![]() ![]() While Hollywood box offices churn out an infinite number oftickets for bigger, longer, and uncut teen porn, here's a movie about afifteen-year old girl with enough hardship in her life to flatten your wok.Chen's film is set in 1975, during the heat of the Cultural Revolution. John's InternationalWomen's Film and Video Festival we bring you this moving and subversiveChinese film. John's International Women's Film and Video FestivalDirected by Joan ChenWith Lu Lu, Lopsang, Jie Gao, Wenqiang, and othernames with X, Y, and Z.In honour of the 10th St. October 17 Xiu Xiu (USA 1998) 99 mins.(English subtitles.)10th St. ![]() Run Loa Runs is a clever andengaging movie that celebrates all possibilities. Butthis is no study in Euro-symbolism, no way. True,everybody loves the punk attitude of Lola: she easily embodies the newEurope, wild and passionate, youthful and driven to get what she wants. In other words, all is never quite as straight-ahead as it seems.Call it fate, fortune, luck, or simply the director's editorial choices, theplot of this film is, in every way, the real subject of our interest. But hot new director Tykwer plays fast and free with thelinear drive, opening us up to the way the smallest incidents can alter ourdestinies. The plot is assimple as it gets: Lola (Potente) runs (without Nikes) to save herboyfriend's life. September 12 Run Lola Run (Germany) 81 mins.aka Lola Rennt (English subtitles)Directed by Tom TykwerWith Moritz Bleibtreu, Franka Potente, et al.Hugelypopular as an immensely entertaining escape into Berlin, this movie is stillplaying on the mainland after months of sell-out crowds. ![]()
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