Steamy Times Come to Chinese Films
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The frank approach to sex in Zhang Yimou's "House of Flying Daggers" is part of a significant, if subtle change brewing in Chinese film.
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Nine movies are in contention for the foreign-language Academy Award.
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Action thrillers seem to be ruling the roost in Hollywood these days with &#39;Hero&#39;, a Chinese film that raked in 17.8 million dollars to top the charts last week.
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Kung-fu crazy Quentin Tarantino&#39;s next kicking film will need subtitles - unless you&#39;re a dab hand at Chinese. The bonkers-but-brilliant film director is bigging-up his love of 70s martial arts flicks by filming the whole shebang in Mandarin.
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From China, courtey of Quentin Tarantino, comes a colorful martial-arts spectacle starring three very cool actors. By Robert Horton.
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Jia Zhang-ke's film of life in an amusement park is a quietly despairing vision of contemporary China with an almost ethnographic attention to detail.
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The Chinese movie "Still Life," a surprise entry set against the backdrop of China's gigantic Three Gorges Dam project, on Saturday won this year's Golden Lion &#151; the top award at the Venice Film Festival. Helen Mirren and Ben Affleck took the top acting awards.
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Jet Li's martial arts flick makes it big.
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The Chinese movie "Sanxia Haoren," or "Still Life," on Saturday took this year's Golden Lion, the top award at the Venice Film Festival.
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TORONTO - A few years back, Zhang Yimou was a bit miffed that fellow filmmaker Ang Lee was faster on the draw in elevating the martial-arts epic to serious cinema. But now that Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has broken the genre into the mainstream among Western audiences, Zhang is happy to follow his lead...
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COM Zhang Yimou channels Akira Kurosawa in Hero, which is even more visually stunning than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Like Kurosawa&#39;s Ran, it features huge armies with
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After the recent tumult in the Chinese market, some rapidly growing companies look even more attractive.
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A wave of musical talent has begun flowing out of China in recent years, and Hong Xu, is among the elite of those performers.
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A medium breaks the bonds of time and expectation to find its inner razzle-dazzle.
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While audiences half way across the  world shower Chinese arthouse cinema with adulation and awards,  finding viewers at home can seem much harder.
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BEIJING -- The hottest movie in China is not a blockbuster. In fact, critics consider it a dud and few people have seen it. But ''Life Translated&quot; is burning up Internet chat rooms and turning its 25-year-old filmmaker into a household name.
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A mighty wind blows through Yimou Zhang&#39;s martial arts epic &quot;Hero,&quot; filling the air with dust, ruffling the curtains, setting the candle flames asputter, and blissfully sending Maggie Cheung&#39;s raven hair afly in the sunlight.