editorials
Drunken Monkey
We were expecting better for the come back of the Shaw Brothers. This new Liu Chia-Liang's movie is not bad, but it looks old fashioned with very average directing, music and cinematography. Hopefully, the kung-fu part is still very convincing. It will surely please fans of old-school kung-fu, but also leave them without the taste of genuine SB movies.
Double Tap
Two recent movies are reviewed this week. The first one (
Happy Go Lucky) is dealing with handicapped persons, with some interesting points but Francois and Alain were not totally convinced. On the contrary,
Truth or Dare is much more convincing, and provides some good laughs. Francois also reviewed the DVD for the first of the two.
Venice Festival: Floating Landscape Special Edition, second part
To finish this special edition about the only Hong Kong movie selected at the Venice Festival, we add two interviews with two of the most promising young actors in Asia. The first one is Liu Ye, already seen in Lan Yu, who was interviewed by Alain in the car to the airport. The second one is Karena Lam, best supporting actress and young talent at the HK Award 2002, interviewed by Francois. Enjoy!
Venice Festival: Floating Landscape preview, part 1
The 60th Venice Festival just begun today, and we will have a closer look at one of the asian movies competing there:
Floating Landscape, directed by Carol Lai, with a nice cast and a comfortable budget. To begin, a presentation by Alain, a little portrait of the director, as well as a long interview with her, and of course the files for her two movies. More will follow by the end of the week..
Spécial Night Corridor
A special edition this week, with a coverage of the release of
Night Corridor. This small production will be shown on screens in Hong-Kong from the 21st of August.
You can already read our reviews, an introduction by the director himself, as well as an interview with him , a small portrait and two reviews of his first movie. Plus a short interview with Daniel Wu about his work on the movie. Enjoy!
