Here is the third and final part of the Made in Hong Kong booklet I mentioned here.

Hong Kong Cinema: Taking on the Worldby Roger Garcia ( Read more... )

This is part 2 of the Made in Hong Kong booklet that I mentioned here.

The Little Cinema That Could: Hong Kong Films on World Screens
by David Bordwell

When Sofia Coppola accepted the Academy Award for Lost in Translation in 2004, she credited Wong Kar-wai as a filmmaker who had inspired her. Probably few television viewers recognized the name, ( Read more... )

When I went to see Perhaps Love last night at the Freer/Sackler Galleries, which together comprise the Smithsonian Museums of Asian Art (my favorite DC museums) at the 11th Annual Hong Kong Film Festival, they had a lovely booklet, Made in Hong Kong, that has some nice material in it. I will be transcribing the contents because I think they might ( Read more... )