Tag Archives: Lou Ye

Why Feng Xiaogang shot such a lame Banquet

Posted on 2006-09-15 by Joel Martinsen

Feng Xiaogang’s ‘The Banquet’ gets the spoof treatment, SARFT criticizes Lou Ye’s aesthetic sensibility after banning him for five years, The Opposite End of China talks about progress in Xinjiang, and Wang Xiarou writes about bathhouses.

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Who’s doing the censoring, exactly?

Posted on 2006-09-04 by Joel Martinsen

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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Summer Palace rejected over aesthetic differences

Posted on 2006-05-17 by Joel Martinsen

Summer Palace (颐和园) by Lou Ye (娄烨) gets rejected by the censors over fuzzy images and poor sound quality.

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