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News Links - 4/15/07

Postby dleedlee » Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:32 pm

Shooting Starts On "Battle of Red Cliff"
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/04/15/168@216376.htm

Zhou Xun not really challenged by dual role in new film
http://english.people.com.cn/200704/15/ ... 66609.html

Review: Redline from director Andy Cheng stunt coordinator/Jackie Chan stunt double (according to imdb)
http://www.cinematical.com/2007/04/14/review-redline/

REVIEW: 'DREAMING LHASA'
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/movie ... ei=5087%0A

The Discreet Charm of Bobby Lee
http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/070413/art ... ntID=67505
Attitudes and Feelings, Both Ridiculous and Sometimes Unintelligible (Episode 1)
http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/070413/art ... ntID=67504

Romance of the Western Chamber 1927 film released on DVD
http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/070413/art ... ntID=67329

History is Made by Knights - Fusion DVD label
http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=67212

Jaman till the jam is through
http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=67211

Girl gives voice to new Chinese-American cartoon
Nickelodeon picks 10-year-old from Wauwatosa after nationwide search - Jade-Lianna Peters
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=591289

Modern China pedals away from iconic bicycle - Flying Pigeon
http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/35927.aspx
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Postby duriandave » Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:31 pm

Zhou Xun not really challenged by dual role in new film

umm... yeah... mabe that's because Zhou Xun "specializes" in dual roles, considering Suzhou River and Baober in Love.

After seeing the trailer (hopefully the movie is better), I'm inclined to say that maybe the role just plain simple wasn't challenging.
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Postby dleedlee » Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:42 pm

I'm looking forward to this one.

Found this review from the HKIFF - sounds mildly positive
http://anutshellreview.blogspot.com/200 ... miere.html
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Postby dleedlee » Sun Apr 15, 2007 7:05 pm

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Lau Ching Wan - Best Actor

HKFA winners: After This Our Exile, Patrick Tam, Gong Li, Lau Ching Wan, Zhou Xun

Director's comeback after 17 years wins big at Hong Kong Film Awards
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/ ... Awards.php


Art-house drama scoops top honours in Hong Kong film awards
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Art_house_ ... 52007.html


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Hong Kong Film Awards Presentation Ceremony Begins
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/04/15/1221@216465.htm
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Postby Brian Thibodeau » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:27 pm

From the story on "Hong Kong director" Andy Cheng's REDLINE:

Redline is not only financed by real-estate investor Daniel Sadek, it features vehicles primarily from his own personal collection of high-end performance cars. Actually, not only does the film feature Sadek's cars, he also wrote the lyrics to many of the film's original songs. This kind of thinking may seem like madness -- actually, a brief listen to the film's power ballad, "Moving Violations," pretty much confirms it's madness -- but that kind of goofy goony megalomania has been largely squeezed out of Hollywood these days, where multinational corporations have third-quarter line items about projected writedowns due to the failure of their comic-book franchise's sequel. Redline may be junk, but at least it's junk made by human beings.


This just shot to the top of my must-see list! :lol:
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Postby duriandave » Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:19 pm

dleedlee wrote:I'm looking forward to this one.

Thanks for the review! Actually, I had been looking forward to this too until I saw the trailer. And as a Zhou Xun fan, I will definitely watch it. I just hope that this is her last dual role! :P (And that she gets some really good meaty roles to show her talent, like she did in Still Life.)

BTW, here is a link to the trailer, courtesy of Twitch.com:
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?SID=29497982 (WMV file)
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Postby duriandave » Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:21 pm

Lau Ching Wan - Best Actor

Just seeing the look on Lau's face as he holds that award makes me happy! I was hoping that this would be the ending to My Name is Fame. :D
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