Zhang Yimou

Making A Portrait With 750 Socks

Posted 04.19.2012

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Hong Yi, who often goes by Red, is a Shanghai-based artist who works with materials more often found in a dirty apartment than an art studio. We ar...

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25 Foreign Films Even Subtitle Haters Should See

John Farr | Posted 11.25.2011

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Reading subtitles is a lot like riding a bicycle. Practice not only makes perfect, soon enough it's second nature so you don't even notice you're doing it. This particularly holds true when you're watching something great.

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Rebellious Chinese Director: Sell Out?

nytimes.com | EDWARD WONG | Posted 10.16.2011

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BEIJING -- The documentary film "Petition" by Zhao Liang is considered by many of its viewers to be a fearless work of art. Shot over 12 years, it sho...

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Christian Bale In Chinese Sex Worker Film

AP | MIN LEE | Posted 08.23.2011

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HONG KONG — He's tackled rural drama, kung fu choreography and period epic over a 23-year career that has made him Chinese cinema's top names. B...

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On The Imprisonment of Iranian Filmmakers: A Moral Option For Iran and Any Government Presuming to Silence Its Artists

Michael Vazquez | Posted 05.25.2011

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I've asked film curator Milos Stehlik, of Chicago's Facets.org to write a guest essay in the earnest service of furnishing a dually historical and mor...

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HuffPost Review: A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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It seems like a weirdly cross-cultural idea: Chinese master Zhang Yimou does a remake of the Coen brothers' debut film, Blood Simple. If the film lacks the dryly mordant Coen wit, it offers other pleasures -- but also some problems.

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Thoughts on Kitsch and Culture after Mao

Julian Baird Gewirtz | Posted 05.25.2011

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We are left with a picture of a China that is full of contradictions and conflicting trends, of liberalizing desire to become an open society mixed with a strong strain of conservative attachment, of kitsch and real splendor existing side-by-side.

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The International Impact of China's Olympic Moment

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Beijing Games should be seen as a part of an ongoing, ambitious, and so far partially successful re-branding effort on the part of the Chinese Communist Party.

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China's Ode to Legerdemain

Howard W. French | Posted 05.25.2011

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Embellishing the face of China, and thereby enhancing the prestige of its rulers, required something better than reality, a painstakingly idealized hyper-real, and if that required trickery or deception, so be it.

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Hook, Line, and Sinker: NBC Swallows Opening Ceremonies Propaganda

Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The conscious decision to create a narrative that rewrites both Chinese history and reality is alarming -- but the fact that the NBC commentators unquestioningly went along with it is downright appalling.

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From Beijing: The Opening Extravaganza -- Conceptual and Political Art; No Chinatown Dragons

Jack Hidary | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is an Olympics which needed an opening ceremony strong enough to match the politically-charged atmosphere surrounding the choice of China.

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