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SPEAKING ON THE CLIMAX of his 1984 period piece Shanghai Blues, which ends on a Hong Kong–bound train from Shanghai, the Saigon-born, Hong Kong–based filmmaker Tsui Hark offered that the Chinese “are caught in something like a migrating curse, moving from one place to another.”On the face of it, Tsui’s cinema, with its staccato editing and pop sensibility, might seem to have little to do with that of Jia Zhangke, who has been the most prominent Mainland Chinese filmmaker on the festival circuit since his first feature, Pickpocket, played the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998 the title
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Since it’s nice to be prepared, the Academy announced some key dates for next year’s Oscars key being that they will be on March 27, 2022, splitting the difference between their more typical late February date and this year’s April event. As Glenn Whipp explained, the Academy may actually be getting out of the way of the Beijing Olympics and the Super Bowl.
Also this week, Ryan Faughnder and Wendy Lee explained what Amazon’s deal to buy MGM really means for Hollywood:
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