HKStandard: Golden girl Deanie Ip takes best actress prize at Venice
Film director and producer Ng See-yuen said: "Her achievement not only gives her center stage at the top-tier film festival, it also raises the world's awareness of Hong Kong's film industry, especially for female actresses."
FBA: People Mountain People Sea
Strikingly mounted, existential tale of revenge that's let down by being over-elliptical.
Variety: People Mountain People Sea review, [HKMDBNews-reprint]Film director and producer Ng See-yuen said: "Her achievement not only gives her center stage at the top-tier film festival, it also raises the world's awareness of Hong Kong's film industry, especially for female actresses."
FBA: People Mountain People Sea
Strikingly mounted, existential tale of revenge that's let down by being over-elliptical.
A pitch-black tale of murder, corruption and almost every other conceivable form of human injustice is taken to its bleakest possible conclusions in "People Mountain People Sea."
Cai Shangjun holds up Silver Lion
FBA: The Sword Identity review
Original, lowkey satire of martial-arts codes that's too academic for its own good
The Sword Identity director Xu Haofeng
The Sword Identity - Zhao Yuanyuan, Song Yang (Sina)
There are some good ideas knocking around in Hong Kong genre auteur Johnnie To’s multi-strand financial crisis dramedy- but they’re swamped by an inept script that keeps getting bogged down in details and forgetting the big dramatic picture. [HKMDBNews-reprint]
AP: Hong Kong director focuses on financial crisis
The movie is shot in a style that is partly serious, partly caper-comic — or, as To put it, "this film is a bit realistic but also fantasy
Toronto 2011: Christian Bale's China movie previewed for buyers
Zhang Yimou's Heroes of Nanking now retitled The Flowers of War
THR: Top U.S. Buyers Get First Glimpse of Christian Bale's 'The Flowers of War'
WSJ: Zhang Yimou Previews ‘The Flowers of War’ in Toronto
FBA: Buyers get taste of Zhang's War
Too Much Heaven: Shaolin, My Kingdom, and Love In Space movie reviews (beyondasiaphilia)
Taiwanese epic film draws lukewarm reception from China
As Taiwanese enthusiastically flock to the cinema for "Seediq Bale," the biggest blockbuster this summer, reactions to the film from China had been far more muted and critical ahead of its release earlier this week.
First poster for Dante Lam's The Viral Factor, now in post-production
Stills featuring the Midlle East back drop
Deanie Ip and Ann Hui also accepted the Equal Opportunity Award at the close of the Venice Film Festival from Rosalba Veltri, Director General for Equality and Equal Opportunities. The prize goes to the work which best represents the official selection of a complaint or a message of hope with respect to the issue of discrimination, intolerance, inequality, social or gender. (Source) Andy Lau had rushed back to Hong Kong and missed the closing ceremony and awards announcements.
And the SIGNIS Prize, a Catholic humanitarian organization award
CNNGo: World's first Jackie Chan Museum to open in Shanghai
MSN: Cecilia Cheung and Lucas go on a secret holiday
MSN: Edison Chen’s girlfriend breaks up with him
Currently in New York, Edison also tried to build up a lovelorn image of himself by uploading a photo of the city with the words: "Lonely Street's of NY (sic)."
MSN: Cecilia Cheung and Lucas go on a secret holiday
MSN: Edison Chen’s girlfriend breaks up with him
Currently in New York, Edison also tried to build up a lovelorn image of himself by uploading a photo of the city with the words: "Lonely Street's of NY (sic)."
CNNGo: To hell with tradition, Hong Kong mooncake marketing at a high
Hong Kong food anthropologist unfazed by Angry Birds taking over our Mid-Autumn Festival
There's a video newsclip about the the Angry Birds moon cakes here:
ReplyDeleteAngry Birds mooncake all the rage in Hong Kong.