Red Sorghum

...new booming cinema emerging across Asia. Among the movies from Asia to be screened in the retrospective are Zhang Yimou's Hong gaoliang (Red Sorghum) which won the festival's coveted Golden Bear in 1988. Hong gaoliang became the first film...

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...heaven at the close of the film. Like Zhang's later film, The Road Home '' (1999), ''Red Sorghum is narrated by the main characters' grandson, but Red Sorghum lacks the flashback framing device of The Road Home (the viewer never sees the...

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...is the second feature directed by Chinese actor Jiang Wen, who's probably best known in the U.S. as one of the stars of Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum. It played in Competition at Cannes in 2000, a couple of years before I started attending, and...

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...how to get to Brooklyn. The driver throws them out of his cab. In Chinatown, actor-director Wen Jiang, who co-starred with Gong Li in Red Sorghum and is often called "the Robert De Niro of China," tells the tale of a scruffy slacker pickpocket...

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...fashionable elements," Zhang says in publicity for the show. While the director claims to eschew politics, his early films such as To Live, Red Sorghum and Raise the Red Lantern - critical of the country and of heavy-handed authority - were...

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...star to return to China is director Zhang Yimou, who rose to fame through a series of searing portraits of the country such as Red Sorghum and Raise the Red Lantern. Zhang last year directed the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics...

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...comedian Xiao Shenyang and actress Yan Ni "" was currently filming in Beijing and will be released in December. Zhang"s credits include "Raise the Red Lantern," "Red Sorghum," "To Live," "Ju Dou," "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers."

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...Flower," is also scheduled to direct a gala celebrating the 60th anniversary of communist China on Oct. 1. Zhang's credits also include "Raise the Red Lantern," "Red Sorghum," "To Live," "Ju Dou," "Hero" and the "House of Flying Daggers."

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Chinese film Red Sorghum is DVD of the week Last Updated: 11:55AM GMT 15 Jan 2009 When it won the Golden Bear at the 1988 Berlin Film Festival, Red Sorghum brought the world's attention to two extraordinary talents who, in the years...

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...Gong Li made moviegoing an extraordinary pleasure. Her first big film to reach the West came in 1987, with "Red Sorghum," where she played the dynamic widow of a winery owner trying to make it in rural China in the late 1930s until the...

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