Once upon a time, it was much simpler to pick out the important world auteurs. For example, it was a good sign if someone was a dissident. Pretty much all of the post-'30s Soviet directors worth a damn -- Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Parajanov, Kira Muratova -- got banned, and the correlative relationship...
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The People's Republic has kicked off an eight-day holiday commemorating the 60th anniversary of the revolution -- there's so much going on in the country, film-wise, that I'm going to go in bullet-point style: -- In the words of the AP headline: "Communist China marks 60 years with tanks...
On the heels of China's announcement that it's planning 50 films to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution, Newsweek's Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop reports on the rapidly changing face of the film industry there from the set of "Bodyguards and Assassins," a big-budget...
ABC’s “Lost,” NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” and HBO’s “Entourage” and “John Adams” are among the television programs being honored with a 2008 Peabody Award. AMC’s critical darling “Breaking Bad” will also receive a Peabody Award, as will Nick’s “Avator: The Last Air Bender.” Several of HBO’s documentary...
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