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...Medium-sized productions are few, meaning that up-and-coming directors are finding it hard to make the transition to mainstream features. Occasionally, established filmmakers will nurture protégés. To is producing medium-budget movies from editor and director Law Wing-cheong and screenwriter-director Yau Nai-hoi. Also nurturing talent is prolific filmmaker Eric Tsang, who produced Magic Boy, a vibrant 2007 love-triangle pic from second-time feature director Adam Wong, and Heiward Mak's recent debut High Noon, a drama of troubled youth shot with arresting flair...
...Bowie Yau Sze-lai, sales associate Hong Kong city life is pretty diverse, so your night should be too. I'd start out in Kowloon with a glass of wine at Felix, tel: (852) 2315 3188. It's a beautiful bar that overlooks the harbor from the 28th floor of Hong Kong's oldest hotel, the Peninsula. After drinks, head to Hong Kong island and the colorful shopping district of Causeway Bay. This place is very busy most evenings, mostly with a younger crowd looking for the latest fashions and accessories. Try the Island Beverly Centre or Lee Theatre Plaza...
...MISS: Sakenohana Restaurateur Alan Yau's highly anticipated Japanese eatery, with traditional cypress and slate interiors by acclaimed architect Kengo Kuma, opens in mid-September in St. James, London...
...people in Hong Kong have any idea of the wastage that Yau's death represented. "I never thought that, 10 years later, I would be sitting here talking to someone about Yau Leung," says Ng from behind a box of his unpublished prints. But surely the time has come...
...English title, Growing Up in Hong Kong, that doesn't capture the playful poetry of the original). In 1997, he published what was to be his last collection, A Hundred Changes (again, poorly translated from Chinese as City Vibrance). It was a then-and-now volume in which Yau revisited locations he had documented decades earlier in order to record the invariably startling transformations that had taken place in the interim. These books did not sell in large numbers - they simply generated a small flurry of interest in Yau's work that did not, as one would have hoped, grow...