To Live

...the Beijing Olympics last year. Zhang, whose credits also include "To Live," "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers," last shot the imperial court drama "Curse of the Golden Flower," which was released in 2006. "Blood Simple" is about a Texas...

In this article: Zhang Yimou, Blood Simple, Stephen Chow, Beijing Olympics, Coen brothers, Raise the Red Lantern, China, Hong Kong, and Sundance Film Festival

...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 banned in China for many years. He has returned...

In this article: Zhang Yimou, Turandot, Beijing, China, Forbidden City, Sandwich, Sydney Symphony, and Carmen

...Lion for Best Picture at the 1992 Venice International Film Festival. Subsequently, Zhang directed To Live '', an epic film based on an acclaimed novel by Yu Hua . ''To Live highlighted the resilience of the ordinary Chinese people,...

In this article: Zhang Yimou, Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Raise the Red Lantern, Hero, Ju Dou, Zhang Jigang, China, Red Sorghum, and Academy Awards

...by its own criteria at least, has delivered. As the hero of To Live, a 1994 film by the director Zhang Yimou, promises his son and later his grandson, life has indeed got better for most Chinese. The story of To Live, and indeed the life of...

In this article: China, Zhang Yimou, Deng Xiaoping, The Communist Party, Beijing, Communism, Collectivism, Oscar, and Great Leap Forward

...bed the competition judges. 400 Years Of Change In 40 Years Yu charted such political madness in an earlier book, To Live, which was made into a film by Zhang Yimou. Yu compares the abrupt changes in China to the difference between...

In this article: Yu Hua, People's Republic of China, Li Bai, Capitalism, and Breast implant

...characters. Gong, best known for her collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou in films like "Red Sorghum," "Raise the Red Lantern" and "To Live," has shot a series of English-language movies lately. She portrayed a...

In this article: Gong Li, Hollywood, Miami Vice, Hong Kong, Hannibal Lecter, Zhang Yimou, Curse of the Golden Flower, Young Hannibal, and Raise the Red Lantern

...rights pre-sold. The film was banned in Mainland China by the Chinese State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television due to its critical portrayal of various policies and campaigns of the Communist government. Zhang Yimou was also...

In this article: Mantou, Reactionary, Yu Hua, Zhang Yimou, and Chinese Communist Party