Hoping to capitalize on the popularity of drama, action, and intrigue in exotic settings peddled by HBO’s Game of Thrones and to broaden its appeal to international viewers as it...
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Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker Fruit Chan’s (陳果) The Midnight After (那夜凌晨，我坐上了旺角開往大埔的紅van / 那夜凌晨，我坐上了旺角开往大埔的红van, literally “That midnight, I got on a red public light bus that headed from Mong Kok to Tai...
If college football isn’t your thing and you can’t find anything to watch on Netflix but you really don’t want to leave the house because of the shopping crowds, here...
Before the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement (now in its fifth week) occupied business districts in Hong Kong, the former British colony visibly expressed its desire for autonomy from Beijing under the “One Country,...
生日快乐! to Brokeback Mountain, Life of Pi, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon director Ang Lee (李安) who celebrated his 60th birthday yesterday. We were really psyched that he was slated to direct a 3D...
Following a path similar to directors Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club; Soul of the Banquet) and Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Brokeback Mountain; Life of Pi), a generation of filmmakers who...
Baffled and dissatisfied by Chinese American food? Yeah? Well, so was Cecilia Chiang (江孫芸) when she arrived in San Francisco in 1958 and decided that she was going introduce real...
Beginning September 12, the Museum of the Moving Image presents Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien, a comprehensive month-long retrospective of the works of Hou Hsiao-hsien (??? /...
The Sandstorm (??? / ???), a dystopian sci-fi short film starring Ai Weiwei (???) as a water smuggler has been released after an uncertain future following a dispute between the...
“The films that we could see at the time were Cantonese opera films or comedies that no one laughed at. Many people ask me was Cantonese film facing its end?...