Peter Biskind's movie history 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls' was a classic. His new TV history, 'Pandora's Box,' is not. It's rarely insightful, but never boring
Director Chen Kaige's film is a grand, old-fashioned epic with a cast of thousands, covering 50 years of Chinese history through the eyes of two orphans abandoned to the brutal tutelage of the Peking Opera. After being unavailable for years, the movie is back in a new restoration, screening at the Brattle Theatre.
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