Stephen Colbert confessed he was shocked this afternoon to learn Anthony Scaramucci was out as White House communications director. “The front stabber has been back stabbed,” Colbert mourned. “He said he was going to fire everybody and, I’ve got to admit, he delivered. The Mooch lasted as communications director for only 10 days. That’s not even a whole pay period.” He was fired, Colbert revealed, because the Trump administration wanted to replace Scaramucci with someone…
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Contemporary Chinese Cinema is a column devoted to exploring contemporary Chinese-language cinema primarily as it is revealed to us at North American multiplexes. The sneakiest major release of the year is surely the latest from Japanese director Shunji Iwai, whose new movie opens this Friday at a dozen multiplexes around North America courtesy of the distributor China Lion Film. Last Letter is Iwai’s first film made in China, and stars Zhou Xun, who starred in one of last year’s best films, Ann Hui’s Our Time Will Come , which was also distributed here by China Lion. That he would be working in a new country is no surprise: Iwai is one of the more eclectic filmmakers of his generation: having started in TV and video in the early 90s before moving into film, he’s since made documentaries and music videos, science fiction films and anime, epics of modern alienation and ravishingly romantic odes to the wonders of youth and love. His last film, Chang-ok’s Letter , was an hour-long...
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