In any event, " Blind Shaft " is less striking for its storyline than for the world it presents _ a rural moonscape of coal-dust, cas7al environmental disaster, and atavistic behavior.
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Last year's winner for best narrative feature film, Li Yang's " Blind Shaft, " set in a cutthroat world of Chinese coal miners, suggested a small-scale Asian answer to " Goodfellas ."
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The top prize for artistic contribution went to China's Li Yang, the screenwriter and director of " Mang Jing " ( Blind Shaft ), a crime film about two Chinese coal miners.
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The award for best narrative feature went to Li Yang for " Blind Shaft, " a tense melodrama about a pair of miners whose scraping to get by eventually brings them to the brink of murder.
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Best Picture : " Infernal Affairs " ( Hong Kong ), " The Missing " ( Taiwan ), " Goodbye, Dragon Inn " ( Taiwan ), " PTU " ( Hong Kong ) and " Blind Shaft " ( China ).
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Like Li's previous film, " Blind Shaft ", which dealt with the notoriously dangerous mining industry, " Blind Mountain " turns a sharply critical eye towards another one of China's continuing social problems, this time selling women for marriage in modern-day China.
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10 .'BLIND SHAFT': The Chinese filmmaker Li Yang's tough, pitiless story about two murderous hustlers recalls the kind of pared-down genre movies that used to come out of Warner Brothers in the 1930s, which makes it a nice bookend for the first film on my list.
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Like many films that touch on the underbelly of Chinese society ( see for example, Li Yang's " Blind Shaft " or " Blind Mountain ", or Wang Xiaoshuai's " Beijing Bicycle " ), Li Yu's tale of prostitution, blackmail, and rape in modern-day Beijing has been plagued with censorship problems.
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BLIND SHAFT Directed by : Li Yang Written by Li Yang, based on a novel by Liu Qingbang Starring : Li Yixiang, Wang Shuangbao, Wang Baoqiang Running time : 92 minutes Unrated ( violence, sexual situations, brief nudity ) In Mandarin, with subtitles ( BS ) ( BS ) ( BS)
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Tuesday : " Blind Shaft, " " Connie and Carla, " " Dinner for Five : The Complete First Season, " " Goodfellas ( Widescreen Special Edition ), " " Happy Days : The Complete First Season, " " Mean Streets ( Special Edition ), " " New York Minute, " " Taking Lives ."
