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• CINEMA: "Deeply troubling" rags-to-riches story: Mao's Last Dancer ...

  News Weekly - Found Nov. 19, 2009 As his mother, Joan Chen plays a cameo role that almost steals the movie.

• Autumn in New York

  Art for art's sake - Found Nov. 1, 2009 Joan Chen directed this romantic drama from 2000 about a doomed relationship beween a successful restaurant owner (Richard Gere) and a...

• Abbas Kiarostami, Deepa Mehta among MEIFF jurors

  Screendaily - Found Oct. 4, 2009 Narrative jurors are Joan Chen, producer Sunil Doshi, director Mohamed Khan, director Nayla Al Khaja and producer Michael Fitzgerald.

• Second Life

  Houston Press - Found Sep. 24, 2009 Flower' by her comrades because she so closely resembles the heroine of the 1979 movie that made Joan Chen a star. She's played byJoan Chen.

• Mao's Last Dancer

  Tasmanian Examiner - Found Oct. 7, 2009 The boy is soon ripped from his doting mother (Joan Chen, playing a peasant woman with perfect teeth) to a harsh life at the Beijing Dance... Mao's Last Dancer - Cooma Monaro Express Explore All

• Mao's Last Dancer

  Sydney Morning Herald - Found Oct. 4, 2009 The boy is soon ripped from his doting mother (Joan Chen, playing a peasant woman with perfect teeth) to a harsh life at the Beijing Dance... Mao's Last Dancer - Brisbane Times Explore All

• Pointe of no return

  Sydney Morning Herald - Found Oct. 1, 2009 1982, so he's an old friend now.' MAO'S LAST DANCER Director Bruce Beresford Stars Chi Cao, Joan Chen, Kyle MacLachlan, Aden Young Rated PG... Pointe of no return - Brisbane Times Explore All

• Toronto market brimming with recent sales

  Hollywood Reporter - Found Oct. 19, 2009 Ondine,' starring Colin Farrell, the Michael Douglas starrer 'Solitary Man' and Bruce Beresford's 'Mao's Last Dancer,' which stars Joan Chen.

• 'Mao's Last Dancer' inspires with his leaps and honest grounding

  Japan Times - Found Oct. 24, 2009 ... and, in the film, Joan Chen's portrayal of his indomitable mother and Shuangbao Wang's performance as the tough father are deeply moving.

• The natural

  The Australian - Found Oct. 23, 2009 ... his head millimetres from mine - "maybe intimate isn't the right word." Less challenging was a scene where Joan Chen (as Li's mother) and...