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Monday, July 9, 2012

7.9.2012 - News [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

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FBA: Design of Death review
Boisterous black village comedy is flawed by a weak structure and lack of a strong central core.
Offbeat portrait of a teenage lesbian crush marks a promising directorial debut. 
Biopic of 1930s Chinese writer Xiao Hong looks fabulous but lacks involving drama. 
Island mystery is an interesting calling-card for a first-time director.  
Slick, engaging thriller blends cars, crime and characterisation in a fresh way. 

TimeOutHK: Tony Leung Ka-Fai interview

CF: "People Mountain People Sea" Set to Release on August 3
It is based on a true crime in which the youngest brother of a rural family was murdered and the killer fled. Five older brothers searched half the country and finally caught him.
(Sina)

Poster for documentary about the making of Lu Chuan's "City of Life and Death"
"Matters of Life and Death"  (Sina)



Caught in the Web, a new film by Chinese mainland director Chen Kaige, is a movie about the online human flesh search. Premiering on July 6, the professional return of Chen after his focus on historical films and the topic of web violence are both becoming trending topics.

Qiao Renliang plays the leading role of Peng Da, a rag man who accidentally becomes the new boss of a luxury hotel. Lam Suet portrays Peng Da's best friend
Directed by Fu Yong and starring Francis Ng, Lam Suet, Qiao Renliang, Kent Cheng,Christy Chung and Zhou Weitong,


 Stills of Wong Jing/Marco Mak's "Naked Soldier" featuring Sammo Hung and Anthony Wong
Sammo Hung

Anthony Wong


Anthony Wong, Ankie Beilke



CF: Descent into Obscurity
The Hundred Flowers, Golden Rooster and Huabiao Awards become irrelevant.
The movie will be released in North America in 3D and 3D/IMAX formats on September 14.

Stills of Maggie Cheung and Cherie Chung in Yonfan's 1988 "Last Romance"


Cherie Chung, last week, at an event in Admiralty


For several years, the paparazzi have been trying to nail down photographic evidence of a romance between director Leon Dai and actress Guey Lun-mei.

Nicholas, who will be headlining two action movies this year, Story of the White Haired Demoness 3D and Special Rescue Squad, is said to have visited the physician to get his health back on track before filming commences for his new movies.
Has Brigitte Lin split from husband Michael Ying?
The 57-year-old’s inability to produce a son has led to speculations that she has split from her husband

Monday, September 12, 2011

9.12.2011 - News [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

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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]
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 

THR: 11 Flowers review
Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai evokes memories of provincial life prior to Mao's death

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)


TimeOutHK: Treasure Hunt review
A milk powder TV commercial disguised as a feature-length adventure comedy, Wong Jing’s latest folly is so thoroughly mediocre that anyone other than its sponsors will struggle to sit through it.
Seizing on the ongoing world banking crisis to add spin to an otherwise ho-hum crime story, Hong Kong helmer Johnnie To finds greed to be the root of all evil in his patchy "Life Without Principle." [HKMDBNews-reprint]
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

(Sina)


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.


(Sina)
And the SIGNIS Prize, a Catholic humanitarian organization award
(Sina)


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)."

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


Saturday, September 10, 2011

Venice - Deanie Ip Wins Best Actress, Cai Shangjun Best Director [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

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(Sept.10)


“People Mountain People Sea” director Cai Shangjun, and “A Simple Life” actress Deanie Yip, among other winners.
Deanie Ip 

One of Andy Lau's birthday wish comes true as Deanie Ip holds her Best Actress award for her role in A Simple Life during the winners' photo call 





Director Ann Hui poses with actress Deanie Ip as she holds her Best Actress award for her role in A Simple Life during the winners' photo call

Closing Ceremony

Director Cai Shangjun with the Silver Lion award for Best Director for the film People Mountain People Sea

Friday, September 9, 2011

9.9.2011 - News [Roast Pork Sliced From A Rusty Cleaver] (飲水思源)

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Reminder: My Kingdom AND Love in Space opens today. Check your local China Lion theater.

CF: Bleak Picture of Rural China
'People Mountain People Sea' paints a grim picture of China in its story of Lao Tie and his quest for revenge in the absence of state justice.


Deanie Ip and Andy Lau make memorable chemistry in the moving story of an amah's final lap.

An abridged, two-hour cut for international release has been shown for the world premiere at the 68th Venice International Film Festival, though Wei has stated that it diminishes his original vision. In keeping with the two-part domestic release, The China Post will review the film in two parts.


Mainland suspense-comedy gets released in a Cantonese version for southern audiences. Guangdong audiences have not been responsive to popular northern comedies such as those by Feng Xiaogang. Director Jiang Tao, who is himself Cantonese, oversaw the conversion for the Cantonese edition. (Sina)

Lau Ching-Wan, Denise Ho and Myolie Wu meet the press in Venice for Life Without Principle
Lau Ching-Wan

Denise Ho

Myolie Wu

Myolie Wu, Lau Ching-Wan, Denise Ho
(Sina)

Andy Lau celebrated an early birthday (his 50th, on Sept. 27) for the second year in a row in Venice. He had three wishes: a Best Director and Best Actress award for Ann Hui and Deanie Ip and one secret wish.
Ann Hui, Deanie Ip, Andy, Qin Hailu
(Sina), 2

TaipeiTimes: Pop Stop
Mike He decided to mark his eight sexy years in show business by revealing the full glory of his well-muscled limbs, taut buttocks and ripped six-pack.

Cecilia Cheung taped a variety show program for Shanghai TV and sang her new single.


Weeping tears of joy for support by fans

(Sina)

A1: Vincy Yeung dumps Edison Chen
Cecilia Cheung to sing again
MSN: Cecilia Cheung’s new single has the same title as Daniel Chan’s song
In other related news, Cecilia promoted her latest movie Treasure Hunt, which featured her eldest son Lucas.
The actress, who was there for only 10 minutes, slammed Wong Jing, the movie's scriptwriter cum director, for having a bad script, which resulted in Lucas changing his lines.

MSN: Ronald Cheng houses three generations under one roof
MSN: Maggie Cheung dumped?
MSN: Elaine Ng and daughter live a thrifty lifestyle
The former actress had also let on that Etta wanted to study in Harvard. In order to realise her daughter's dream, the pair had been living a thrifty lifestyle, by wearing simple clothing, eating economically, driving a fuel-saving car and living in a rural area.

Girl Next Door: Tang Wei was spotted in Beijing getting out a taxi with an assistant.  She put on a surgical mask but took it off, apparently unused to wearing one. After going to a Traditional Chinese Medicine hospital, Tang Wei stopped at kiosk to have a snack of instant noodles and bottle of water before being picked up again by another taxi.









(Xinhua)




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