Culture
Category Archive
February 22, 2005 •
Culture, Film, Lifestyle •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on Forty-five Screens and Nothing to Watch
Take the time. Support good film. Because if we have another year where “Taxi” is #1 in its first week out, I’ll be looking for you. And I fight dirty. Sun Star Online by Alex Grantham I don’t think the public understands how the movie industry really works. I know, I know, the word “industry”; …
Read More
July 23, 2003 •
Culture, Film, Lifestyle •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on Asian Values Via The Movies
If we base what we know of the people of Hong Kong only on what is portrayed in Cantonese movies and television soap operas, they would be the most unlikely people on earth to come out for mass demonstrations, marches and candle-light vigils. Malaysiakini.com
August 22, 2002 •
Culture, Lifestyle •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on It Runs East-West
Sawtelle may be a north-south street on the map, but for many homesick young Asians, it goes straight to the heart. CalendarLive The pack of young women stationed outside FuRaiBo, a Japanese-style pub or izaka-ya on West Los Angeles’ Sawtelle Boulevard,
January 3, 1999 •
Culture, Film, Lifestyle •
Vogue Fish •
Comments Off on Hong Kong Film Basics (1999)
Why are they all subtitled? Hong Kong films are made in Cantonese by an industry whose primary audience is in Hong Kong, the rest of Asia second. The fact that the rest of the world has discovered these films and continues to watch them does not appear to be