From Danwei:
Feng Xiaogang‘s The Banquet and Zhang Yimou‘s Curse of the Golden Flower were shut out of the foreign language Oscar shortlist this week. At roughly the same time as that announcement, Guangming Daily ran a report from SARFT that aims to discourage the copycat costume epics that, in SARFT’s language, “gain audiences but not applause”:
A SARFT representative explained that domestic blockbusters should be mainstream blockbusters; they should give prominence to a mainstream ideology, pursue top-level production, enter the mainstream market, gain the approval of the mases, and create good results and profits….[Full Text]
(Photo: Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang)
