I feel like Andrew Lau is underrated by everyone.
Andrew Lau kind of reminds me of America's Peter Hyams in a way, another director who's also a cinematographer, and a man whose films run the gamut from enjoyable, glossy high-concept programmers (2010, TIMECOP, THE RELIC, NARROW MARGIN) to painfully misguided glossy high-concept programmers (THE MUSKETEER, SOUND OF THUNDER, STAY TUNED).
Some of Lau's best work pre-dates INFERNAL AFFAIRS in films like the YOUNG & DANGEROUS series, TO LIVE & DIE IN TSIMSHATSUI, AGAINST ALL and even STORM RIDERS and LEGEND OF SPEED. But his good films are mitigated by an equal number of frustrating misfires: WESLEY'S MYSTERIOUS STORY, THE DUEL, DANCE OF A DREAM (especially this one!), THE PARK, and others. I tend to believe that the success of INFERNAL AFFAIRS (at least the first film) is due in large part to Lau's collaboration with Alan Mak.
But I digress...
Nice article on Tony Leung, though. What a class act.
Not sure if anyone here has heard it, but here's a link (swiped from another forum) to a free MP3 download of an interview Leung gave to Leonard Lopate on WNYC Radio. It's very informative, and it expands on many of the issues broached in the China Broadcast article:
http://wnyc.vo.llnwd.net/o1/lopate/lopate080505b.mp3