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International Movie Night, Club Indigo to show Chinese films

By Joe Kirkish  Posted 11/16/2005 

HOUGHTON -- Joe Kirkish describes two very different Chinese films to be shown this week. The award-winning documentary Mardi Gras: Made in China will begin the MTU International Movie Night series at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 16, in Room 135 of Fisher Hall on the Michigan Tech campus. Admission is free and open to the public. This film describes the harsh working and living conditions of young Chinese women who make plastic beads, in the largest Mardi Gras bead factory in the world, for the annual Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans. On Friday, Nov. 18, at the Calumet Theatre, the Club Indigo food/film event will present another Chinese movie -- Shaolin Soccer -- written, directed and starred in by Stephen Chow, who has made an international name for himself with his satires on two famous Chinese sports: kung fu and soccer. more

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