In this blog post, I revisit the Academy Award-nominated 1990 Chinese film Ju Dou (Directors: Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang), reigniting the discussion around the much-explored national allegory that this film provides for the China of the past, present and future. Ju Dou is a film about gender roles and generational conflict, but these themesContinue reading “Revisiting Ju Dou (1990) and its allegory for China”
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 has a minimalist background score that intensifies in just the right scenes
The 2020 film The Trial of the Chicago 7 (director: Aaron Sorkin), available on Netflix, is making headlines and sweeping nominations and awards galore, most recently receiving a nod from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in as many as six categories. None of these categories, however, recognizes the brilliant scoring provided byContinue reading “The Trial of the Chicago 7 has a minimalist background score that intensifies in just the right scenes”
The Roaring Kotzilla 