Chen Kaige

...stars, many in cameo roles as political figures who played their part in history. Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Zhang Ziyi and film-maker Chen Kaige all feature in small roles. Even John Woo, director of Hollywood action blockbusters such as Broken...

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...also benefited from the appearance of most of China's top film stars, many in bit parts, including Jackie Chan, Jet Li, director Chen Kaige and Zhang Ziyi. "Founding" will face its first challenges from non-domestic films when Hong Kong-...

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...was also helped by the appearance of most of China's top film stars, many in bit parts, including Jackie Chan, Jet Li, director Chen Kaige and Zhang Ziyi. "Founding" will get its first non-domestic challenges when Hong Kong and Los...

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...story about the heroics of a People's Liberation Army unit during the Chinese civil war in the 1940s shared the top prize with Chen Kaige's profile of late Peking Opera star Mei Lanfang, "Forever Enthralled." Best actor went to Wu Gang,...

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...name, Pedro Almodovar and his "Broken Embraces," in favor of Trueba's "The Dancer and the Thief." China's veteran filmmaker Chen Kaige is contending again for "Forever Enthralled" (the last film to be shown on Jan. 16), and Joon-Ho Bong has...

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...which includes Bong Joon-ho's "Mother" (pictured) from Korea, as well as films by Germany's Michael Haneke ("The White Ribbon), China's Chen Kaige ("Forever Enthralled") and Italy's Giuseppe Tornatore ("Baaria"), was announced today by...

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..."I Killed My Mother," Xavier Dolan. </p><p>Chile, "Dawson, Isla 10," Miguel Littin. </p><p>China, "Forever Enthralled," Chen Kaige. </p><p>Colombia, "The Wind Journeys," Ciro Guerra. </p><p>Croatia, "Donkey," Antonio Nuic.

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"My biggest revelation was that I could live without making movies." </p><p>Along with fellow Chinese directors Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, Tian is a member of modern Chinese cinema's most famous graduating class. The trio were among the...

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...the appointment of the Chinese director, who is loosely aligned with the "fifth generation" of great Chinese directors including Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou but is better known as a Chinese establishment figure. His latest film, The Founding...

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...big stars had acquired foreign passports and were therefore unfit to appear in a patriotic movie. "Farewell My Concubine" director Chen Kaige, who has a walk-on as an enemy general, was said to be a U.S. citizen and Li a Singaporean. Chen...

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