Directed by Ann Hui and written by Ivy Ho, who actually won a number of awards for her work, “July Rhapsody” presents a portrait of middle life crisis, by additionally including a rather interesting back story that finds its parallels in the present.
July Rhapsody will be screening in Canada and the US starting May 11th, while it will be coming out on home video in September, courtesy of Cheng Cheng Films
Lam and Ching have been married for 20 years and have two sons. While their relationship is smooth, Lam feels that his friends, who have found financial success in the entertainment and business sectors, are more accomplished than him, and their belittling every time they meet does not help. Lam is a teacher of classic Chinese literature at an elite school, and is happy with his job actually, but there is an issue there too. A rather beautiful, smart,...
July Rhapsody will be screening in Canada and the US starting May 11th, while it will be coming out on home video in September, courtesy of Cheng Cheng Films
Lam and Ching have been married for 20 years and have two sons. While their relationship is smooth, Lam feels that his friends, who have found financial success in the entertainment and business sectors, are more accomplished than him, and their belittling every time they meet does not help. Lam is a teacher of classic Chinese literature at an elite school, and is happy with his job actually, but there is an issue there too. A rather beautiful, smart,...
- 4/24/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
London East Asia Film Festival (Leaff) is back with a diverse programme from East and Southeast Asia, including international and UK premieres. Seven strands runs throughout the festival: Official Selection, Competition, Documentary Competition, Actor Focus: Lee Jung-Jae, Filmmaker Focus: Cinematographer Mark Lee, Classics Restored and Halloween Horror Special.
The festival screenings and events will take place at five venues around London. Following the Opening Gala at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on 19th October, Leaff will continue for 11 days at Odeon Luxe West End, the Cinema at Selfridges, Chiswick Cinema and the Cinema Museum in London! Squid Game star, Lee Jung-Jae will be attending Leaff for the Opening Gala screening of “Hunt”.
Leaff aims to champion the growing collaboration in East Asian filmmaking with a philosophy that marks a shift in the cinematic landscape of East Asia, and moves away from cultural and cinematic borders. The Festival vision is to bring a much wider,...
The festival screenings and events will take place at five venues around London. Following the Opening Gala at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on 19th October, Leaff will continue for 11 days at Odeon Luxe West End, the Cinema at Selfridges, Chiswick Cinema and the Cinema Museum in London! Squid Game star, Lee Jung-Jae will be attending Leaff for the Opening Gala screening of “Hunt”.
Leaff aims to champion the growing collaboration in East Asian filmmaking with a philosophy that marks a shift in the cinematic landscape of East Asia, and moves away from cultural and cinematic borders. The Festival vision is to bring a much wider,...
- 9/25/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
As the wave of J-horror was slowly dying down with the last of the Us-American remakes making their way to the cinemas, of course, other film industries wanted to get their hands on the commercial opportunities. However, apart from copying the usual formula, adding a creepy, long-haired girl as the monster and relying on the early 2000s skepticism towards modern technology, others wanted to go different ways. One of those examples is Leste Chen’s 2005 effort “The Heirloom”, or “Zhai bian” which is its original title, that tells a story defined mostly by the use of an uncanny atmosphere, dread and impressive visuals. Even though the film has its narrative flaws, the overall outcome is quite interesting as it points at a tradition of horror that goes as far back the stories of a family curse, which lie at the heart of “Fall of the House of Usher” and other...
- 6/30/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Mark Lee Ping-Bing, long-time Hou Hsiao-hsien collaborator (including his most recent film, the stunning The Assassin) and cinematographer of the luminous In the Mood For Love (alongside Christopher Doyle and Pung-Leung Kwan), is back with a new feature this year. Crosscurrent, directed by Yang Chao, picked up the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement at the Berlin International Film Festival, and it’ll get a U.S. release starting this week.
“The core of the film is surreal, almost supernatural—a man and a woman from a different time and space travel against each other, progressively and retrogressively at the same,” says Yang Chao. The U.S. trailer has now arrived, which shows off the ravishing imagery as we journey up the Yangtze. Check it out below, along with the poster.
Mysterious, sublime and elegiac, director Yang Chao’s odyssey blends breathtaking images with fantasy, poetry and history to create a complex magical universe.
“The core of the film is surreal, almost supernatural—a man and a woman from a different time and space travel against each other, progressively and retrogressively at the same,” says Yang Chao. The U.S. trailer has now arrived, which shows off the ravishing imagery as we journey up the Yangtze. Check it out below, along with the poster.
Mysterious, sublime and elegiac, director Yang Chao’s odyssey blends breathtaking images with fantasy, poetry and history to create a complex magical universe.
- 10/25/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
We’re nearly fifteen years into the 21st century and despite the frequent predictions of the implosion of cinema, the industry and medium is still going strong. While much has been made recently about the end of celluloid, a great deal of the best cinematic work in the past decade has been captured photochemically in addition to digitally as a new video on Vimeo can attest. Edited by Erick Lee, this roughly six-minute long video pays tribute to some the best cinematographers working today. In an attempt to maintain uniformity throughout the video as well as not wishing to crop any of the images, Lee culled shots from films with an aspect ratio of 2.40:1 by luminaries that include Christopher Doyle, Pung-Leung Kwan, S. Ravi Varman,Frank Giebe, John Toll, Wally Pfister, Roger Deakins, Anthony Dod Mantle, Paul Cameron, Emmanuel Lubezki, J. Michael Muro, Robert Richardson, Florian Ballhaus,John R.,...
- 4/1/2014
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
2009 Golden Horse Awards 2009 Golden Horse nominations: Oct. 07, 2009 2009 Golden Horse winners: Nov. 28, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category) No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti directed by Leon Dai Best Film * No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti Luminoso Film Co., Ltd., Partyzoo Film Co., Ltd. Cow United Star Crazy Racer Beijing Film Studio, Warner China Film Hg Corporation, Beijing Guoli Changsheng Movies & TV Productions Co., Ltd Face Homegreen Films Like a Dream Beijing PolyBona Film Distribution Co., Ltd., Arc Light Film Company Limited, Bona Entertainment Company Limited, Lunar Films Company Limited The Outstanding Taiwanese Film of the Year Let The Wind Carry Me – The Fleeting Moments of Mark Lee Chiang Hsiu Chiung. Kwan Pun Leung. Tony Luo * No [...]...
- 11/28/2009
- by Irene Young
- Alt Film Guide
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