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Postby dleedlee » Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:07 pm

Pop Duo Twins to Split
(English version of yesterday's ent.sina article)
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/06/29/902s374740.htm
Gillian Cheung reportedly screen testing for Oliver Stone's Pinkville
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http://ent.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/news/sho ... 643&ct=pic
Gillian Chung Departs to America for Hollywood Film Casting
http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Gillian- ... 55666.html
EEG: Twins separated but not disbanded
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http://ent.sina.com.cn/s/h/p/2008-06-28 ... 9794.shtml

Retracing Wong Kar Wai's first decade as a director
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la ... 4996.story

Ashes of Time Redux - Shanghai update

(6/23/2008) The 12th Annual Shanghai International Film Festival's ASHES
OF TIME REDUX special screening took place last night. This festival's
Jin Jue Award jury chairman Wong Kar Wai along with the film's actors Tony
Leung Chiu Wai, Carina Lau Ka Ling and Charlie Yeung Choi Nei attended.
It was also ASHES OF TIME REDUX's first Asian appearance.

The film had 150 yuan high price tickets but over 2,000 tickets
were sold out in a little over a hour. The screening had no empty seat,
on one hand in support of the earthquake area rebuilding and on the
other due to the appreciation of this classic film. Finally the event
rose 135,000 yuan. Along with the enterprise donated 1 million yuan the
sum would be donated to Shanghai Red Cross for Sichuan earthquake
rebuilding. Wong Kar Wai expressed, "I am very honored to be able to have
this chance to contribute to the Sichuan disaster area rebuilding." This
screening is only a start. They would continue to pay attention to the
Sichuan disaster area and school rebuidling.

To salute Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing, Wong Kar Wai's film in the end
left a shot for him. In the audience many were Gor Gor's loyal fans.
They rose a "Keep loving Leslie Cheung" banner and cried Cheung Kwok
Wing's name in memory of this late idol.

Reportedly from ASHES OF TIME to ASHES OF TIME REDUX now, Wong Kar
Wai and his production team used four years to restore the original film's
visual effects. Wong Kar Wai hired a foreign special effect company to
restore this 15 year old film frame and frame with the latest digital
technology. On the big screen the effects were very obvious, the visual
color were heavier. Each scene was like an oil painting. Editing wise,
the entire film was less than minute longer than the original with the
addition of Lau Ka Ling's close up on horseback in the water and a scene
that stood out Brigitte Lin (Lam Ching Ha)'s character. Yet the rumored
Joey Wong Cho Yin scene did not appear. Some action scenes were actually
cut, like Leung Chiu Wai's horse thief killing scene.

As for sound effect, the original ASHES OF TIME was in mono. The
REDUX had 5.1 Dolby stereo surround sound with famous cellist Yoyo Ma's
all new score. Yoyo Ma's Silk Road band performed in Hong Kong when Wong
Kar Wai after the concert felt that his music was very similar to ASHES OF
TIME. Thus he approached Yoyo Ma to help with seven new scores. Wong
Kar Wai stated that one of Yoyo Ma's solo performance had an enormous
effect on the entire visual, a sound that could not be imagined and only
a cello could make.

When ASHES OF TIME was released 15 years ago, many viewers
complained about its difficulty to comprehend. In comparison to the
original 100 minutes, REDUX was only 93 minutes long. With changes in
the order of actor appearances the film was smoother and easier to
understand. When ASHES OF TIME was made, Cheung Kwok Wing, Leung Chiu
Wai, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Jacky Cheung Hok Yau, Maggie Cheung Man Yuk, Lam
Ching Ha, Lau Ka Ling and Wong Cho Yin starred. Out of the eight
superstars with the exception of Cheung Kwok Wing other scenes were very
loose. Wong Kar Wai and William Chang Suk Ping could only add narrative
during editing to connect the scenes into a story. Finally the resulting
film had a lot of hints and viewers would not help but become confused.

Now Wong Kar Wai has arranged the order anew. The film's themes
were the seaons and returned to spring. Appearing in memory Cheung Man
Yuk, Lau Ka Ling and Lam Ching Ha had slight order changes that made
understanding easier. Even Leung Chiu Wai and Lau Ka Ling agreed that
they liked REDUX more. Lau Ka Ling said, back then she felt that film was
very hard to understand. This time the story was very easy to accept.
Leung Chiu Wai liked REDUX's music and visual, which were better to
appreciate in the cinema.
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/2038/080619.txt

Daejong (Grand Bell) Film Fest Showcases Trends
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/ar ... 26718.html

Late Delivery: Take Out (2004)
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/blogs/post ... -out-2004/

Winds of September - Taiwan
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117937 ... id=31&cs=1

Jackie Chan with Jang Nara in Seoul
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http://ent.sina.com.hk/cgi-bin/news/sho ... 636&ct=pic

Felix Wong: Andy Lau Too Busy To Wed
http://www.batgwa.com/story.php?id=1001

Lin Chiling in Paris
http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.a ... =lifefocus

A toast to a Stellar start
http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story ... sec=movies

Anita Yuen: Not Worried About TV Return
http://www.batgwa.com/story.php?id=1002


Hainan University Sexy Photo Gate
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/200806c.brief.htm#025

Tourism slow as Olympics approach
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7477873.stm

Lax checks caused airport leaks
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_deta ... 80627&fc=8
???? Better to light a candle than curse the darkness; Measure twice, cut once.
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Postby ewaffle » Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:21 am

Mass incident = angry mob burns the local public security bureau

Weng'an Mass Incident

http://www.anti-cnn.com/forum/cn/thread-75581-1-1.html

http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_253078.html
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Postby Brian Thibodeau » Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:34 am

Interesting piece, Ed. Should be interesting to see what comes of all this. I though the most shocking thing was the report of 87,000 "mass incidents" reported in 2005 alone. :shock: Tough to imagine free, multi-party elections wouldn't curb at least a bit of that, if national/municipal politicians and officials knew they could lose their jobs for making such a muck-up of things.



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Postby dleedlee » Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:38 pm

More on Weng'an, with videos (youtube, of course)
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/200806c.brief.htm#028

Weng'an Is A Sensitive Word
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/200806c.brief.htm#030

I though the most shocking thing was the report of 87,000 "mass incidents" reported in 2005 alone

These mass incidents are often related to protests of illegal land confiscations by officials and developers.
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