I should've bought the Shah Rukh Khan basmati.

Although he'll be mostly remembered as a character actor, Lau Siu-ming was first and foremost a renowned ballet dancer. He choreographed one of my favourite scenes ever, one that I think is unique in Hong Kong cinema: a dance that appears as a dream in Chor Yuen's 1968 screwball comedy Rhapsody.

Although he'll be mostly remembered as a character actor, Lau Siu-ming was first and foremost a renowned ballet dancer. He choreographed one of my favourite scenes ever, one that I think is unique in Hong Kong cinema: a dance that appears as a dream in Chor Yuen's 1968 screwball comedy Rhapsody.

Shaw Brothers star Chen Kuan-tai has passed away. From Susan Shaw's Facebook: "The best film—Gallants. Tai, have a safe journey! In the end, you still owe me an answer: where did you hide all that money you made? Say hello to Bruce for me when you see him."

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Anyone who uploads a shitty AI filtered poster with made-up English text to Letterboxd should be fired into the sun.

Sure, whatever.

You can now watch the talk I gave at QAGOMA's In the Mood for Maggie Cheung retrospective last year online. As usual, I decided to fly close to the sun, running through her entire career while also framing it against the story of Hong Kong cinema itself. youtu.be/eUIfPITIXio

Film Talk/ As Years Go By: Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong’s Radiant Star

YouTube video by QAGOMA

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You can now watch the talk I gave at QAGOMA's In the Mood for Maggie Cheung retrospective last year online. As usual, I decided to fly close to the sun, running through her entire career while also framing it against the story of Hong Kong cinema itself. youtu.be/eUIfPITIXio

Film Talk/ As Years Go By: Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong’s Radiant Star

YouTube video by QAGOMA

youtu.be

Kung Fu Soccer is Stephen Chow's From Vegas to Macau if Wong Jing made those movies in his 2000s slop era alongside The Spy Dad and Kung Fu Mahjong, except it's 2026 now and the only people giving Chow money is the Tourism Bureau of Shenzhen during a forced meme A.I. arms race.

What came to mind now Johnnie To's making a Canadian movie: "When Ringo [Lam] was in Canada, he would write me letters sometimes, telling me just how bored stiff he was over there. He once took a photo beside a large pond and sent it to me, saying this is what it's like when you can't make movies."

In dialogue with Dr Andy Lau (Special Guest: Dr Ann Hui)

Student writer John Woo's top ten films of 1970, in no particular order, from the Chinese Student Weekly (29/1/1971): (1) Zabriskie Point (2) Z (3) The Damned (4) Woodstock (5) Cul-de-sac (6) M*A*S*H (7) Midnight Cowboy (8) Women in Love (9) Contempt (10) Medium Cool

Happy 20th anniversary to "Kemonozume", the most underrated Masaaki Yuasa's anime. First aired on August 5, 2006.

Hooting and hollering as Ultraman does a HK spin in front of the giant monster.

It's been reported that Grace Chang, Hong Kong's preeminent Mandarin screen diva of the 50s, passed away this afternoon, one day shy of her 93rd birthday. Watch Mambo Girl and The Wild, Wild Rose to see her at the height of her powers.

Rare Jackie Chan sighting in Hong Kong yesterday at Nansun Shi's memorial service. Always fascinated by who in Hong Kong he'll still give face to, a list I'm sure gets shorter and shorter each passing year.

The comments section for news about Nansun Shi's memorial service is all prayer hands emojis or some variation of "Tsui Hark is a piece of shit".

Hey, they restored Dennis Yu's The Imp, one of my favourite Hong Kong New Wave pictures.

RIP Nansun Shi. I feel framing her as a film producer undercuts her actual work though, which was primarily in distribution and administration, the non-creative side of the business of movies that's kinda boring but is ultimately what keeps it all afloat.

Walking into a shop and buying Shinji Aoyama's EUREKA like I'm in some AI slop nostalgia video about going to the video store or the mall.

The BFI and Variety with competing translations of Jia Zhangke's Tony Rayns Weibo post.

Tony Rayns trying to pull a dude in Stanley Kwan's Hold You Tight (1998)

RIP Tony Rayns, one of the few English-language critics who genuinely knew what they were talking about (most of the time) when it came to East Asian cinema, especially Hong Kong's.

When stuff gets released specifically for me.

Small update to my long drawn-out Patrick Tam translation project in light of the recent passing of Taiwanese actor Pai Ying: 'Death of a Hitman', the 8th episode of Hong Kong New Wave adjacent 1975 anthology series Superstar Special. Link after the jump.

Small update to my long drawn-out Patrick Tam translation project in light of the recent passing of Taiwanese actor Pai Ying: 'Death of a Hitman', the 8th episode of Hong Kong New Wave adjacent 1975 anthology series Superstar Special. Link after the jump.

This transition and crane shot in Ocarina of Time, man...

I wrote about Ringo Lam and his seminal On Fire trilogy for Metrograph. Their Ringo Lam series starts today, and includes both Prison on Fire and Full Contact on 35mm. metrograph.com/ringo-lam-on...

Ringo Lam on Fire - Journal - Metrograph

On how Ringo Lam’s scorchingly impassioned action cinema returned Hong Kong cinema to the mean streets.

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