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Mixing business with pleasure: Johnnie To’s DRUG WAR
Drug War (2012). DB here: At first glance, Drug War (2012) seems an unusual film for Johnnie To Kei-fung and his Milkyway Image company to make. For one thing, this Mainland production lacks the...
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VIFF 2013 finale: The Bold and the Beautiful, sometimes together
Gebo and the Shadow (2012). DB here: I’m a little late catching up with our viewings at the Vancouver International Film Festival this year (it ended on the 11th), but I did want to signal some of the...
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Picking up the pieces; or, a Blog about previous blogs
A not-so-intimate bedroom scene from Cinerama Holiday (1955). DB here: Many of our blog entries are written in response to current events–a new movie, a film festival in progress, a development in...
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Genre ≠ Generic
The Shape of Night (Nakamuro Noboru, 1964). DB here: I didn’t plan it that way, but it turns out that a great many films I saw at this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival would have to be...
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PHK 2.0 sighted in Manhattan
PTU (2003). On Saturday 19 February, at 2:30, the Museum of Chinese in America will host a conversation with me. Ken Smith, the Asian arts critic for the Financial Times, and I will talk about Hong...
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Milkyway’s fine romance
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart. DB here, from the Hong Kong Film Festival: First, news. The Asian Film Awards, presented in a glitzy ceremony Monday, held some surprises. Confessions from Japan and Let...
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Observations on Filmart (This is not a typo)
A modest display at Filmart, Hong Kong Convention Centre. DB here, channeling an apparently apocryphal Soupy Sales line: Kids, what starts with f and ends in art? No, not that. It’s Filmart, the...
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PRINCIPLE, with interest
DB here, still at the Vancouver International Film Festival: The Milkyway films of Johnnie To Kei-fung have resisted some of the fancier tactics of contemporary cinema, such as self-correcting...
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Little stabs at happiness 4: Hitmen, with a side of sukiyaki
A Hero Never Dies (1998). DB here: Again, with apologies to Ken Jacobs, I offer another clip that pleases me in this long, hot summer. For earlier installments, go here, here, and here. Johnnie To...
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PLANET HONG KONG comes to . . . Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Film Critics Society has just published a Chinese long-form translation of the second edition of my Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment. It can be ordered from...
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