News Links - 8/17/07

[dleedlee]

Wong Kar-Wai
Hong Kong art-house director counts Hollywood stars as fans before working in West
http://www.live-pr.com/en/hong-kong-art ... r23621.htm

Two Chinese Works in Toronto Film Festival Lineup
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/08/17/63@262618.htm

Stephen Chow's "Hope" becomes "CJ7"
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/1896/1/

From Wong Fei Hung to Wushu Champion - Angie Tsang Tze-Man
The star of a 1993 hit movie was always going to fulfill her ambitions – just not as a movie idol.
http://hk.bcmagazine.net/hk.bcmagazine. ... wushu.html

Lee's `Enter the Dragon' to Get Remake
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 113D68.DTL
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/1855/53/

Invisible Target review
http://hk.bcmagazine.net/hk.bcmagazine. ... sible.html

The Home Song Stories

http://www.smh.com.au/news/film-reviews ... 47075.html

FILM REVIEW: Manufactured Landscapes
http://www.star-telegram.com/movies/story/203780.html
Boys of Tomorrow (South Korea)
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/1904/1/

Politics, Olympics toy with films
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111797 ... Id=13&cs=1

Forget Donald Tsang, a cute white, perhaps mouth-less, cat rules Hong Kong.

http://hk.bcmagazine.net/hk.bcmagazine. ... kitty.html

[Gaijin84]

Lee's `Enter the Dragon' to Get Remake

[writer/director Kurt Sutter] "I'm a huge noir fan, and this plot lends itself to the film I want to make," Sutter said. "I wanted to set it in these underground fight clubs where the action is really raw and expose the brutality of Shaolin kung fu. This will be more 'Raging Bull' than 'Crouching Tiger' in its viciousness."

What the hell is this guy talking about? This is already sounding like straight-to-video stuff. Just the line "expose the brutality of Shaolin kung fu" makes me absolutely cringe. And this is coming from someone that loves the art and has been taking classes for over a year.

[dleedlee]

I think I'd still rather see a movie based on the Shaolin Smugglers "ripped from today's headlines!" - Crouching Snakehead, Hidden Aliens

[Brian Thibodeau]

Underground fight clubs....whatever.

I remember a time when such things really were the invention of the B-movie screenwriters behind DTV junk like the Shootfighter films, Death Ring, etc.

Sadly, a film like this has a built in audience today, many of whom still wear mullets and can build a small block hemi from scratch. As such, it'll go one step further in legitimizing the ultimate white-trash "sports" entertainment. A local radio station here broadcasts a syndicated two-hour (and thankfully late-late-night) program expressly devoted to wrestling and this mixed-martial-arts bulls**t. It's laughable how seriously this crap is taken nowadays.

I'm with you Dennis. Give me HOUSE OF FLYING PIRATES or CURSE OF THE GOLDEN TOOTHPASTE over this junk any day!

[dleedlee]

From what I've garnered on the local sports talk radio - mixed martial arts and/or ultimate fighting is huge stuff. Our local UPN/WC/WB station carries UFC/Ultimate Fight Champion(?) - it might even be nightly, I'm not sure. But it's not late enough cause I've come across it a lot.

How about:
Guangzhou Bratz?
"They look like dolls, but they'll lead you to death!"

[Gaijin84]

From what I've garnered on the local sports talk radio - mixed martial arts and/or ultimate fighting is huge stuff. Our local UPN/WC/WB station carries UFC/Ultimate Fight Champion(?) - it might even be nightly, I'm not sure. But it's not late enough cause I've come across it a lot.

It is huge - it will overtake boxing soon enough. It was actually predominantly in Japan for many years under various titles (i.e. shooto, pancrase, etc) and all the top fighters pretty much fought there in PRIDE and K-1 (kickboxing). Unfortunately they had financial troubles and UFC recently bought them out. UFC definitely has a trailer-trash aspect to it which is too bad. The shows that the Japanese put on were actually quite entertaining and the fighters were major figures in the Japanese entertainment world.