THE PLACE: Here’s a tidbit for you: Golden Flower Vietnamese Restaurant, the Reno icon on West Fifth Street, wasn’t always the only Golden Flower in town. For a time nearly 20 years ago, there were ...

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BEIJING — “The Curse Of The Golden Flower,” Zhang Yimou’s martial arts epic was Friday confirmed as China’s candidate for the foreign-language Academy Award nomination. While decision will surprise ...

Zhang Yimou’s “Curse of the Golden Flower” is blessed by an even grander color scheme than those he used in “Hero” and “House of Flying Daggers.” The film also is cursed by its own excesses, the rich ...

For all of Zhang Yimou’s well-earned accolades, a debate simmers among many in the Chinese film elite over the proper perspective to be given the acclaimed director. Central to the so-called Fifth ...

What a showman Zhang Yimou has become. Small wonder he’s in New York directing “The First Emperor” for the Metropolitan Opera and will helm the opening and closing ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics ...

Zhang Yimou’s The Curse of the Golden Flower might preview what the opening ceremonies at Beijing’s 2008 Olympics will look like. The director is orchestrating the festivities at China’s summer games, ...

Traveling Alone for Thousands of Miles, about a Japanese man traveling to China to learn about his filmmaker son. Now Zhang now combines the genres of melodrama and martial arts action for his latest ...

But in this film, Zhang stumbles with a dreary, futile plot in which the only character who seems on top of his game is the one who's on top from the start: Emperor Ping, played by the superb Chow Yun ...

Sometimes there's nothing as appealing as a good old-fashioned melodrama. What with Hollywood's propensity for glib human observations or even empty escapism, the power of a really heart-wrenching ...