Until 2000, foreign films were largely unavailable in China with the result that Chinese artists view
Western cinema history with fresh eyes.
Not exact matches
8:00 pm — TCM — My Darling Clementine John Ford's version of the famous confrontation at the OK Corral actually focuses more on Wyatt Earp's fictional romance with the fictional Clementine than on the real - life Earp / Clanton feud, but
history aside, this is one of the greatest and most poetic
westerns on film, proving yet again Ford's mastery of the genre and of
cinema.
11:30 am — TCM — My Darling Clementine John Ford's version of the famous confrontation at the OK Corral actually focuses more on Wyatt Earp's fictional romance with the fictional Clementine than on the real - life Earp / Clanton feud, but
history aside, this is one of the greatest and most poetic
westerns on film, proving yet again Ford's mastery of the genre and of
cinema.
8:00 am — Fox Movie Channel — My Darling Clementine John Ford's version of the famous confrontation at the OK Corral actually focuses more on Wyatt Earp's fictional romance with the fictional Clementine than on the real - life Earp / Clanton feud, but
history aside, this is one of the greatest and most poetic
westerns on film, proving yet again Ford's mastery of the genre and of
cinema.
Marlon Brando's labour - of - love
western epic, One - Eyed - Jacks, will also be playing in its brand - spanking new restored form, as will Frederick Wiseman's Hospital, a film which boasts quite possibly the greatest vomiting scene in the
history of
cinema.
Evoking the myths and
histories of the «Wild West» and taking the form of vignettes that last under a minute (as per Rule Number One), the films draw on American
Western folklore, Situationist psychogeography, early film and primitive
cinema, such as flipbooks and kinetoscopes.
Born in 1960 in Vancouver, Canada, Douglas is known for his films, photographs and installations that use new and outdated technologies, the media of
cinema, TV and photography, the conventions of various Hollywood genres (including film noir and the
Western) and reference classic literary works (notably, Samuel Beckett, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Marcel Proust, and Franz Kafka), to examine intersections of
history and memory in evocative, mesmerising artworks.
Other works on view include a suite of watercolors by Guo Hongwei, combining his renderings of American iconography with his father's calligraphy of Chinese classical poems; Chen Wei's staged photographs in the traditions of Gregory Crewdson and Cindy Sherman; a thick - imexhibitionso floral - patterned diptych by Liang Yuanwei, exhibitionsly featured in the Chinese pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia; Cheng Ran's romantically staged photos of the Hollywood sign, commenting on the role
cinema has played in shaping the image of America in the psyche of younger Chinese generations; the American premiere of Sun Xun's 21 Grams, a four - year long animation project reflecting on
history, social struggles and dystopia; and Hu Xiangqian's Art Museum, a video presentation of the «collection» of
Western artworks that have inspired the artist's creative language but that he's never seen in person or fully understood.