"I always compare filmmaking to cooking. Shooting is like buying
the groceries. You buy all kinds of ingredients and the better
ingredients you get, the better chance you have of making the movie
you want."--Ang Lee, from "Speaking in Images"
"Speaking in Images" offers an engaging and rare collection of
interviews with the directors who have changed the face of Chinese
and international cinema. Michael Berry's discussions with such
directors as Ang Lee ( "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"), Zhang
Yimou ( "Hero"), Chen Kaige ( "Farewell My Concubine"), Stanley
Kwan ( "Lan Yu"), Tsai Ming-Liang ( "Vive l'Amour"), Edward Yang (
"Yi Yi"), and Hou Hsiao-hsien ( "Flowers of Shanghai") offer an
eclectic and comprehensive portrait of contemporary Chinese
cinema.
In interviews that capture each filmmaker's unique vision, the
subjects discuss their formative years, the ideas and influences
that shaped their work, film aesthetics, battles with censors and
studios, the mingling of commercial and art film, and the future of
Chinese cinema in a transnational context. Berry's introduction to
the collection provides an overview of Chinese cinema in the second
half of the twentieth century, placing the directors and their work
in a wider historical and cultural context.
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