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October 3, 2001 •
Events, Film •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on Hong Kong Neon 2001
UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, San Francisco present Hong Kong Neon Filmmakers such as Lawrence Ah Mon and Stanley Kwan who remained in Hong Kong during this period have continued to stretch and produce brilliantly personal work. In the depth of the pre-millennial doldrums, producer-director Johnnie To …
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August 29, 2001 •
Film, Korea, Reviews •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on Turning Gate (2002)
director Hong Sang-Soo With each picture Hong Sang-Soo comes nearer and nearer to creating reality on the movie screen. Turning Gate, his fourth picture, is the most realistic to date. In it, a failing actor has consecutive love affairs with two very
April 22, 2001 •
Film, Profiles •
Vogue Fish •
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Born in Hong Kong in 1955, Johnnie To began his career with Hong Kong’s biggest television station, TVB, in 1973. In 1989 he directed the hit father/son flick ALL ABOUT AH LONG, starring Chow Yun-fat. To also directed the classic HEROIC TRIO starring
November 17, 2000 •
Film, Profiles •
Vogue Fish •
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Born in Canton 1951 but raised in the Chinese section of Saigon, Tsui Hark filmed his first 8mm short at age 8. Hark migrated to Hong Kong at 14 and later studied film at the University of Austin, Texas. His first movie was “Butterfly Murders,” a
November 17, 2000 •
Film, Reviews •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on Night On the Galactic Railroad (1985)
Country: Japan Director: Gisaburo Sugii Producer: Masato Hara Writer: Minoru Betsuyaku Cast: Mayumi Tanaka as Giovanni and Chika Sakamoto as Campanella Running Time: 113 Min Plot: On the night of a cat village’s Festival of the Stars, a kitten and
November 17, 2000 •
Film, Reviews •
Vogue Fish •
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director Wong Kar-Wai Color 94 min Wong Kar-Wai purists still love Days of Being Wild best. Why, I don’t know. The film is beautiful, all right. Sometimes even indescribably beautiful. But the story, such as it is, moves so slowly, focusing on the
March 31, 2000 •
Events, Film •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on Fat Rules: The Films of Chow Yun Fat
Asian Film Foundation Presents The Films of Hong Kong Darling Chow Yun-Fat The Event You may only know Chow from his Hollywood films. You may only know Chow from his Hong Kong actioners. But you don’t know Chow Yun-Fat at all. On March 31st and April 7th,
December 3, 1999 •
Film, Reviews •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on He’s A Woman She’s A Man (1994)
Director Peter Chan Ho-sun earned great commercial success with this gender bending comedy, which earned Anita Yuen Wing-yee her second straight best actress trophy at the 1994 Hong Kong Film Awards. Here, Yuen stars as Wing, a gleeful girl who attends a male