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...project attracted Juliana Chow ‘04 to work. Although she’s only been able to attend one meeting (and make a colorfully spray-painted styrofoam skateboard), Chow attributes her interest in the project to a special interest in public art. In fact, Chow is attempting to attract fellow students to work on totally student-run public art in the coming year, possibly snow sculpture in the winter or short, 40-second plays to be staged at the intersection of JFK St. and Massachusetts Ave. during the time for crossing the street...
...years to more than $7 million. Even Hollywood is paying attention: studio execs might still have trouble finding Pusan on a map, but distributors like Miramax call Korea regularly now to find out what's coming down the pipeline. Korea doesn't yet have a John Woo or a Chow Yun-fat who can make the crossover to the Hollywood big leagues, but its industry is getting noticed. "These are very sophisticated filmmakers," says Dede Nickerson, who heads Asian acquisitions and co-productions at Miramax, which recently bought the martial arts fantasy Bi Chun Moo (Sky-Flying Martial...
...results were impressive: gnarled, noirish items like The Odd One Dies and Where a Good Man Goes. Milkyway developed a solid rep, and its house star, the sensitively sullen Lau Ching-wan, became the poor man's Chow Yun-fat. A Hero Never Dies, a blueprint for Fulltime Killer in its rivalry of two gang lieutenants, won a fistful of critics' prizes. Running Out of Time garnered Andy Lau his first Best Actor citation in the Hong Kong Film Awards. With The Mission, To was elevated to top status among Asian action auteurs. One of his first Milkyway films...
...Midas touch as far back as 1988 when The Eighth Happiness, a broad but nimble romantic comedy starring Chow as an effeminate babe magnet, was the year's top-grossing film, raking in $4.7 million. (Says To today: "I've still no idea why the movie was so successful.") Justice, My Foot!, his period comedy with Stephen Chow, earned a gigantic $6.3 million. To's two collaborations with martial-arts master Ching Siu-tung?The Heroic Trio and Executioners, with Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung as magical crime fighters?were hits in Asian theaters and in video stores...
...pinwheel of compelling, eccentric movie ideas. In the '80s they had worked together at tvb, Hong Kong's highest-rated channel. (That's also where To meet his wife Paulina; they have been married for 23 years.) Wai made his directorial debut in 1995 with Peace Hotel, a Chow Yun-fat Eastern Western whose bold, dusky style seemed indebted equally to Woo, Sergio Leone and Wong...