Feng Yuanzheng Movies
- 2011
Filmmakers Huang Jianxin and Han Sanping offer a crash course on the Chinese Revolution in this companion piece to Han's 2009 film The Founding of a Republic. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Liu Ye, Feng Yuanzheng, (more)
Directed by Lou Ye, Zi Hudie revolves around the underground faction of anti-Nipponese fighters in 1930s Shanghai, just prior to the onset of the Sino-Japanese war. It's only the beginning when Cynthia (Zhang Ziyi), a young Chinese woman, learns the news of her lover Itami's (Toru Nakamura) rapidly approaching return to the military. In a second and even more devastating blow, Cynthia's brother, a contributor to an anti-Japanese newspaper, is killed by a Japanese activist. Three years later, switchboard operator Tang Yiling (Li Bingbing) and Situ (Liu Ye), her fiancé, are introduced to Cynthia after inadvertently heading into a protest held by a resistance group code-named Purple Butterfly, of which Cynthia (who has since changed her name to Ding Hui) has become a part. Ultimately, a botched assassination attempt leaves Situ with a mysterious briefcase; now a suspect himself, Situ is arrested by none other than Itami, who, after reuniting with his old flame, has no idea of her role in a complicit plan to have his boss (Kin Ei) assassinated. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
- Starring:
- Zhang Ziyi, Liu Ye, (more)
- 2002
Seven internationally respected filmmakers offer different perspectives on time and fate -- some witty, some somber -- in this omnibus film, with the stories linked by performances from jazz great Hugh Masekela. Dogs Have No Hell by Aki Kaurismaki follows one man's unusual journey as he celebrates getting out of jail by travelling to Siberia in search of a wife. Victor Erice directed the impressionistic Lifeline, in which a family of Spanish farmers try to help an infant who has fallen ill. Werner Herzog visits the Uru Eus tribe of South America -- believed to have been the last unknown indigenous people on earth prior to their discover in 1981 -- and explores the often sad toll their discovery has taken upon them in Ten Thousand Years Older. Chloe Sevigny plays an film actress waiting out a ten-minute break in her trailer in Int. Trailer. Night, directed by Jim Jarmusch. Wim Wedners contributes Twelve Miles to Trona, in which a young man, dazed and ill, tries to drive himself to a doctor through a barren desert. Spike Lee looks into the Florida vote-counting scandal, and how Al Gore's assistants and supporters reacted to it, in the short documentary We Wuz Robbed. And in 100 Flowers Hidden Deep, directed by Chen Kaige, a delusional elderly man is convinced his furniture still stands in the vacant lot where his home used to be, and he persuades workers to help him move it away to safety. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, (more)
- 1995
- PG
This award winning Chinese drama examines the actions of a shy and quiet misanthrope who slyly begins meddling in others' lives. The film is set within an aging apartment block in Beijing. Xiao Dou has been cared for by his sister since their parents died many years ago. Anxious to begin living her own life, his married sister tries to find a match for Xiao Dou. She has yet to succeed. Xiao Dou works for the Post Office as a letter box installer. He is reassigned to delivering mail in the Happiness District mail after the former mailman was caught reading the letters he was supposed to deliver. Intrigued by that, and by the games played by the postal clerk Yun Qing who tries to discover the contents of letters, Xiao Dou begins to secretly open the mail. This leads him to get involved in the dramas of people's lives. For example, when a boy commits suicide, Xiao Dou delays sending the letter to his parents who patiently wait to hear from their son. Xiao Dou's most difficult drama involves the relationship between to homosexual drug addicts. All of their lives forever change when the postman gets directly involved. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1986
This is a melodrama about the re-education of a woman from the city during the Cultural Revolution. Li Chun (Li Fengxu) is sent to work on a commune in Yunnan, near the Burmese border (the Sipsongpanna area), where the Dai people live a happy, uninhibited and friendly existence (at least according to this drama). Li Chun was a medical student but was sent to Yunnan for re-education when her parents landed on the wrong side of the Red Guards. The tough, argumentative old coot in charge of the farm comes to be one of the people Li Chun likes best. But Li Chun has a hard time of it at first, because even though she's willing to work her fingers to the bone, no one is willing to accept her. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Li Fengxu, Feng Yuanzheng, (more)
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