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Ways of looking at Curse of the Golden Flower

A taxonomy of Chinese film critic responses to Zhang Yimou’s new movie, as created by Raymond Zhou (周黎明). Also, reviews by Dou Jiangming (钭江明) and Li Yi (李翼).

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Who’s doing the censoring, exactly?

Lou Ye gets banned from filmmaking, and workers in a Beijing film processing plant confiscate copies of a movie they think is too sexy.

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One country, two versions

CEPA eases co-productions between the mainland and Hong Kong, but does it undermine creativity?

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Sanlian Life Weekly cover girl: Niu Niu, with her dodgy movie

Niu Niu, daughter of an official, makes a movie and forces people to see it, Sanlian reports.

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People: Tina Liu

Tina Liu is Hong Kong’s most prominent image stylist, but her mercurial career has involved her in almost every aspect of Hong Kong’s media world.

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People: Chen Daming, director

Chen’s own life story could be rich material for a feature film. After being rusticated from the Henan Opera School, he was forced to move away from Kaifeng to look for work. The Film Academy is the most prestigious film school in China, counting the directors Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige among its alumni, and competition for place to study there is fierce. Chen Daming came to Beijing for an audition, and was accepted after three auditions.

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People: Chen Guanzhong (aka Chan Koonchung)

John Koon-chung Chan profiled; He is one of the most experienced players in Chinese media, having founded magazines, written and produced feature films and TV dramas, started and run a satellite TV station, and written novels, collections of essays and even a treatise on Marxist literary criticism.

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