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...have the Chinese allowed the film to be shown publicly on the mainland, though it has played to acclaim elsewhere in the Far East and in Europe. Suddenly, this spare melodrama acquired political significance. Zhang, 40, whose previous film, Red Sorghum, made him the brightest light of emerging Chinese cinema, became both an international cause celebre and a man without a local audience. "To get Ju Dou past the censors," Zhang says, "I have agreed to consider recutting some parts. But I never heard back from them...
...world of cinema owes a large debt to the Irish as well. Imagine some of the greatest films of our time without Peter O'Toole, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Harris or Anjelica Huston. Some of the film industry's most promising rising stars are Irish: 1990 Academy Award winner Brenda Fricker, director Jim Sheridan, and wunderkind Kenneth Branagh, touted as 'the next Olivier...
Raoni--Human Rights Cinema...
...Stone turned The Doors into a display of pop culture's wretched excess. "The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death," Morrison wrote when he was a student at the UCLA film school, and The Doors latches onto this fear in the first scene -- when five-year-old Jim sees a car wreck -- and rides the snake right to the end. In between come dozens of set pieces in which Morrison makes a spectacular, suicidal fool of himself: insulting his audience, trashing hotel rooms, dangling from 10th-story windows, engaging in a blood- sipping ritual with his witchy...
...Cinema...