China's newest shopping craze: 'team buying'
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0511/p01s01-woap.html

Workers want pay from Golden Dragon
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... ss.bayarea


Bordwell sees old Hollywood in new flicks
http://www.madison.com/tct/features/ind ... 28&ntpid=1
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Postby Brian Thibodeau » Thu May 11, 2006 3:47 pm

Good article on David Bordwell in that last link above.

This bit illustrates what sets Bordwell apart from a great many contemporary film scholars:

Bordwell's book is a logical outgrowth out of the decades of film scholarship that he has done at the university, which since the 1970s has been known for analyzing the business of filmmaking in tandem with the art. Perhaps that's why Bordwell has been getting so much acclaim from people in the industry, as he articulates the framework that filmmakers operate within, perhaps unaware that there is a framework.

"What we try and do, Kristin and I and a few other scholars, is to try to make explicit these implicit rules that people have been working with all these years," Bordwell says. "What I sometimes say is that I want to know their secrets. Even the secrets that they don't know they know."


That last paragraph describes Bordwell's book Planet Hong Kong to a tee. If there was only one book I had to recommend to anyone with a serious, growing interest in Hong Kong cinema, it would likely be that one, and largely for his ability to reveal the "rules" Hong Kong filmmakers themselves implicitly follow, often without being able to define them.
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