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In Reply to: After this many days of dry spell... finally somethng great... posted by Victor Khomenko on September 07, 1999 at 19:33:24:
"Ju Dou" is my favorite film by director Zhang Yimou ("Raise The Red Lantern", "Red Sorghum", "To Live", "Shanghai Triad"). Those amazing expanses of red linen reminded me of the artist Cristo. And Gong Li is so beautiful. Another Chinese film I'd recommend is "Farewell My Concubine".
How did you like The Killer? I found it to be way too overrated.Watching something like the JuDou one can not but help wondering about how different the two cultures are: your typical Western and the Oriental. It is customary to say "minimalist" when describing the latter, but I thnk that is an ovesimplification. For anyone accustomed to Hermitage, Prado and Drezden Gallery, visiting the Tokyo National Museum requires a complete rethinking. I am still unsure as far as to what to make of it. For instance, the Chinese import porcelain rivals the best of Sevre's, but for themselves they kept producing the simplest possible forms. Can one be so good while pretending? On the other hand, the post-WWII Japanese took to collecting the Western art like fish to water. A long-supressed desires? Go figure. Few things ever conform to simple explanations.
I agree with "The Killer" being overrated. I prefer to take my John Woo straight, no chaser: "Hard Boiled", "A Bullet In The Head" (director's cut only, please), and "Face-Off". Before I make too many generalizations about 1.4 billion people, I shall adhere to the following classifications: Chinese movies (e.g., dir. Zhang Yimou) = People's Republic of China, Taiwanese movies (e.g., dir. Ang Lee) = Nationalist China, and Hong Kong movies (e.g., dirs. John Woo, Wong Kar-Wei, Tsui Hark) = Hong Kong (I know, I know, they belong behind door #1 now).
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