Director: Zhang Ziyi easy to work with
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Zhang Ziyi didn't act like a prima donna on the set of a recent Chinese movie despite her newfound Hollywood fame, agreeing to shave her eyebrows for the role and even serving homemade soup to the crew, the film's director said.
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Zhang Yimou&#39;s &#39;&#39;House of Flying Daggers&quot; is, hands down, the most visually ravishing movie of the year. It has sequences of balletic martial arts action that can
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Xing Houyuan's advice to investors who seek her out is patient and practical: do due diligence on any potential partner, clarify its ties to the government, and make sure you control any joint venture.
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Looking for a formula for simplicity? Talk to the director of MIT Media Lab's Physical Language Workshop. He'll tell you to lose the obvious and put Steve Jobs in charge of your company. Wired News interview by Kim Zetter.
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Chinese martial arts film "Hero," starring Jet Li and Zhang Ziyi, opened at No. 1 at the North American box office this weekend. The flick, which was nominated for a foreign-language Oscar in 2003, grossed $17.8 million. Another new movie...
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Sony Pictures has quietly set up a joint venture with state-controlled China Film Group that will make digital television programmes and feature films.
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Sudeep's second directorial venture has pleasing visuals, melodious music and first-rate performances.
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By Mark Kellner, The Washington Times  Jan. 30--GRAPHICS SOFTWARE 'SMART' AND EASY: Every once in a while a  software program comes along that really grabs me.
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Zhang Yimou&#39;s &quot;Hero&quot; is beautiful and beguiling, a martial arts extravaganza defining the styles and lives of its fighters within Chinese tradition.
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Jeremy Bonderman is often overlooked. That's just the way he likes it.
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Zhang Yimou's new film is even more likeable than his previous hit Hero.
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The music of director Saran's new film sounds good.
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Ryan Malesevich points out a very simple, one-script solution to the common need for an image gallery for your website - SimpleView Gallery - that a friend of his has written up.   In my post that I wrote that I would be back for good this time, I mentioned that I was going to be working on a gallery script. My good friend Chris let me know that he also wrote a simple script viewer that works quite while. His script is SimpleView Gallery and it requires to modification for it, just upload the script to a directory that contains images and that's it.   He also mentions a small change he made to make it work with WordPress and it's automatic thumbnailing system (to hide those thumbnails).
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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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Being female and Chinese in the classical music business are helpful in getting yourself noticed, but careers are built â and this one is building fast â on substance. Xian Zhang has it.
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A Chinese actress who played Hollywood  movie star Zhang Ziyi&#039;s naked body double in &quot;The Banquet&quot;  wants her name in the movie&#039;s credits, state media reported on  Friday.
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I don't have an office, and I'm not running a conference, so I hope to hook up with someone, hopefully in the Bay Area, with either of these, to try some experimentation with FlickrFan. First a little background... My first glimpse of how wonderful news photography and screen savers are together was when I visited Andy Rhinehart at the Spartanburg Herald-Journal on 2/15/05. He had to go to a meeting, and left me in his office to check email, update my blog using my laptop. HIs PC of course went into screen saver mode, and started showing pictures of various political leaders in meetings around the world and sporting events, people digging out of snow storms. It didn't take long before my eyes were fixed on his screen.  Later I found out that everyone at AP does this too.  If you have a folder of new pictures on your LAN it makes a fantastic source of distraction. But it's different from video because it's silent. You can have a conversation about what's on the screen without interfering with it, or try to have a conversation about something else entirely.  This is something we noticed about podcasting too, that sometimes less is more. Because there is no video you can: 1. Use your eyes for something else, like driving, walking, doing housework. 2. Use your imagination in ways you can't with video, imagine what the speakers look like, where they are, who else is there. Once your imagination is activated in one direction it goes off in others.  So photocasting or picturecatching, whatever it ends up being called, has a similar "less is more" dimension.  So then I tried an experiment, I put an early version of FlickrFan on a 46-inch screen in my den, and when people would come over to visit I'd leave it running and we'd talk about whatever we were going to talk about, and I wasn't surprised to see the attention drift over to the TV. It's captivating. So I'd like to try it in two new venues to see what happens. 1. In a reception area in an office. Imagine one of the buildings at Microsoft. Or a doctors office, or the lobby of a VC firm. Install a big flatscreen TV on the wall, with a Mac Mini behind it, with a net connection, and let it run. See if people don't gravitate to it. See if people don't want to have meetings in the lobby. (I think some might.) 2. At a conference, like Demo or Davos, scatter four screens around the main lobby (not the meeting room), with one Mac driving them all or each with its own Mac Mini. Again see how it affects the dynamic. You might want to show pictures taken at the conference for a unique recursive effect. Or just use the AP news photo feed. Either would be sufficient to learn how it works. I bet we would learn a lot. Let me know if you decide to give it a try, and by all means please blog about your experiences, share what you learn with the rest of us.