Things added in March, 2008
The World is Not Enough: Has Jia Zhangke Permanently Left the Art House?
"Sixth Generation" director Jia Zhangke has long been adored by art-house audiences, but in the past year his indie cred has taken a series of hits. Last June, Jia agreed to act ...
Layer Cake: producer Natacha Devillers on Shanghai Trance
From Alfred Hitchcock's East of Shanghai (1931) and Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai to the recent Shanghai Kiss, Shanghai has long captured the imaginations of foreign film enthusiasts. Consider Dutch filmmaker David ...
Constant Muse: Jia Zhangke’s leading lady Zhao Tao
In the World 世界, actress Zhao Tao 赵涛 plays a dancer at an "international" theme park, which means that one day she performs in India and the next in Africa. That role ...
Chinese movies don’t make much money…?
Chinese movies don't make any money: or at least, the only directors that make money are Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaoggang, says one real-estate investor who also dabbles in the media. This ...
The buzz around Painted Skin 《画皮》
The buzz is growing, especially after some posters were unveiled in Hong Kong at the FilMART and film festival happening right now. Lots of people talking about it, ...
Tailor Made: Chinatown’s Last Tailors
Hidden in plain view among the abundant offerings of this year's San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (which runs from March 13 to 23) was a program of four short ...
More from Hong Kong FilMART and film festival
Although there are more important things happening in China, and around the world, we've been keeping some tabs on the goings-on at the Hong Kong/Asian film festival and financing forums. But it's ...
Is the film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking any good?
I did see Nanking, which was nothing special, biut was more looking forward to seeing this Canadian film Iris Chang: The Rape of ...
Asian Film Awards and financing news
We came across some interesting tidbits in the news today. First off, Yu Lik-wai (余力為) the Hong Kong director/cinematographer that lensed most ...