At a time when Stephen Chow was best known for his nonsensical comedies, The God of Cookery saw him transform as a filmmaker.
Restored versions of Chinese language cinema classics Wong Kar-wai’s “Days of Being Wild” (1990) and Jia Zhangke’s first full-length feature “Pickpocket” (“Xiao Wu”) 1998) will lead the inaugural ...
An often overlooked, yet highly impactful world cinema industry in the last few decades, Chinese cinema remains widely known in Western markets for its hard-hitting impact on action filmmaking. Yet ...
D&B films, started by watch retailer Dickson Poon, launched Michelle Yeoh's action-movie career and was known for its 'middle class values' By the mid-1980s, Hong Kong's once-powerful Shaw Brothers ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Hong Kong action films hold a special and specific place in the hearts ...
For the Hong Kong film industry, the harsh three-year-long winter of the COVID era — with multiplexes forced to close for extended periods, industry professionals losing their livelihoods, and an ...
In Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000), David Bordwell, a film-studies professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, describes the ...
GOMA’s Australian Cinémathèque will present two extraordinary programs celebrating the legacy and influence of Hong Kong cinema ...
When Anastasia Tsang was contemplating the subject matter for her first feature film, she decided to incorporate an issue that struck close to home: Hong Kong’s disappearing neon street signs. The ...
After years of steady decline, the Hong Kong film industry has released its three highest-grossing films of all time in the past six months. By Karen Chu Spring has arrived. For the Hong Kong film ...