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On Apr 25, 11:41 pm, septi... at (no spam) millenicom.com wrote:
Quote: In the same issue of Film Comment, Andrew Chan interviewed
Jia. He flattered Jia as the "leading Chinese filmmaker of [his]
generation." (Does anyone outside the art-house echo chamber
really believe that? Ask the millions of Chinese who bought tickets
to the pseudo-history pagentries of Zhang Yimou or Chen Kaige,
each more fascist than the last.)
For whatever reason I keep thinking that _Curse of the Golden
Flower_ was directed by Chen Kaige. No, that was another
by Zhang Yimou, and in terms of hammering home the point
that the individual should conform or come to a really bad end,
it may actually be worse than _Hero_. As a punishment, I'll
watch Chen's _The Promise_ if I figure out how to watcch it
without renting a DVD. I'm sure that's a decent film.
Quote: In fact
as the postscript to Annette Insdorf's _Double Lives, Second
Chances_ suggests, Kieslowski influenced a generation of
filmmakers,
most likely including what A.O. Scott dubbed the "Mexican new
wave."
And you can bet that Scott never mentioned Kieslowski either.
I'm actually not sure Scott ever used the "new wave" label on the
three Mexican directors in that distant Sunday NYT article. I may
have confused that with the Romanian new wave, which was a
term he used. In fact I won't swear to a statement that the piece
was authored by Scott, although that is fairly likely. |
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