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(Johnnie To photo © Laurent Koffel www.laurentkoffel.com) How did Johnnie To go from an almost unknown director in Western circles circa 2000 to one of the world’s most talked about international filmmakers today? This is the tale by Marie Jost of fanboys and cult cinema, film festivals and bitter debates waged by critics, and ultimately the embrace of Johnnie To by international film festival programmers and the academic community. Marie also analyzes how To talks about To in the Western media. As a complement, Thomas Podvin interviewed five persons living in Hong Kong, critics, academics and fanboys. They offer a Hong Kong perpective on Johnnie To and his work. A PDF version of the document is available to download on page 1.

Author(s) :	Marie Jost
Date :	28/2/2011
Type(s) :	Analysis, Food for thought, Information

Table of content

	Foreword	Page 0

	Introduction	Page 1

	From fanboy favorite to internationally acclaimed filmmaker	Page 2
	- Milkway Image and the Fanboys	Page 2
	- First Years on the Festival Circuit	Page 3
	- 100 Years of Film: Commerce and Art	Page 4
	- A Fresh Look at Johnnie To: the early retrospectives	Page 5
	- Return to Noir: A Rising Star on the International Festival Circuit	Page 6
	- The Apotheosis of Johnnie To	Page 7

	Critical darling	Page 8
	- Johnnie To and the Critics	Page 8
	- Johnnie To best films?	Page 9
	- To On-line: Critics and Professors, Fanboys and Bloggers	Page 10
	- The Academics	Page 11

	Johnnie To Story, To by To	Page 12
	- Johnnie To in his own words: The interviews	Page 12
	- The Extended Interviews	Page 13

	Books on Johnnie To	Page 14

	Addendum: The HK perspective	Page 15
	- Thomas Shin, the critic	Page 15
	- Vivian P.Y. Lee, the scholar	Page 16
	- Sebastian Yim, the postgraduate	Page 17
	- Ross Chen, the film buff	Page 18
	- Can Tse, the film enthusiast	Page 19
	- Conclusion and Thanks	Page 20

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