v Piracy Threatens Chow's Film Hit
The huge success of Stephen Chow's latest comedy "Kung Fu Hustle" has drawn concerns about the threat of piracy. |
v A World without Thieves under New Year Culture
As another New Year approaches, a continuous stream of seasonal movies, plays, concerts and books is making "New Year" a permanent fixture in the cultural marketplace. |
v Chow Hustles His Kung Fu
As the year winds down, the film market seems to be cranking out more movies than we can keep up with. Mainland blockbuster A World Without Thieves, which has just gone on release, will have direct competition in about ten days when Hong Kong film Kungfu Hustle hits screens around the country. |
v Steamy Times Come to Chinese Films?
"House of Flying Daggers," which is being released in New York on Dec. 3 by Sony Pictures Classics, may be the first large-scale mainland Chinese movie to assert a frank, liberated approach to sex. |
v Life Translated
A teenage comedy following the fates and fortunes of a Chinese 16-year-old exchange student in the UK. |
v Screening Date for Film 'No Thief' Scheduled
The premiere of Feng Xiaogang's New Year film, No Thief, is scheduled for Dec. 9, announced Wang Zhonglei, executive president of Huayi Brothers & Taihe Film Investment Co., Ltd., and an investor in the film. |
v Ke Ke Xi Li: An Uncompromising Hit
Directed by Lu Chuan, Ke Ke Xi Li, with a cast predominantly composed of local Tibetans rather than big box office names, stunned audiences when it premiered. |
v 'Growing Pains' Shot to Film
Jennifer Li is a lucky girl. She is not a professional writer but her first book about her school days in England has sold 120,000 copies. She is not a beauty but she won the role of portraying herself as the heroine of a big-budget movie adapted from her book. |
v Some Classic French Documentary Films
France, sometimes referred to as the birthplace of film, has consistently attached high importance to documentaries, with many classic documentaries the work of French directors. Let's have a look at some of them together. |
v Face to face with Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai
Wang Xiaoshuai is one of the prominent figures, together with Zhang Yuan, Jia Zhangke, Zhang Ming, and others, of what is now widely referred to as China's "Sixth Generation" or "Urban Generation" directors. |
v Jia ZhangKe and Hou Hsiao-hsien Fight For Golden Lion
The 61st Venice International Film Festival has once again become the focus for domestic media attention, as the sixth generation director Jia Zhangke brings his latest film ˇ°Worldˇ± to scrap for the Golden Lion award. |
v John Woo to Put Red Cliffs on Screen
A famous battle during the period of the Three Kingdoms, about 1,800 years ago, recently ignited a more modern day ˇ°battleˇ± in Chinese movie circles. |
v The Twin Effect Two: Fantasy Epic or Teen Drama?
Before the hype surrounding Zhan Yimou's new blockbuster could fade, another big-budget film, the Twin Effect Two, has just been released on the mainland. |
v The House of Flying Daggers: Critics Sharpening Up Their Knives?
The House of Flying Daggers, a martial arts film by China's top director Zhang Yimou, has been screening for about half a month now. How has the film really been received by the critics and filmgoers? And what does this film mean for the domestic film industry as a whole? |
v McDull the Piglet Makes A Return to the Big Screen
The creation of Hong Kong animators Brian Tse and Alice Mak, the second film featuring the pink piglet with a brown eye has hit screens in Hong Kong cinemas. |
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Piracy Threatens Chow's Film Hit
Director: Liu Chi