Word: tsui
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First things first: it's pronounced Choy Hock. As in Tsui Hark, the man who for two decades has been Hong Kong cinema's pre-eminent creative force. His best movies are made with such verve and craft that the viewer's head practically explodes with the concentration they require, the pleasure they bring. And at 50, Tsui hasn't slowed up. Just the first two minutes of his new Time and Tide--the first Hong Kong film he has directed in five years--are breathlessly virtuosic, using slo-mo and rapid cuts and neck-swiveling pans to impart enough...
...audiences, it's a smart introduction to Hong Kong's top auteur-entrepreneur. New Yorkers can get a banquet of Tsui, with retrospectives starting May 25 at Manhattan's Anthology Film Archives and Brooklyn's Plaza Twin, and spiffy prints of his Once Upon a Time in China I and II on view at Manhattan's Film Forum...
...ping, Cheung-yan, Chun-yeung (a.k.a. Brandy), Sun-yi (Sunny) and Yat-choh. Among them, these two extended families have won 13 of the 18 Hong Kong Film Awards for best action choreography. Wo-ping got one for the epochal grudge matches between Donnie Yen and Jet Li in Tsui Hark's Once Upon a Time in China...