Liz Shackleton and Sen-lun Yu
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Festival review: Shanghai International Film Festival
It was always going to be a difficult year for the Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff). The festival is striving to re-invent itself but China has recently suffered a series of calamities, both man-made and natural, that inevitably cast a shadow over this year's event.
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Cannes competition entry faces Chinese censor
LouYe's Summer Palace, the sole Chinese film incompetition at Cannes this year, will be screened for the China Film Bureaulater this week in what should be an interesting test case of the country'scurrent censorship environment.Thefilm was approved at script stage and filmed through official channels, butaccording to Chinese regulations, the ...