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...ARTS Music: China's Woodstock Movies: Hollywood Hong Kong Interview: Director Fruit Chan Books: Life of Pi Books: My Jihad...
...ARTS Music: China's Woodstock Movies: Hollywood Hong Kong Interview: Director Fruit Chan Books: Life of Pi Books: My Jihad...
...ARTS Music: China's Woodstock Movies: Hollywood Hong Kong Interview: Director Fruit Chan Books: Life of Pi Books: My Jihad...
...Indie director Fruit Chan established himself with gritty films about the "real" Hong Kong, the dingy city beneath the skyscrapers. From the washed-up triads of The Longest Summer to the street urchin of Little Cheung, Chan's characters scrape the depths to survive, aided by just enough street humor to make life tolerable. With its menagerie of losers leavened by twisted romance, Hollywood Hong Kong is a lighter film, literally, than its predecessors. By day the sun shines through the tin roofs and sultry shacks of the Chus' shantytown in the New Territories, and by night a lunar white...
...movie is Zhou's first outside of mainland China, but her luscious portrayal of Tong Tong, a woman by turns wide-eyed and desperate, shanghais the show. That's no mean feat for an ingenue, and except for Zhou and Glen Chin, all the film's actors are amateurs Chan plucked from the street. Despite the director's deft touch with comic characters, not all manage watchable performances. Chin's gruff, soulful Chu is a match for Tong Tong, and Leung earns kudos as the least annoying fat kid in recent Chinese cinema. But Ho's Ming does little more...