Tag: xiaodongguo
BLIND MASSAGE Takes Top Honours At 9th Asian Film Awards
Lou Ye's Blind Massage was named Best Film at the 9th Asian Film Awards, which were announced at a star-studded ceremony at The Venetian in Macau last night. The film also won the Best Cinematographer award. Jiang Wen's glitzy...
BLIND MASSAGE Sees Success At Golden Horse Awards
Lou Ye's Blind Massage won six prizes at last night's Golden Horse awards in Taipei, including Best Feature Film, Best New Performer and Best Adapted Screenplay. Hong Kong's Ann Hui was named Best Director for The Golden Era, while Chen Jian-bin...
NY Asian 2014 Review: BLIND MASSAGE, An Artful And Affecting Ensemble Drama
Often controversial Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye delivers one of his finest films with Blind Massage, a delicately observed and artfully directed ensemble drama, based on the novel of the same name by Bi Feiyu. Putting aside, at least for the...
COLD WAR and THE BULLET VANISHES Top HK Film Award Nominations
The nominations for this year's Hong Kong Film Awards were announced earlier today, and predictably, star-studded cop drama Cold War scored 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director nods for its first-time helmers Longman Leung and Sunny Luk. More...
Out Now on Australian DVD: MOTORWAY Is A Stunt Masterpiece
Sean (Shawn Yue) is an overconfident rookie with a need for speed. He works for a covert police unit consisting of the best drivers in the force specifically tackling underworld racing and fugitives on the run. Jensen (Guo Xiaodong) is...
TIFF 2012 Review: MOTORWAY Speeds Down a Divided Highway
It was way back in September 2009 when we first reported that director Soi Cheang would be following up his award-winning film Accident with a car chase action thriller entitled Motorway. Fast-forward 18 months and a trailer for the...
Review: MOTORWAY Stylishly Drifts Into Cinemas
Sean (Shawn Yue) is an overconfident rookie with a need for speed. He works for a covert police unit consisting of the best drivers in the force specifically tackling underworld racing and fugitives on the run. Jensen (Guo Xiaodong) is...
Review: MOTORWAY Feels The Need For Speed, But Not For Plot
[Giving my review a bump as the film finally opens in Hong Kong today.]It was way back in September 2009 when we first reported that director Soi Cheang would be following up his award-winning film Accident with a car chase...
Competition: Win 1 of 5 Double Passes to See MOTORWAY in Australia!
Thanks to our friends at Dream Movie Australia, we have FIVE double passes for the new Hong Kong film Motorway to give away to our Australian readers! This is the much anticipated new film from producer Johnnie To and director...
More Car Action in Hong Kong Trailer For Soi Cheang's MOTORWAY
Only a week after the last trailer for Soi Cheang's car chase flick Motorway surfaced, Media Asia has uploaded another one on its official Youtube channel with even more footage of stunt driving goodness. As mentioned before, the film is produced by...
Soi Cheang's MOTORWAY finally enters the home straight!
It seems like forever since director Soi Cheang and producer Johnnie To began work on their underground racing thriller, MOTORWAY, with the first proper trailer surfacing almost exactly a year ago to the day. Well, now the chequered flag seems...
CONTEST WINNERS: True Legend DVDs.
It's always hard picking through these things. But one thing that helps is when you guys read directions. The contest stated you needed to send me stories of bizarre glory NOT real life heroes or people that you admired because...
A legendary contest for TRUE LEGEND DVDs
I've got two DVDs of the amazingly fun True Legend. It comes with five featurettes, storyboard to scene, music video, international trailer and a packaging QR code that can be scanned for extra bonus features and music .Wanna win one?Tell...
Indomina Unleashes Ninjas In Hollywood To Promote TRUE LEGEND
I'm going to head the inevitable comment off at the pass here. Yes, I'm aware that ninjas are Japanese and True Legend is Chinese. And I'm quite sure that the people at Indomina know it, too. It's just that, you...
Soi Cheang gets fast & furious in the MOTORWAY trailer!
Soi Cheang's previous collaboration with producer Johnnie To, ACCIDENT, is a big favourite around these parts and by the looks of the trailer to his new film, MOTORWAY, he's sticking to the same style.Starring a host of familiar faces, including...
Indomina Releases Poster & US Trailer For TRUE LEGEND
Indomina Releasing are slowly but surely earning my trust. Last week, they introduced the first one-sheet for Yuen Woo Ping's martial arts fantasy, True Legend, the first of their many acquisitions to see theatrical release. Just today, they released the...
HK Filmart: Soi Cheang Revs Up MOTORWAY
While I'm told there are still a few pickup shots to be completed the Johnnie To produced, Soi Cheang directed action flick Motorway is now deep in post production and the first promo is on display at the HK Filmart.Shawn...
Indomina Releasing Sign Deal With Vivendi Entertainment
Following up on my post from a couple of weeks ago, I've got news that the elusive Indomina Releasing has signed a distribution deal with Vivendi Entertainment for home video. Vivendi has a pretty good distribution network and they handle...
Indomina Releasing Speaks!
Do you all remember Indomina Releasing? We began seeing news about this distribution company back in September when they were acquiring big name Hong Kong titles left and right at Fantastic Fest 2010. In case you've forgotten, let me remind...
Fantastic Fest 2010: A conversation with Yuen Woo-ping
Absolutely thrilled beyond words to have the rare opportunity to sit down with a martial arts legend like Yuen Woo-ping during Fantastic Fest and have a conversation with him about his film True Legend and martial arts film in general. My...
