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lsandersonStep Up 3D (2010)
One of a series of dance showdowns in the movie “Step Up 3D,” directed by Jon M. Chu.
Happy Feet Waging Hip-Hop Battles
By MIKE HALE
Published: August 5, 2010
Spring Fever (2009)
From left, Qin Hao, Tan Zhuo and Chen Sicheng in a scene from the film “Spring Fever,” by the Chinese director Lou Ye.
Revolving-Door Romances for Modern-Day Chinese
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: August 5, 2010
One of a series of dance showdowns in the movie “Step Up 3D,” directed by Jon M. Chu.
Happy Feet Waging Hip-Hop Battles
By MIKE HALE
Published: August 5, 2010
Partway through “Step Up 3D” there’s a number unlike anything else in the movie. Set to a remix of Fred Astaire’s version of “I Won’t Dance,” blaring from an ice cream truck’s loudspeaker, it’s the film’s most conspicuous attempt to ride Astaire’s coattails and is its only memorable dance. That’s not because of the choreography, which is ho-hum, but because for a few moments the dancing helps tell the story, taking the tentative romance of Moose (Adam G. Sevani) and Camille (Alyson Stoner) a few steps further. More
Spring Fever (2009)
From left, Qin Hao, Tan Zhuo and Chen Sicheng in a scene from the film “Spring Fever,” by the Chinese director Lou Ye.
Revolving-Door Romances for Modern-Day Chinese
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: August 5, 2010
“Drunken nights without hope, like this one: I spend them wandering outside until the sky grows pale.” Those words, written in 1923 by the Chinese author Yu Dafu, serve as the epigraph for Lou Ye’s rambling, unstrung soap opera “Spring Fever.” As a voice-over murmurs the epigraph, the camera surveys the murky skyline of Nanjing, the Chinese city through which its restless young characters drift in a state of sullen heat. The tableau is one of the few reflective moments in an otherwise chaotic, distracted melodrama. More
