News Links - 4/11/07

[dleedlee]

"Tuya's Marriage" Director Hopes Zhang Yimou Acts Again
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/04/11/1261@215020.htm

Pang Ho Cheung's "Now Showing"
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/04/11/60@215053.htm

HK festival won't tell Mak's 'August Story'
RTHK objects to film's longer version
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111796 ... id=13&cs=1

Jet Li's Charitable Fund Ad Unveiled
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/04/11/1261@214956.htm

China claims kung fu king to keep legend alive and kicking
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 637237.ece

Asia Major
A week of Chinese, Korean, and Thai fests in New York City
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0715,h ... 33,20.html

'The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai'
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0715,h ... 55,20.html

Jeremy Miller still in 'Fashion' with Chinese audiences
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... 82c12b1ba8

Nikkatsu unveils lineup for 2007 - 08
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/1144/1/

Dressing Like Celebrities in Beijing
http://english.cri.cn/3100/2007/04/11/60@215102.htm

Chinese Writer Sues US Movie Giant over Copyright Infringement
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/04/11/1261@214945.htm

[dleedlee]

Aaron Kwok and Xu Jinglei Most Attractive in Cinematographers' Eyes
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/04/11/60@215240.htm

Chinese back lot grows to epic proportions
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111796 ... id=13&cs=1

Jacky Cheung's Concert Not Well Sold in Nanchang
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/04/11/60@215249.htm


Rain to Open Concert in Sydney
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/04/11/176@215169.htm

How we learned to love subtitles
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 640955.ece

[Brian Thibodeau]

How we learned to love subtitles
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 640955.ece

Nice read. Until this part, at least:

Tarantino, more than anyone, created the notion that subtitled movies could be brash and achingly cool when he announced, on a press tour for Reservoir Dogs (itself inspired by the Hong Kong director Ringo Lam’s City on Fire ), that he had cried during Wong Karwai’s propulsive Kowloon-set youth movie Chungking Express because “I never thought I could love a movie this much”.

Yes, where would we be without him...

[ewaffle]

How we learned to love subtitles
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 640955.ece

an entire invasion of profoundly eerie Japanese horror movies such as The Ring and The Grudge showed a creatively conservative Hollywood system how to make scary movies.

"Creatively conservative" indeed.