Tag: Hong Kong Cinema

Interview: Soi Cheang – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

We sat with director Soi Cheang to talk about his latest film, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, which premiered in the Midnight section...

World Cinema Report: Hong Kong – Most Anticipated for 2023

Hong Kong cinema got a much-needed shot of exuberance and enthusiasm in 2022 after a bleak state at the height of the pandemic. The...

Interview: Philip Yung – Where the Wind Blows

In anticipation for the upcoming 95th Academy Awards, I chatted with Philip Yung, whose film Where the Wind Blows (previously known as Theory Of Ambitions)...

Video Interview: Jimmy Wan & Hon Siu Ching – Zero to Hero

Hong Kong's official submission for the 'Best International Feature' category at the 94th Academy Awards is Jimmy Wan's Zero to Hero, a biopic on...

No.7 Cherry Lane | 2019 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Revew

Remembrance of Things Cats: Yonfan Sketches a Rebellious Love Letter in Animated Debut The multifaceted Yonfan returns to feature filmmaking for the first time in...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #49. Luz – Flora Lau

Luz Hong Kong filmmaker Flora Lau finds her sophomore film Luz headlined by none other than Isabelle Huppert. Produced through AMA Productions, the Chinese-French co-pro...

Criterion Collection: Dragon Inn (1967) | Blu-ray Review

If martial arts could be spliced into opera, it would look something like King Hu’s 1967 cult classic Dragon Inn, the second of his...

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Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.