Screen Daily: A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop (A Simple Noodle Story)
Playing more like a slapstick version of the Coen brothers’ classic Blood Simple than a remake, Zhang Yimou’s latest moves the action back a few hundred years and switches location to the spectacularYellow Earth landscapes of Northern China.
Variety: A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Variety: A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
For the record, pic's international version is four minutes shorter than that released in China and Hong Kong.
Chinese remake of Coen brothers classic screens in Berlin
Chinese remake of Coen brothers classic screens in Berlin
Asian-American director Arvin Chen’s boy-meets-girl romance coasts along on sheer goofy sweetness. A brightly-coloured Before Sunrise in Taiwanese screwball sauce with just a pinch ofUmbrellas Of Cherbourg thrown in, it does little except charm, seduce and mildly amuse. But it does so with enough grace and storytelling skill to keep most audiences hooked though to the end, even though the sugar-rush wears off pretty soon after leaving the cinema.
It's the kind of larger-spanned movie that Taiwan should be attempting if the island's industry is ever to get back on its feet again. Niu's gamble looks to be repaid -- at least locally -- with "Monga" strong-arming a brawny $1.6 million in its first week since bowing Feb. 5.
Six movie stars -- playing themselves -- gather for a Vogue photo shoot in a Seoul studio in "The Actresses," a talky but involving fakumentary that continually plays with the thin dividing line between reality and fiction. Hardly the catfight it's expected to be, this cheekiest outing yet from writer-director E J-yong is a funny, sometimes surprisingly touching exploration of the role of actresses in South Korea's still socially proscribed film world, though considerable knowledge of local showbiz and the thesps themselves is necessary to get the most from the movie. Asia-friendly fests should extend invites to these broads.
Variety: I'm In Trouble (South Korea)
Korean Academy of Film Arts alum So Sang-min makes a promising feature debut with "I'm in Trouble!," a charmingly modest talking-eating-drinking movie -- carved from the same rockface as helmers like Hong Sang-soo, Emmanuel Mouret and Woody Allen -- in which a bunch of likable, indecisive losers endlessly repeat the same emotional mistakes.
Based on a novel by one of Japan’s most acclaimed fiction writers of the 20th century, ‘Villon’s Wife’ possesses a cinematic presence rarely achieved by literary adaptations
All's Well Ends Well Too 2010
Ronald Cheng, Raymond Wong, Louis Koo, Sandra Ng
Raymond Wong
Sandra Ng
Ronald Cheng, Louis Koo
(Xinhua)
(Xinhua)
Jacky Cheung
Jacky Cheung promoting his new CD Private Corner on a TV program
Chrissie Chau
Chrissie Chau will celebrate Valentine's Day with boyfriend Avis
(Sina)
Liza Wang, Law Kar-Ying
AngelaBaby
James Parry, AngelaBaby (Sina)
Donnie Yen (Sina)
Rainie Yang (Sina)
Faye Wong - CCTV Spring Gala Festival
Sandra Ng has no time to go online
Jackie Chan backs Vivian Hsu's Jap comeback
Zhang Ziyi - Chinese art of reveling in another's pain
With so many in Taiwan’s celebrity firmament embroiled in scandals over the past few years, 2010 may turn out to be the year when some turn to religion to change their evil ways. But don’t count on it.
Shannon Lee at Hollywood Madame Tussauds
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