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Yunnan Big Screen Film Festival

A review of the Yunnan Big Screen Film Festival 2007 in Kunming.

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Danwei Picks: 2007-12-7

Beijing Newspeak on Xinhua’s reporting on the PLA train to Tibet, A Modern Lei Feng on changes in Beijing, and a possible ban on foreign movies until May.

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‘Lust, Caution’ box office numbers in Beijing

SCREEN is an unofficial poll of audiences’ feedback on new released movie conducted by The Beijing News (新京报). They carried out an audiences’ poll about Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution (色戒) on its debut day (November 1) in a Beijing theatre. … Continue reading →

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Danwei FM: Interview with director of Soul Carriage

Guest contributer Erica Schlaikjer interviews Conrad Clark, director of Soul Carraige, which debuted September 25th.

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Google video search for China

Google has launched a a service that searches Chinese video sharing websites. Baidu already has a video sharing function. To compare the two services, you can see what they both return for Wang Xiaofeng (王小峰): Google, Baidu.

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No space for quality cinema

Imagethief writes about Han Sanping’s patriotic sentiments, Chang Ping blasts SARFT for leaving no room for good Chinese cinema, and Jet Li complains about his movies getting banned.

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Transformers and Wikipedia

The Chinese government works to keep out foreign flies. Examples from the film industry and the Internet.

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Tony Leung on Hong Kong’s last decade of film

Tony Leung (梁家辉) writes for Soho Xiaobao (SOHO小报).

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Serious, patriotic history, or giant robot battles?

Nanjing (南京) meets the Transformers (变形金刚).

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What’s wrong with Thirteen Princess Trees?

The movie Thirteen Princess Trees (十三棵泡桐) directed by Lu Yue (吕乐) is delayed for a second round of review by the China Film Bureau.

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