July Updates:
[Interview] [07/01/08] At the 2008 HKIFF, Arnaud Lanuque met with Besieged City director Lawrence Ah Mon (AKA Laurence Lau) and they discussed the joy to work with non-professional actors in Besieged City and with the Baseball team of HK in City without Baseball . This is the transcript of the interview. NEW
June Updates:
[Festival] [06/29/08] North America biggest film genre fest The Montreal's Fantasia Festival is coming back for it's twelth edition starting on July third. Here's a preview for it from our Quebec base contributor Yves Gendron : forum link. NEW [Interview] [06/06/08]
Since the UK-based "Hong Kong Legends" label ceased its DVD release activity, Bey Logan has moved to the US-based "Dragon Dynasty" label under The Weinstein Company (TWC). DD is already developing a substantial catalog of Asian and Hong Kong film releases. Bey took time out from his busy schedule to answer some of the questions we had about his new job with DD.
May Updates:
[Obituary] [05/19/08] Two HK actors passed away Last May : Lau Chi Wing (a famous TV actor
mostly known for the RTV series"Fatherland") and Shaw Brothers actor Wong Yu (a Jimmy Wang Yu copy).
Click on their names for additional info.
[Interview] [05/07/08] In the interview we had with Patrick Tam, the director talks about the production of his most recent film, After This Our Exile, his relationship with Wong Kar-wai, his involvement with the Hong Kong New Wave, his method of working with actors like Aaron Kwok, and his own approach to the intricacies of film aesthetics within Chinese-language cinema.
[Books] [05/01/08] We write some reviews of a series of books of reference proposing film reviews, analysis or interviews. The reviewers have tried to highlight the point behind each book, as well as shedding lights on their advantages and limitations. HK Cinema Books page here.
[Interview] Blood Brothers is the first Alexi Tan's movie. It was produced by John Woo and Terence Chang. We meet the young director at the 2008 Deauville Asia Film Festival : this is the interview.
[Review] Lee Alon reviewed the average
Three Kingdoms - Resurrection Of The Dragon by Daniel Lee with Andy Lau and Maggie Q.
[HK Awards] The prestigious 2008 HK Film Awards ceremony took place on Sunday 13, April 2008, and the big winner of the night was unsurprisingly Peter Chan's The Warlords, which pocketed 8 awards. Other films multi-awarded include Derek Yee's Protégé, Yau Nat Hoi's Eye in the Sky and Ann Hui's The Postmodern Life of My Aunt. HK Films Awards 2008 winners are known. See our forum for more infos.
[Interview]
Film critic-slash-actor Paul Fonoroff is mainly famous for his gweilo work in Once Upon A Time In China 2 as the consul and his review anthology (PAUL FONOROFF AT THE HONG KONG MOVIES - 600 reviews From 1988 Till The Handover). Below, Fonoroff kindly discusses his background as well as his experience in the industry and his opinion on HK/Chinese cinema. [Obituary] A venerated Hongkongese seasoned actress, Lydia Shum was a child actress in the 60s often alongside Josephine Siao and Connie Chan.
A silver screen and local TV programme landmark, Shum has remained very present in the Hong Kong people's life in the last few years, despite a semi-retirement.
In 2006, Lydia Shum was admitted to hospital for a gall bladder cancer. The actress died at 60, in the Hong Kong Queen Mary Hospital on February 19, 2008 at 8:35 PM (local time), after 3 years of struggle against a terrible disease. Lydia Shum was very famous not only in Hong Kong but also in all Asia and in all the chinatowns around the world.
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