January 14, 2012
 Director Le Hoang (L). His latest sleazy movie, Toi nay 8h! (At 8 Tonight), revolves around a straightforward question that satirizes materialistic relationships: how much does it cost to sleep with you? Le Hoang’s latest soft-porn flick, Toi nay 8h! (At 8 Tonight), just like his earlier ones, are less “cheap” than many people [...]
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November 19, 2011
Shakespeare’s classic tragedy fails to win local hearts and minds The sound wasn’t great; voices were sometimes hushed and the words and music muddled together. And if the Old-English wasn’t difficult enough for local Vietnamese audiences to understand – native English speakers often don’t understand it – the poor audio system at the Ho [...]
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November 18, 2011
Vietnamese violinist Bui Cong Duy performed at the concert in Manila, the Philippines, on Nov 11. Vietnamese talented violinist Bui Cong Duy made a successful debut at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) in Manila, the Philippines, on November 11. Under the baton of Korean conductor Lee Joon Jae and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, [...]
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October 15, 2011
A scene from Canh dong bat tan (Floating lives), a box-office hit adaptation of Nguyen Ngoc Tu’s 2005 sensational short novel of the same name. ‘Floating lives’ was short-listed but not selected to represent Vietnam at next year’s Oscars. As the National Film Selection Committee was debating which of its three candidates – Canh [...]
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July 15, 2011
A scene in Giua hai the gioi (Between two worlds), this year’s first local horror movie is set for release on July 22 Murky censorship laws have long vexed horror film makers in Vietnam. In recent years, few have dared to risk releasing them. Those who complained their films were rendered unrecognizable by heavy [...]
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March 9, 2011
A trio of modern dancers are struggling to transform a small, old theater in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 5 into a hive of creative energy. This January, more than a hundred people (both foreign and local) attended a series of workshops at Le Thanh theater where professional artists taught courses on installation art, [...]
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December 7, 2010
Despite international honors and state investment, Vietnam’s traditional performance arts are losing audiences A performance of tuong, a disappearing form of Vietnamese theater, at the Hanoi-based Vietnam Tuong Theater Every day, five times a day, audiences pack the Thang Long Water Puppet Theater at 57B Dinh Tien Hoang Street, Hoan Kiem District. In 2009, [...]
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November 20, 2010
A scene of the 12-episode series Ly Cong Uan – Duong toi thanh Thang Long. The film is blasted as a “Chinese film in Vietnamese.” It’s not rare for Hollywood to produce films that feature the history and culture of a country with racially mixed casts. A film about Russia is in English. Actors and [...]
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November 14, 2010
 The legend “Dragon and Fairy” will be conveyed to audiences by a combination of dance, acrobatics and kung fu demons. When Laura Burke arrived in Ho Chi Minh City in 2000, she was shocked by the city’s lack of places for tourists to engage with the country’s cultural heritage. “It was so crazy because [...]
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February 2, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Director James Cameron expressed his gratitude to Vietnamese audiences for making “Avatar” the first movie to earn $1 million in Vietnam. A scene from Avatar. “Millions of thanks” took place at MegaStar cinema complexes on January 28. On this occasion, Cameron expressed his thanks to Vietnamese audiences through a short video clip. By January 27, [...]
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