Celebrities list / Chen Kaige

Forever Enthralled Handlung: Als Mei Lanfangs (1894-1961) große Zeit beginnt, ist die Peking-Oper längst nicht mehr so populär wie früher. Und da zudem Schauspieler in der chinesischen Gesellschaft wenig angesehen waren, muss sich der junge Sänger und Darsteller erst gegen enorme Ressentiments innerhalb seiner Familie durchsetzen, bis er auf der Bühne spielen kann. Immer wieder wird er ...

HONG KONG ( learn mandarin ) - Martial arts champion and international movie star Jet Li is returning to mandarin Chinese film with a starring role in "Ocean Paradise." The project is Li's first Chinese language film since the 2007 Peter Chan-directed epic "The Warlords." Li will star with Taiwanese actress Kwai Lun-mei, last seen in Tsui Hark's "All About Women," in the directorial debut of ...

I'm not a great scholar on this subject having seen relatively few early Chinese films. Essentially the Chinese film industry first flourished in the thirties and forties (First and Second Generations) then sank with the communist takeover in 1949 until the mid 1980s and the rise of filmmakers like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige (Fifth Generation). Although there are still good films in the interim ...

As a former film critic and film industry veteran (10 years) I often hear this argument that “movies are not as good as they used to be”. I think it’s rubbish. There are still many fine and compelling films made today…just not significantly from Hollywood. You just have to search harder …in your local indie/arthouse cinema or local film festival circuit instead of mega-mall multiplexes for ...

OK, so really early for this year's noms, but...anybody heard of/seen the new Chen Kaige film FOREVER ENTHRALLED?  (Chinese title was MEI LANFANG, 'cause it's about, well, Mei Lanfang). I've heard it's China's submission for the Foreign Film Award but what does that mean?  It's automatically entered?  Or there's votes to go yet before it's a contender?  Or...? Anyway, nice film.  No ...

I actually have to do the same assignment except my professor provided the class with a list of movies. Here it is: * District 9 (Neill Bloomkamp) * Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle) * Cadillac Records (Darnell Martin) * Blade Runner (Ridley Scott) * American Gangster (Ridley Scott) * Wall E (Andrew Stanton) * Rabbit Proof Fence (Philip Noyce) * Le Promesse (Jean-Pierre Dardenne...

Quote: Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum I had a discussion once about Hong Kong films with a Chinese co-worker who grew up in Beijing and she had the nerve to tell me, "Hong Kong is a cultural desert, a wasteland." I didn't think of the right response at the time to deliver to this commie bitch, but it occurred to me later that the ...

The Founding of a Republic, a state-funded film that marks 60 years of Chinese communism, features all-star cameos from the likes of Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Zhang Ziyi A government funded, all-star propaganda film about the birth of modern China under communism has become the biggest homegrown film of all time at the Chinese box office. The Founding of a Republic, directed by Han Sanping...

"The Founding of a Republic" is now the highest-grossing Chinese film in China's boxoffice history, earning 406 million yuan ($58.4 million) since its Sept. 16 debut, a China Film Group spokesperson told the Xinhua News Agency. "Founding" overtook Feng Xiaogang's "If You Are The One," released less than a year ago. However, unlike Feng's film, "Founding," which tells the story of the Chinese ...