News Links - 10/31/07

[dleedlee]

Great silent movie finally gets a score
Ruan Lingyu's Little Toys
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article ... 336381.htm

Golden Rooster Awards released
http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpr ... 0745.shtml

Vancouver's Asian film fest examines many themes
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news ... 3acff49187

"Red Mansions" Remake Finally Starts, Cast Undecided
Li Shaohong takes over directing responsibilities, Tim Yip art director

http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/10/31/1221@289643.htm

My DNA Says I Love You! (Taiwan - China) review
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117935 ... id=31&cs=1

"Laundry Warrior" to battle on New Zealand soil
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/4832/1/

Miike flies high at Japan box office with "Crows"
His biggest hit yet with gangbanger epic
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/4837/1/

Sony readies "Lock and Roll" time
All-girl Japanese band coming to America
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/4841/1/

'Survivor's' China is not much like the real country
http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archive ... 10207y.htm

Carina Lau in TV Commercial
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/10/31/1221@289550.htm

Celebs Pace Wu, Anne Shizuka Promote Pink Ribbon Campaign
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/10/30/1261@289341.htm

Breathing New Life into 600-Year-Old Opera
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 70,00.html



Happy Halloween!

[Brian Thibodeau]

Reel Asian Film Festival - Toronto, Nov. 14-18
http://www.reelasian.com/schedule.php

Nice selection this year, and the fest opens with Justin Lin's FINISHING THE GAME:
http://www.reelasian.com/film-preview.php?film_id=200
(includes trailer with a killer final line...and Ron Jeremy! )


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[Brian Thibodeau]

"Only forty years later, the Yang Ban Xi shows are a bizarre memento of a decade of cultural terror."

Yang Ban Xi: The 8 Model Works (DVD review)
http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s2427yang.html

Photo montages show the mass executions during the Cultural Revolution; in the meantime, literally the only public theater art allowed were the Yang Bang Xi Revolutionary Model Works. They dominated movie screens until the entire nation knew the words to all the songs. Some interviewees remember seeing the films projected on giant outdoor screens.

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[dleedlee]

"Only forty years later, the Yang Ban Xi shows are a bizarre memento of a decade of cultural terror."

Yang Ban Xi: The 8 Model Works (DVD review)
http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s2427yang.html

Photo montages show the mass executions during the Cultural Revolution; in the meantime, literally the only public theater art allowed were the Yang Bang Xi Revolutionary Model Works. They dominated movie screens until the entire nation knew the words to all the songs. Some interviewees remember seeing the films projected on giant outdoor screens.

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Thanks for pointing this out, Brian. It looks pretty interesting.
I missed getting the subbed reissue a few years back of The East is Red before it went OOP.

I still shudder when I remember all the newspaper photos and news clips of those poor souls wearing their dunce caps and denunciation placards being marched down the streets with their hands tied behind their backs.

[Brian Thibodeau]

I still shudder when I remember all the newspaper photos and news clips of those poor souls wearing their dunce caps and denunciation placards being marched down the streets with their hands tied behind their backs.

. . . while those in power lived in comparative (and probably well-hidden) luxury. You could make a million documentaries about those ten years and still not tell all the tales, but hopefully we'll see more like this one in the years to come as China continues its new long march to where it should have been decades ago.

[dleedlee]

There's a film on YouTube called Though I Am Gone that I've downloaded but haven't watched yet. It played at Vancouver's International Film Festival recently:

This is a documentary about the first female principal beaten to death by the Red Guards in the beginning of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China.

1st of 10 parts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm1Fe1BjYyI

[Brian Thibodeau]

Thanks for the link. I'll bookmark those for future viewing.


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