In a season of impressive retrospectives (of films by Alfred Hitchcock, Ernst Lubitsch, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Alain Resnais), the most eye-opening may be the series of Chinese opera films currently underway at the U. of C. Film Studies Center. Chinese opera remains relatively unknown to American audiences, the popularity of Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine and Tsui Hark's Peking Opera Blues notwithstanding, making the series a worthy cultural lesson.…
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