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Slumdog Millionaire is many things: It is a multiple award winner, having garnered five Critics' Choice Awards, four Golden Globes and seven BAFTA Awards. It has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards and is widely considered a frontrunner for Best Picture.
When Zhang Yimou conceived the opening gala for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he intended that fireworks would show off one of the "four great inventions of ancient China".
This month last year, a bunch of snapshots of Hong Kong star Edison Chen and several starlets engaged in extremely explicit scenes surfaced online.
This has been an uneven year for Chinese cinema. On the one hand box-office revenues are expected to reach a new high, on the other hand mediocrity still reigns supreme. This makes it a daunting task to pick 10 shining examples of cinematic excellence.
What do Oprah Winfrey and Wen Jiabao have in common? They can both catapult obscure works into bestsellers.
The "70-hou", or shall I say "30-something", seems to have fallen through the crevice of public attention.
Using administrative means to muffle a voice like Song's represents the worst of both worlds.
But it is definitely more than simply a copycat. It is imitation with a twist or imitation with an attitude. It could even be seen as a parody.
While police brutality is indeed a vicious virus, one should not jump to the conclusion...
There has to be a quality control mechanism so that businesses are not tempted with get-rich-quick schemes that harm public interest.
Chinese media have a tradition of amplifying good words from outsiders.
A cultural exchange program between Ningbo and Florence has unexpectedly hit an aesthetic roadblock.
