Wang
Shuo in Pusan, Korea
The Pusan International
Film Festival News for October 12 featured a short interview
with Chinese writer and (now) director Wang Shuo, who was unfortunately
not accompanied by his film Baba (first-prize winner at
the 2000 Locarno Film Festival). Baba was scheduled, but
its screening was prevented by mainland Chinese officialdom.
There were even reports that the prints were taken or sent back
to China and destroyed.
China
to Hold Annual Film Exhibitions in American Cities
China is to hold film exhibitions
in the United States every year, showing at least six award-winning
Chinese movies of the year, the Xinhua News Agency reported recently.
At the Fifth Changchun
Film Festival, LIU Jianzhong, Director of the State Film Bureau,
said that he hopes for more exchange of films with international
film circles.
Last year, China held film
exhibitions in the United States, Germany and six other countries
and regions. Chinese movies participated in 58 film festivals
and won 15 grand prizes. The movie industry also exported 38
movies.
Chinese
Media Delegation Visits Hollywood.
Organized by the Asia Society's
Southern California Center, "Entertainment & Media in
China" Conference was held on May 23, 2000 at the 20th Century
FOX Studios in Los Angeles, U.S.A. The conference was chaired
by Rupert Murdoch, Chairman of the News Corporation and Jack
Valenti, President & CEO of MPAA (Motion Picture Association
of America) and MPA (Motion Picture Association).
The invited Chinese delegates
and speakers include: Tian Congming (Minister of State Administration
of Radio, Film & Television [SARFT]), An Li (Deputy Director,
Foreign Affairs Department of SARFT), Chen Minyi (Deputy Editor-In-Chief
of China Radio International), Chen Yin (Division Director of
Planning and Development of Ministry of Information Industry),
Li Qiankuan (Film Director and Director of the Changchun Film
Studio), Luo Jianhui (Deputy Director of Broadcasting Affairs
Supervision Department of SARFT), Yang Buting (Deputy Director
of Film Bureau of SARFT), and Zhang Changming (Executive Vice-President
& Senior Reporter of China Central Television). The delegation
left for Canada and Europe immediately after the conference.
Top 10 Chinese Feature Films of 1999
1. Magnificent Birth (Hengkong chushi, dir: Chen Guoxing). About the
birth of China's first nuclear bomb in the 1960s.
2. Yixi Zuoma (dir: Xie Fei). Another attempt by Xie Fei to
reflect the lives of Chinese minorities.
3. The Road Home (Wo de fuqin muqin, dir: Zhang
Yimou). A nostalgic visit of a couple's first love in the 1950s.
4. Crash
Landing (Jinji
pojiang, dir: Zhang Jianya). A Chinese action film with successful
use of special effects.
5. Shower (Xizao, dir: Zhang Yang). An unusual observation
of China's public bathhouse.
6. Battles of Shanghai (Dazhan huninghang).
About PLA's battle with the Nationalists in liberating Shanghai.
7. Tell Me Your Secret (Shuochu ni de mimi, dir: Huang
Jianxin). How ordinary people responded to a car accident.
8. Breaking the Silence (Piaoliang mama, dir: Sun Zhou). A story about
how a poor woman raises her only child. Starring Gong Li.
9. The Promise (Shuohao bu fengshou, dir:
Fu Jinsheng). About a couple's emotional ups and downs in contemporary
China.
10. Unusual Summer (Feichang xiari, dir: Lu
Xuechang). An exploration of a criminal's psycology.
--- Awarded
by the Shanghai Film Critics Association
