Raise The Red Lantern/Zhang Yimou

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I finally saw Red Lantern the other day, and while I greatly enjoyed it, the end was a massive letdown/anti-climax. Nonetheless, my video store has several Yimou titles, and I would like to see more. Where next?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 November 2003 04:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I loved Shanghai Tria, loved it loved it, and for some stupid reason never went and rented any others.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 7 November 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, I came very close to seeing that when it came out. I'm a sucker for 1920s/1930s Shanghai.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 November 2003 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

that ought to be "Triad"

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 7 November 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

weirdly in the uk none of the 80s chinese cinema is available, but 'red sorghum' is supposed to be really good. 'the story of qiu ji' (can't remember sp.) is very different from his usual work.

― enrique (Enrique), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

High praise here for To Live.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 14 November 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

yes!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

twenty-two years pass...

To Live's a solid melodrama. The fault's in the scriptwriting, which explains everything we can see and understand.

― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 January 2026 11:21 (three weeks ago)

His recent work is weird - I quite enjoyed gangster drama Under The Light, but Article 20 really is the worst case scenario for what you'd expect from a preachy propaganda film. A new shot like every three seconds, almost like Yimou is consciously shitting on the film.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 22 January 2026 11:26 (three weeks ago)

I liked One Second.

― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 January 2026 11:34 (three weeks ago)

To Live left me feeling a little ho hum, Red Sorghum was a lot better. Quite an odd structure but kind of works. If you're after a film about running a brewery this could be the one for you. PS Gong Li is married to Jean-Michel Jarre these days.

― ernest borgnine as pitchfork-wielding pacifist amish farmer (Matt #2), Friday, 23 January 2026 02:37 (three weeks ago)

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