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The Last Emperor is the true story of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last ruler of the Chinese Ching Dynasty. Told in flashback, the film covers the years 1908 to 1967. We first see the three-year-old Pu Yi being installed in the Forbidden City by ruthless, dying dowager Empress Tzu-Hsui (Lisa Lu). Though he'd prefer to lark about like .. Read more

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  Thomas blasts government for American movie tax breaks

  • 22 Nov 2010

  Oscar-winning producer Jeremy Thomas has criticised the government for introducing tax breaks on American movies shot in the country - while he had to head abroad to make A Dangerous Method. The Last Emperor moviemaker is angered by the rules, which allow films with American studio backing a 20 per cent tax break in the U.K. He was forced to move shooting for his new movie A Dangerous Method, starring Keira Knightley, from Britain to Germany, with post-production in Canada - and Thomas is... Read more

  

  Beatles studio stages film festival

  • 14 Jan 2005

  Abbey Road studio, immortalised by the 1969 Beatles' album of the same name, is opening its doors for a film festival. The North London venue near where the fab four were pictured walking synchronised over a zebra crossing is usually closed to the public. But for 16 days this spring it will be showing many of the films that were scored at the St John's Wood site in an exclusive festival. The films to be screened range from blockbusters such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Raiders of the Lost... Read more

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    The story of Pu Yi, who ascended to the Imperial Throne in China at the age of three and became the country's last Emperor. Although it is 160 minutes long and shot with breathtaking scope and sumptuousness, Bernardo Bertolucci's film is a story about claustrophobia. Pu Yi is a prisoner in the ...

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    The Last Emperor is the true story of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last ruler of the Chinese Ching Dynasty. Told in flashback, the film covers the years 1908 to 1967. We first see the three-year-old Pu Yi being installed in the Forbidden City by ruthless, dying dowager Empress Tzu-Hsui (Lisa Lu). Though ...

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