Talking movies with Scott Sumner
Subject to Change
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Jia Junke's One Second
In some ways it's kind of surprising that Jia Junke has been able to make all of these films because they are sort of critiques of Chinese society. And as you say films can be wonderful without having to be fantastically political. There was a... Jang Yimou had a film called One Second. It's about one second to film during like the Cultural Revolution or something that was preserved. I did enjoy Hero very much and it's interesting you gave exactly the same review to House of Flying Dangers and Hero saying it was very pretty but not much else. Oh that could be. Yeah I mean I think I liked both films. You know they're not exactly what I
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