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		<title>Under the Hawthorn Tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under the Hawthorn Tree/Shanzha shu zhi lian (Zhang Yimou, China 2010) A student asked a few weeks ago why it was the case that Zhang Yimou&#8217;s films in recent years seemed to lack the captivating power of his earlier films. She was thinking of the films from the 1990s like Raise the Red Lantern, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureworlds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8284849&amp;post=1064&amp;subd=cultureworlds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jiro Dreams of Sushi</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jiro Dreams of Sushi (David Gelb, Japan 2011) The title may refer to the dreams of the 85-year-old sushi master but the film in reality feeds the food porn fantasies of both filmmaker and spectator alike. If the fish must be sliced and the rice shaped just right, so must every loving close-up of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureworlds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8284849&amp;post=1054&amp;subd=cultureworlds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deux de la vague</title>
		<link>http://cultureworlds.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/deux-de-la-vague/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 17:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deux de la vague/Two in the Wave (Emmanuel Laurent, France 2009) The relationship between the two founding fathers of the French New Wave — Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut — are explored through archival footage, press articles and personal letters. Highlights include the filmmakers&#8217; trenchant calls to shut down the Cannes festival in 1968, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureworlds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8284849&amp;post=1046&amp;subd=cultureworlds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Norwegian Wood</title>
		<link>http://cultureworlds.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/norwegian-wood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norwegian Wood (Tran Anh Hung, Japan 2010) I think there is a reason why, after something like twelve novels and numerous short stories, and despite his popularity, Haruki Murakami&#8217;s work has not been adapted into film before this. The mix of magic realism and tragic nihilism, combined with a taste for surrealism, that thread through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureworlds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8284849&amp;post=1032&amp;subd=cultureworlds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Miwa, a Japanese Icon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miwa, a Japanese Icon (Pascal-Alex Vincent, France/Japan 2011) A curious little documentary I managed to catch at the European Film Market at Berlin. It traces the career of Akihiro Miwa, a transgender performer who was apparently Japan&#8217;s most popular stage and screen actress of the 1950s and 60s, but barely covered in Western accounts of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureworlds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8284849&amp;post=1006&amp;subd=cultureworlds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Late Autumn</title>
		<link>http://cultureworlds.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/late-autumn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late Autumn/Man Chu (Kim Tae-yong, South Korea 2010) Not to be confused with Ozu&#8217;s film of 1960, Late Autumn is a remake of a Korean film of 1966, which had already once been remade in 1981. The story revolves around the relationship between a woman who is let out of prison for a few days [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureworlds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8284849&amp;post=994&amp;subd=cultureworlds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Come Rain, Come Shine</title>
		<link>http://cultureworlds.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/come-rain-come-shine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come Rain, Come Shine/Saranghanda, Saranghaji Anneunda (Lee Yoon-ki, South Korea 2011) A man, a woman, a house and a kitten. That&#8217;s all it takes to make a film, I learn from the only East Asian competition film at Berlin this year. The film opens with a young couple in a car. The man is driving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureworlds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8284849&amp;post=990&amp;subd=cultureworlds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vampire</title>
		<link>http://cultureworlds.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/vampire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vampire (Shunji Iwai, USA/Canada 2011) I was at the 61st Berlinale a few weeks ago, and decided to watch this film by Shunji Iwai, the director of one of my favourite films, Love Letter. Shot in Vancouver, Vampire is a USA/Canada co-production and Iwai&#8217;s first English-language film. The eponymous vampire in the film is Simon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureworlds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8284849&amp;post=971&amp;subd=cultureworlds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CFFUK presents: Aftershock + talk</title>
		<link>http://cultureworlds.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/cffuk-presents-aftershock-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 01:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Year of the Rabbit! I should&#8217;ve probably posted this before the event, but I got caught in the exam marking maelstorm and forgot. This evening, the Chinese Film Forum UK presented our now-annual Chinese New Year film event at Manchester&#8217;s Cornerhouse. The film screened was the mainland Chinese blockbuster, Aftershock (Feng Xiaogang, China 2010), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureworlds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8284849&amp;post=958&amp;subd=cultureworlds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Karate Kid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Karate Kid franchise looks to be one of those that can be remade for every generation. After all, the premise and structure are pretty basic and transferable to any context: young person moves to new town, is bullied, and learns the value of self-belief through martial arts and the mentorship of an older and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultureworlds.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8284849&amp;post=905&amp;subd=cultureworlds&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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