Chinese Movies Business Show Won High Appreciation in the US50 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. By PD Online staff member Yin Zhili |
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