| 50 Chinese movies produced in the past
50 years are on show in the "East Village Movie House" located
at the intersection of the 12th Street and Avenue 2, Manhattan, and
the week-long movie show has attracted a throng of audience of around
one thousand a day.
Started to show respectively from the 2nd in New York and 9th in
Los Angeles, the "2001 China Movie Tour in North America"
is the first commercial show of Chinese movies on a large scale
in the US. The box office of the show is hard to match with that
of the local movies, however, the whole activity is still believed
to be a helpful attempt for China's movies to get into the US in
the form of business.
These movies include The Painting Spirit starred by Gong Li, The
Red Valley by Ning Jing and A Spring Festival Farce featured by
Ge You, The Spring Fantasy, a film portraying Shi Guannan, a composer,
and the Blessings, "Thunderstorm", "The Rickshaw
Boy" and the "Song of Youth", movies shot according
to novels with the same names.
The movies on show are regarded as "masterpieces" by
some Chinese media there. Quoting views of some elderly overseas
Chinese "it is really enjoyable to see so many high-quality
Chinese movies in a society reeked with commercialized atmosphere".
Afterwards, the 50 movies will be on tour to other 26 cities in
the US and Canada.
(People's Daily 02/13/01)
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