Allen Fong
1947 (77 лет)
Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns
Ron Orders
Tony Rayns, Li Cheuk-To
Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider film culture.
Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns
舞牛
Allen Fong
Cora Miao, Anthony Wong
In this story, a dancer with one of the more conservative Chinese troupes is increasingly frustrated with their stodgy repertoire, and she and her photographer boyfriend want to start a new, more innovative company. They go to the moneymen and eventually arrange this, but the photographer is so overwhelmed by the difficulties he has endured in the process that he has a nervous breakdown and separates from the dancer, who goes on to ever greater success
Dancing Bull
上海之夜
Tsui Hark
Kenny Bee, Sylvia Chang
In 1937 Shanghai, a soon-to-depart soldier meets a young woman under a bridge during a Japanese air raid. They vow to meet after the war ends, but they don't know each other's name or face. Ten years later, the young woman, a nightclub singer, takes in a naive girl fresh from the country. The country girl falls in love with the would-be song-writer upstairs who, unbeknownst to the singer, is none other than the soldier from the bridge.
Shanghai Blues
男生女相：華語電影之性別
Stanley Kwan
Chang Cheh, Chen Kaige
This highly personal film essay demonstrates that Chinese cinema has dealt with questions of gender and sexuality more frankly and provocatively than any other national cinema. Yang ± Yin examines male bonding and phallic imagery in the swordplay and kung fu movies of the '60s and '70s; homosexuality; same-sex bonding and physical intimacy; the continuing emphasis on women's grievances in melodramas; and the phenomenon of Yam Kim-Fai, a Hong Kong actress who spent her life portraying men on and off the screen.
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
Life is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
Wayne Wang
Victor Wong, Lo Lieh
A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found. With no further instructions, he decides to take in the sights of Hong Kong, which consist of him taking part in a great deal of blood, sex and general weirdness, all while wearing a briefcase handcuffed to his arm.
Life is Cheap... But Toilet Paper is Expensive
鬼戰
Ming-Cheung Chin
Simon Yam, Alfred Cheung Kin-Ting
Director Tong orders a box to be moved during a shoot. His only thought was move a mound of snow to make the scene look a little better. His crew warn him it's a devil's box, but move it anyway. The first guy to pick up the box dies shortly after, having accidentally fallen off a roof. Tong's work declines, as does his health. He is diagnosed with a brain tumor, and begins to be pursued by… something evil.
The Devil’s Box
