"Golden Flower," "The Banquet" Bid for Oscars
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/0 ... 145217.htm

Comedy Star Gives Chinese Audiences "A Hope" ? (Yangtze River VII)
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/0 ... 145320.htm

'Jackie can't be evil'
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story ... 67,00.html
Jackie Chan now has a diaper-disaster movie to his name
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/ ... 20/1/.html

Jay Chou changes slurred singing style for new Zhang Yimou movie
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/ ... _Yimou.php

Wong Kar Wai, Leave the 'Lady' alone
http://www2.townonline.com/cambridge/ar ... eid=583878

Yasmin Ahmad: Confronting prejudice head-on
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailfea ... W01&irec=1

Actor-director Michael Hui gains freedom from fraternity
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/ ... 12/1/.html

ASIAN POP The Middle (Aged) Kingdom
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 9/apop.DTL

Chinese director Feng Xiaogang's new movie
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?fi ... ec=apworld

RON SMOORENBURG STORY - Stunt Man
http://www.pattayadailynews.com/shownew ... 0000001479

Review: THROW DOWN
http://filmjournal.com/filmjournal/revi ... 1115&imw=Y

UW Cinematheque curator Tom Yoshikami talks film
http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/artic ... ticle=4344

Cui Jian's Show Cancelled for "security reasons"
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/0 ... 145370.htm

Jay Chou Shoots MV with Stuffed Animals
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/0 ... 145337.htm

Wong Kar Wai, Leave the 'Lady' alone
http://www2.townonline.com/cambridge/ar ... eid=583878

From the article

I don't even know where to begin

He should have left it at that.

Yes, it seems like a strange comment to make. A quick perusal of his blog site and he strikes me as an intelligent fellow. So one must guess that Lady From Shanghai is a personal sacred cow of his.


In other news:


Free movies for Beijing residents in next two months
http://english.people.com.cn/200609/29/ ... 07388.html

"We persuaded the producers that the screenings were for the public interest and they agreed," Kang said.

Statistics from the Beijing Statistics Department show the average annual income of working Beijing residents was 32,808 yuan (4,101 U.S. dollars). The average film ticket is 50 yuan (6.25 U.S. dollars), a luxury for most low-income people.

Well that would certainly explain the popularity of bootlegs, then.

Bootlegging returns with Superman sequel
http://news.com.com/Bootlegging+returns ... 21137.html
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/ne ... es-entnews


The [legit] Mandarin-language DVDs cost more than what counterfeit DVDs typically sell for. The single-disc "Superman Returns" costs about $1.75 (14 yuan), while the two-disc special edition is available for $2.75.

A pirated boxed DVD copy of "Superman Returns," with a crisp picture and audio and subtitles in Mandarin and English, was purchased by a reporter Thursday for $1.25 from a brightly lit and well-organized shop opening onto a popular Beijing bar street frequented by expatriates and just around the corner from a police station.

Chinese artist wants to experience a lion's caged life
http://english.people.com.cn/200609/29/ ... 07595.html
Take this, David Blaine.
"I felt terrible the whole afternoon after eating the raw beef, " Ye Fu wrote in his diary. "My limbs feel weak and I want to puke... Watching the lions under my cage fighting each other, I feel extremely depressed..."