Zhang Yimou Articles

Tusi Tamasese's The Orator For the time being, 63 countries are in the running for nominations in 2012 Academy Awards' Best Foreign Language Film category. Notable among those is New Zealand, submitting its first entry ever, Tusi Tamasese's Samoan-language O Le Tulafale / The Orator. Of course, there's a good chance the final number of official contenders will go down as a consequence of disqualifications [...]

Topol in Joseph Losey's Galileo (top); Maggie Cheung in Zhang Yimou's Hero (middle); Jean-Pierre Cargol, François Truffaut in Truffaut's L'Enfant sauvage / The Wild Child (bottom) According to London's bfi Southbank site, filmmaker Joseph Losey, a victim of the Red Scare who settled in England in the '50s, had already directed Bertold Brecht’s play Galileo in 1947 in Los Angeles. In the 1974 film version [...]

MOTHER Wins Top Asian Film Award The Asian Film Awards' first Best Costume Designer prize was presented by Donatella Versace to Christian Lacroix, Anne Dunsford and Wang Chia-Hui for Tsai Ming-liang's French-Taiwanese Face (above). Another Face victory: the movie was much praised for its look (though not for its storyline): was in the Best Production Designer category: the winners were Alain-Pascal Housiaux, Patrick Dechesne and [...]

Zhang Yimou, whose Raise the Red Lantern, Ju Dou, and Hero were nominated for Academy Awards, will receive a lifetime achievement award at the next Asian Film Awards ceremony. The awards presentation will take place during the Hong Kong Film Festival in March 2010. Zhang, 58, has been making movies since the late '80s. His first film, Red Sorghum, starred Gong Li, with whom the [...]