News Links - 12/9/06



Director Zhang Jianrui, actor Fan Wei - The Road

Little Fatty
Chinese Film The Road Wins Top Prize in Cairo
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2006/12/09/271@172524.htm
John Woo says new epic frustrated by inability to film at Yangtze River
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?fi ... ec=apworld
Film festivals 'write history' of Asian cinema
The Chinese films that play at film festivals in Asia tend to follow a European art house aesthetic: the acceptable face of Asian cinema as defined by European festivals
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_ ... 76992.html
San Francisco's 4 Star owners win legal fight, plan to renovate, reopen neighborhood theater
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f ... ype=movies
Spring Festival Gala team invites hot actors for 2007
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006- ... 459368.htm
Letters From Iwo Jima
Watanabe: 'Fortunate' to review war
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/ar ... Y15001.htm
'Letters,' unlike its companion film 'Flags,' avoids a critique of history
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/ar ... Y15003.htm
The Bund magazine People of The Year 2006
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2006/12/09/271@172453.htm
Music Queen Song Zuying Receives Grammy Nomination
http://english.cri.cn/3166/2006/12/09/164@172510.htm
Introducing China's Most Beautiful Gay Couple
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2006/12/09/271@172481.htm
Investigators accused of faking results of Taiwan's election shooting probe
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/06/ ... 29211.html