Dylan Cheung talks about actor Maggie Cheung, discussing her career in parallel with the history of the Hong Kong film industry. “Writer-translator Dylan Cheung joins us to discuss the life and career of Maggie Cheung as part of our cinema program ‘In the Mood for Maggie Cheung’, exploring […]
At KPBS, friend of the Gutter Beth Accomando talks about Wong Kar-Wai’s In The Mood For Love (Hong Kong, 2000) on its 25th anniversary. “In the Mood for Love turns 25 this year, so I dug back into my archives for this tribute to the Hong Kong art […]
Sight & Sound interviews director Wong Kar-Wai on the 25th anniversary of In The Mood For Love (Hong Kong, 2000). “The film that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 25 years ago, on 20 May 2000, was not the one that Wong Kar Wai had envisaged when he […]
Back in the day, HK studios assumed films with male leads couldn’t cut it in the theaters. So during the 1960s spy era, Hong Kong had Jane Bond films featuring masked spies in catsuits way before Maggie Cheung in Irma Vep. TarsTarkas gathers the resources all in one […]
This is a nice mash up of wuxia, kung fu and (mostly) HK gun action.