Movie Review | 'China Blue': The Heartbreak of Cheap Labor
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âChina Blueâ reveals more than we may care to know about the provenance of our most beloved item of clothing, blue jeans.
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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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An ingenious first film Â made on a budget of about $7,000 by a former engineer and self-taught filmmaker Â about the perils of ingenuity.
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Zhang Yimou takes a pause between marital arts extravaganzas with this simple, affecting melodrama about a mournful Japanese patriarch on an odyssey through rural China.
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The nation's low-budget films, imbued with the residue of communism, are wowing critics and audiences.
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âOut of the Blue,â by the writer and director Robert Sarkies, dramatizes the terror of a day of massacre without exploiting it.
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Rising wages on China's more prosperous eastern coast are pushing some factories inland where labor is cheap.
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At its heart, âLost in Beijingâ is a sturdy morality tale about innocence and corruption, wealth and want, sex and power.
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The plight of the litchi industry shows both the promise and the pitfalls of China's economic growth, from the flood of investment to overproduction and crashing profits.
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The plight of the litchi industry shows both the promise and the pitfalls of China's remarkable economic growth.
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âCanvasâ is a movie that rings emotionally true, despite structural contrivances and dim, washed-out color.
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BEIJING -- The outrage started with the discovery that more than 500 migrant laborers had been forced to work in conditions bordering on slavery in out-of-the-way brick kilns. Local Communist Party authorities, state-run media said, had looked the other way.
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One film provides a positive message of unity. Another dramatizes the president's difficult days. A third offers sympathy to a nation wounded on Sept. 11, but includes foreign filmmakers' points of view.
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The events recounted in the World War II drama âMiriamâ are horrific, and the story behind it is moving. Unfortunately, the finished product feels like exploitation.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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and then wraps up the film by telling you why it all matters and how you&#39;re supposed to feel, well, then that movie is flawed.
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The dream of a free world becomes a  nightmare of modern day slavery in Ken Loach&#39;s latest film,  about migrant workers trying to eke out a living in Britain  where they are exploited and abused.