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November 8, 2001 •
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Comments Off on Go, Johnnie To!
A UCLA Film and Television Archive & Asian Film Foundation Presentation in association with the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office in San Francisco, Tai Seng Video Marketing and Nescafé® 1+2 This retrospective celebrating Hong Kong auteur Johnnie
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April 22, 2001 •
Film, Profiles •
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Comments Off on Johnnie To Kei-Fung
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
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November 17, 2000 •
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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
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November 17, 2000 •
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Comments Off on Days of Being Wild (1990)
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
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December 3, 1999 •
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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
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April 22, 1998 •
Storytelling •
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First impression: Survived dramatic landing at Kai Tak airport. Rewarded with a humid, sticky airport. Last impression: Getting continually searched at customs… Had to stand on a box once. There was confusion at the gate as psycho tour guide Jacquelyn
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