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Xi yang jing = Shadow magic / Xi yang jing , China Germany Taiwan United States - Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Classics : [Distributed by] Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2001] - 1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. - plastic 4 3/4 in.

Originally produced as a Chinese motion picture in 1999. Special features: Director commentary [optional audio track, in English]; filmographies [text feature]; theatrical trailers [selected Sony Pictures Classics].

Director of photography, Nancy Schreiber ; editors, Keith Reamer, John Gilroy ; production designer, Wang Jixian ; costume designer, Huang Baorong ; music, Zhang Lida. Director of photography, Nancy Schreiber ; editors, Keith Reamer, John Gilroy ; production designer, Wang Jixian ; costume designer, Huang Baorong ; music, Zhang Lida.

Jared Harris (Raymond), Xia Yu (Liu Jing lun), Liu Peiqi (Master Ren), Lu Liping (Madame Ren), Li Yusheng (Lord Tan), Fang Qingzhuo (Widow Jiang), Xing Yufei (Tan Ziaoling).

In Peking in 1902, an Englishman named Wallace (Jared Harris) arrives with a hand-cranked projector and a box of silent movies. Eventually, he overcomes tradition to build an audience for the new art form, films the people of China, and even shows his magic to the Empress. Most importantly, he makes a local disciple, the ambitious young technophile photographer Liu Jinglun (Xia Yu), who becomes entranced by the new invention. Liu's initial fascination with the mechanics of moving pictures quickly develops into a visionary understanding of cinema's metaphysical and political potential.

MPAA Rating: Rated PG for brief mild language.


DVD, Region 1, Dolby Surround (2-channel), widescreen presentation (aspect ratio 1.85:1).


In Mandarin and English, with optional subtitles in English or French; closed-captioned in English.

ISBN: 0767863259 9780767863254

Standard No.: 043396061545

Publisher. No.: 06154 Sony Pictures Classics

Subjects--Personal Names:
Tan, Xinpei, 1847-1917 --Drama.
Tan, Xinpei, 1847-1917 --Films.
Tan, Xinpei, 1847-1917

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1912-1949

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Motion picture industry--History--Drama.
Motion picture industry--History--China--Drama.
Cinéma--Industrie--Histoire--Films.
Cinéma--Industrie--Histoire--Chine--Films.
Motion picture industry.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
China--History--Republic, 1912-1949--Drama.
Chine--Histoire--1912-1949 (République)--Films.
China--Historia--Teatro--Grabaciones videos.
China.

Subjects--Index Terms: Zhongguo Xi ju

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Foreign films.
Feature films--China.
Historical films--China.
Romance films--China.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures--China.
Mandarin dialect films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Drama.
Feature films.
History.
Feature films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.

LC Class. No.: PN1995.9.C47 / S53 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 791.4372