China Has a Change of Heart on Filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The 1997 movie Seven Years in Tibet was banned in China, and its director Jean-Jacques Annaud barred from entering the country. A decade later, China came to Annaud and asked him to direct Wolf Totem, an epic Chinese movie. Annaud tells us what changed.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center. Every week, join Rich Lowry, Bob Shear and me for a contentious yet civilized debate of the week's big political stories, from ISIS to the U.S. economy to this 47 candidate presidential election we're having. You can find Left, Right and Center on KCRW's iTunes page.
0:17.8	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:24.7	They smiled and they said China has changed, and they said, you know, also we are pragmatic
0:30.0	people.
0:31.0	We don't know how to do the sort of movie you do.
0:34.1	Therefore, we think you're the right person, and we need you.
0:39.2	French filmmakers Jean-Jacquesquenot's 1997 film, seven years in Tibet, was banned in China,
0:45.0	and he was told to stay out too. Years later, Chinese producers came to A No with a request to make
0:51.1	a movie in China. Wolf Totem is now China's Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film,
0:57.3	and No tells us what changed, what you need to know, to make a hit in China,
1:01.0	and how he managed a whole lot of wolves.
1:06.0	But first on the news banter, Colbert is back, and awards season is underway. Stay tuned. It's the
1:12.4	business from KCRW. I am joined by my banter buddy, Michael Schneider, of TV Guide magazine. Hello,
1:22.2	Mike. Hi, Kim. As we are speaking, tell your ride is over and Toronto is getting underway. So awards season,
1:28.9	it's just going to be six months. Can we get through television award season first, Kim?
1:32.8	No, we cannot. Not yet. We will get to the Emmys in about a week or so. Okay.
1:37.8	So, you know, this telluride seems to have been fairly well stuffed with movies that are perceived as being an Oscar contention. We can just talk a little bit about a few. I'd say based on the people I've talked to who were
1:49.1	there, who watched a lot of these movies, Black Mass, and this is the Whitey Bulger story,
1:54.6	starring Johnny Depp, an almost unrecognizable Johnny Depp as this mobster.
1:59.6	It seems to be by consensus the movie that people are
2:01.6	really liking. I mean, I'm hearing so much about a great performance in this movie or a great
2:05.9	performance in that movie, but Black Masked, they're actually talking not just about Johnny Depp,
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