Tag: Chen Kaige
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Fortissimo boards Chen Kaige’s ‘The Volunteers: To The War’
The latest film from the director of ‘Farewell My Concubine’ will be released in China in late September.Fortissimo Films has secured international rights to Chinese war epic The Volunteers: To The War by Chen Kaige, the acclaimed director of Farewell My Concubine and The Battle At Lake Changjin.The Amsterdam and Beijing-based sales company will launch…
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‘Farewell My Concubine,’ Unfairly Cut by Harvey Weinstein in 1993, Set for Unedited Re-Release
Fifth-generation Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige’s “Farewell My Concubine” wowed the Cannes jury under president Louis Malle in 1993 — all the way to a Palme d’Or win. But by the time the three-hour epic set in the world of the Peking Opera reached U.S. theaters that year, Miramax’s Harvey Weinstein had cut 20 minutes from…