Picked this one up from the library and watched it last night with the wife. The blurb on the box proclaims it as the "Chinese 'Cinema Paradiso'" . . . well, I wouldn't go that far. It had its moments, but the unlikely coincidences and melodramatic plot twists skewered the good things the film was trying to say about the romance of the movies -
Interesting look at Communist China of the 70s from the small town perspective, and I wholeheartedly agree with the sense of loss when people stopped coming together for a movie experience and started staying at home with their tv's and videos - the magic of an old film on a stretched white sheet out in the open air. Not bad, but nothing I'm likely to remember long.