Posts Tagged ‘ Cong Uan ’

Lost in direction 

November 20, 2010
Lost in direction 

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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Who will direct Hanoi’s 1,000th?

August 8, 2009
Who will direct Hanoi’s 1,000th?

The current state of the Hanoi Worker’s Theater, slated to open for the capital’s 1,000 the anniversary next year. LookAtVietnam – The planning of the capital’s millennial birthday celebration has been running recklessly on autopilot without any one person in charge.  With 700 days to go until the Thang Long – Hanoi 1,000th Anniversary, the [...]

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Who will direct Hanoi’s 1,000th?

August 7, 2009
Who will direct Hanoi’s 1,000th?

The current state of the Hanoi Worker’s Theater, slated to open for the capital’s 1,000 the anniversary next year. The planning of the capital’s millennial birthday celebration has been running recklessly on autopilot without any one person in charge. With 700 days to go until the Thang Long – Hanoi 1,000th Anniversary, the celebration’s director’s [...]

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For one family, a history of learning

June 14, 2009
For one family, a history of learning

Representatives of the Nguyen Tat Thanh family line of 1730’s descendants plant a tree at the Do Temple, which worships their ancestor. LookAtVietnam – Four times a year, the two-storey house at 8 O Cach Street in Ha Noi’s Long Bien District gets crowded with up to 200 descendants of the Nguyen Tat Thanh family [...]

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Tall tales or true

February 27, 2009
Tall tales or true

A still form the blockbuster “Red Cliff”. Can the Vietnamese film industry learn from the success of the Chinese dynastic war story “Red Cliff” and place creativity before historic facts to make a film on the founder of Hanoi? Based on the famous Battle of Red Cliffs in ancient China, the two-part blockbuster “Red Cliff” [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...