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  1. 6:00 PM, MON, AUG 14. Innis Town Hall. Screening. Get Ticket. In the 1940s, peasant girl Chunhua runs away from a forced marriage and finds sanctuary within a yue opera troupe, where she meets Yuehong, and they become sworn sisters, performing together. Their journey navigating through political and social upheavals parallels the nation’s ...

  2. Dec 3, 2023 · Yet, despite the director’s standing, Two Stage Sisters came under fire for its sympathetic portrayal of the “bad” sister. (Madame Mao herself described the film as a “poisonous weed.”) The film would be suppressed for some fifteen years before its rediscovery in 1979, whereupon it became a major influence on Fifth Generation works ...

  3. Festival Details On the eve of his retirement, Professor Richard Peña has selected six films of particular importance to him and his career, ranging from classic Hollywood noir to one of the last Chinese films made before the Cultural Revolution to screen in this three day festival. Film Details Two Stage Sisters 1964 / […]

  4. Two Stage Sisters is a 1964 Chinese drama film produced by Shanghai Tianma Film Studio and directed by Xie Jin, starring Xie Fang and Cao Yindi.Made just before the Cultural Revolution, it tells the story of two female Yue opera practitioners from the same troupe who end up taking very different paths in their lives: "one succumbs to bourgeois affluence and privilege, while the other finds ...

  5. Sep 25, 2009 · Xie Jin’s “Two Stage Sisters,” a 1965 backstage melodrama, is the main attraction of a Chinese film series beginning on Saturday at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center.

  6. Jun 15, 2014 · It opened on Saturday with a restored color version of the classic “Two Stage Sisters,” a 1964 film about female Chinese opera singers before the Communist Revolution, during an era when most ...

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  8. Stage Sisters AKA Two Stage Sisters (Wu tai jie mei) Directed by Xie Jin. With Xie Fang, Cao Yindi, Deng Nan. China, 1964, DCP, color, 112 min. Mandarin with English subtitles. DCP source: Shanghai International Film Festival. One of the last films made in Shanghai before the Cultural Revolution, Xie Jin's most celebrated work tells a story of ...

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