Tiananmen film gets director 5-year ban
81439
BEIJING  - China has banned acclaimed   director Lou Ye from making movies for five years as punishment   for sending his latest film "Summer Palace," an erotic love   story set against the backdrop of the bloody crackdown in   Tiananmen Square, to the Cannes Film Festival without   government approval, official media reported Monday.
373089
A top opposition politician in ex-Soviet  Belarus was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday in  what he denounced as an attempt to block his drive to make the  ex-Soviet state more democratic.
567240
Award-winning film director Zhang Yuan, a member of China's acclaimed "sixth generation" of movie-makers, has been detained for taking drugs, police and state media reports said Friday.
182816
China has pulled Li Yuâs âLost in Beijing,â a movie whose sexually explicit scenes were already censored, from theaters and banned its producer from the film business for two years, The Associated Press reported. The ruling against âLost in Beijingâ accused the filmmakers of publishing unapproved pornographic scenes from the movie on the Internet and on DVDs, the official China News Service Web site reported. The filmâs producer, Fang Li, said he believed that Chinese officials faced political pressure to act amid the rapid spread of uncensored versions of âLost in Beijingâ and another sexually explicit film, Ang Leeâs âLust, Caution,â on the Internet and in pirated DVDs.
5401
The unusually harsh sentence comes at a time of concerns for the quality and safety of Chinaâs food and drug system.
445740
China has blocked production of âShanghai,â a Hollywood film about an American who investigates a friendâs death in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, The Associated Press reported. Luan Guozhi, the director of international cooperation at the Chinese Film Bureau, declined to reveal the governmentâs concerns, but said the filmmakers could alter the script and resubmit their application. The Japanese invasion of China during World War II remains a sensitive topic, and other filmmakers have had difficulty winning approval from China for projects set in the same era. Variety has reported that the cast includes John Cusack, Gong Li, right, and Ken Watanabe. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have already been spent on production, and the director, Mikael Hafstrom, has been in China since September preparing to film. Variety reported that he planned to move the production to Hong Kong.
54525
Chinese director Lou Ye has been banned from making movies in his home country for five years because his film "Summer Palace" was screened at Cannes in May without government approval, state media said Monday.
513258
A far-right activist was convicted of incitement and sentenced to the maximum five years in prison Thursday for anti-Semitic activities, including contributing to a Web site dedicated to Holocaust denial.
421158
Authorities have fired an official in central China after city inspectors reportedly beat to death a man who filmed their confrontation with villagers, China's Xinhua news agency reported Friday.
650997
China's most outspoken media voice discusses the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre and whether it could happen again.
140466
China has banned director Lou Ye from   making movies for the next five years after he submitted   "Summer Palace" to the Cannes Film Festival without official   approval, state media reported on Monday.
422931
Hollywood director Steven Spielberg's decision to quit the Beijing Olympics over the Darfur crisis is drawing condemnation by China's state-controlled media
528910
China says director is irresponsible for pulling out of Olympic role in protest over Darfur crisis
723680
China has banned director Lou Ye from  making movies for the next five years after he submitted  "Summer Palace" to the Cannes Film Festival without official  approval, state media reported on Monday.
754606
An opposition leader was convicted Thursday of organizing an unauthorized rally against the disputed election of Belarus&#039; authoritarian president and sentenced to 5 1/2 years in jail, his lawyer said.
245118
President Jacques Chirac has championed lifting the ban imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre which the EU believes implies a near-pariah status China no longer deserves.
470417
&quot;Lust, Caution&quot;, a sexually explicit spy thriller which won the best picture award at the Venice Film Festival, has been cut by 30 minutes to allow Chinese children to watch it, the official Xinhua news agency said.