The New World System
It is surely worth remarking that new movies by Wong Karwai and Hou Hsiao-hsien, China’s two leading auteurs, were released stateside on the same April weekend. The remark that springs to mind is: where’s China?
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Spring 2007: Volume 60, Number 3
Special Issue on Brokeback Mountain, plus reviews of Volver, The Line of Beauty, Passio; and an interview with Fernando Perez
READ: Passio, and editor Rob White’s introduction to Brokeback
Hero
When Zhang Yimou’s Hero was first released in China in 2002, even though the dazzling beauty of its martial-arts scenes did create a sensation, many viewers were angered by what they believed to be the film’s political stand—a justification of despotism in the history of China.