Showing posts with label Fei Mu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fei Mu. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

6.14.2011 - News

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Fei Mu's Confucius Restored for Posterity


CRI: Jia Zhangke Produces Surreal "Mr. Tree"
Director Han Jie inspired by Brother Sharp

CRI: Expectant Father Deng Chao Promotes "Perfect Baby"
In this lighthearted Sino-French urban romance co-production, Deng plays a Chinese student in Paris who gets himself involved in a love quadrangle when he unexpectedly becomes a dad after sperm donation.

Italian actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta will play opposite Chinese actor Huang Bo in a Sino-Italian co-produced romantic comedy "Shi Chu You Yin,"
The film will center on a romantic story between a homely Chinese chef and a beautiful Italian restaurateur. It will be shot on the Italian isle of Sicily and in China's Chengdu. 


  THR: Sunny Sky Media Unveils 'Coming Back' as First Project, Starring Simon Yam
In Coming Back, which was shot in Mandarin, Yam plays a painter who restores art to increase its value. He’s also a father of an estranged daughter struggling with two personalities, one dark and one light, reflected, Yam said, in the alternately black and pink socks he brought to his screen costumes.
Li Yuan, Annie Yi, Simon Yam

Cheng Pei-Pei



The actor has reportedly agreed on divorce, and a lawyer’s letter was sent to Cecilia Cheung

Recently, netizens dug up yet another rumour that circulated in 2008 when Cecilia was embroiled in the photo scandal with Edison Chen. It was said that the Tse family then suspected that Lucas, the couple's elder son, may not be Nicholas's biological son and they had even sent him for a DNA test to verify who his father is.

Lucas, who is your father?
Lucas (left), Nicholas (right)
Young Edison
Lucas


The Hong Kong media too speculated that the couple was busy making babies as they stayed in the hotel for four consecutive days without leaving the premise.

Chinese Spying Devices Installed on Hong Kong Cars
Real life Overheard
Smugglers were the first to note something strange about the devices. A source told Apple Daily that after the cards were installed mainland authorities had no trouble picking off the cars carrying illicit goods.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

3.10.2010 - News

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Variety Drops Chief Film and Theater Critics
On Monday, the trade let go chief film critic Todd McCarthy and chief theater critic David Rooney. Longtime film critic Derek Elley also was cut, as was features editor/indie film reporter Sharon Swart, along with several copy and design desk employees. [VarietyAsia (Patrick Frater - now with THR, Marcus Lim, Kaiju Shakedown), devoted to Asian film reporting  was shut down early last year back. Now Variety's preeminent Asian film reviewer, Derek Elley, gets the pink slip.]

2010 restored version of archival treasure "Confucius" unveiled
Master director Fei Mu's lost classic "Confucius" (1940) is an important film not only from the perspectives of film and aesthetics, but also in regard to Chinese history, culture, art history, musicology and other disciplines. The screening of its initial phase of restoration last year met with an overwhelming response. This year, based on scientific evidence from the negatives and research on available literature, the Hong Kong Film Archive (HKFA) has inserted nine minutes of loose fragments back into the film, restoring it to a condition much closer to its original glory.

Let the Bullets Fly - Ge You, Carina Lau, Feng Xiaogang, Jiang Wen
Womb Ghosts (Mar.18) - Dada, A.Lin, Chrissie Chau, Koni Lui join Lam Suet in Dennis Law's horror film.
(Sina)

Trailer for Dennis Law's Womb Ghosts brings monumental amounts of crazy.


Liu Yifei
Liu Yifei will join Louis Koo and Yu Shaoqun (New Shaolin Temple) in Wilson Yip's new version of Chinese Ghost Story to begin filming in May. (Sina)




Stills of sets in Future X-Cops




Ronald Cheng and Charlene Choi push marriage plans back

Friday, February 26, 2010

2.26.2010 - News

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Restored treasure "Confucius" on screen during International Film Festival
Screenings of director Fei Mu's lost classic, "Confucius", in its initial phase of restoration last year met with overwhelming response. The film in its second phase of restoration will be unveiled in the 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) together with other works of the great director, including the masterpiece "Spring in a Small Town". As a contribution to the HKIFF, the Hong Kong Film Archive (HKFA) has organised a retrospective "Fei Mu, Film Poet" to showcase the work of one of the greatest filmmakers of Chinese cinema. (Original article, NYTimes)

Chan's new movie also shows that it's possible to be creative within the often-soulless genre of the big-budget Chinese epic that has come to dominate the local industry.


Sometimes the punchlines were culturally specific and were delivered very quickly. They do not translate well and result in hard-to-catch subtitles. The quick fire comedic exchange between Wang's staff for instance, left non-Chinese speakers puzzled as the subtitles zoomed by. 

Dante Lam's Fire of Conscience opens Apr.1
Leon Lai plays a hot, violent detective, Richie Ren/Jen a gentle anti-drug cop



Jacky Cheung

Crossing Hennessy will be opening film at this year's HKIFF. 
Amphetamine from Taiwan will be the closing film.
Connie Chan and mother, Gung Fan-Hung (Sina)
Gung Fan-Hung (c) with Lydia Shum, Nancy Sit, Connie Chan
Connie Chan's adoptive mother and mentor Gung Fan-Hung died after suffering chest pains while attending Connie Chan's concert at Hong Kong Coliseum on the evening of Feb.24. She was 98 years old. In 1953, Gung and her husband Chan Fai-Lung opened the Hong Kong Cantonese Opera Academy and nurtured talent such as Ng Kwan-Lai. (Sina)


Connie Chan performed last night despite her grief. She was greeted with warm applause by fans.
Earlier, Connie told the media, 'Mommy, since childhood, taught me everyone should play their part and perform their duties.'



Connie Chan held a brief press conference and said she would announce funeral plans after completing work.


New Swordsman from Yuen Wo-Ping featuring Daniel Wu, Zhou Xun, Li Bingbing, Huang Xiaoming? (Xinhua)
Zhou Xun and Huang Xiaoming are also rumored to be leaving Huayi Brothers when their contracts expire to join Peter Lam's Media Asia. (Xinhua)


Cherie Chung




Cherie Chung shot new photo adverts for a collagen center promoting the 'secret of youth' (!)

Jennifer Tse Ting-Ting's new slimming advert