#mabel cheung

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An Autumn’s Tale (1987)

Dir. Mabel Cheung

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An Autumn’s Tale (1987)

秋天的童話 An Autumn’s Tale (1987)  directed by Mabel Cheung

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An Autumn's Tale (Mabel Cheung, 1987)

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Mabel Cheung, {1987} 秋天的童話 (An Autumn's Tale)

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八両金 (Eight Taels of Gold) (Mabel Cheung, 1989) | Cover for the Blu-ray by Spectrum Films / Cover by Gokaiju

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秋天的童話 An Autumn’s Tale (1987) - Mabel Cheung

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Chow Yun-fat and Cherie Chung in An Autumn's Tale (Mabel Cheung, 1987)

Cast: Chow Yun-fat, Cherie Chung, Danny Chan, Arthur Fulbright, Gigi Wong, Joyce Houseknecht. Screenplay: Alex Law, Low Chi-Yeuh. Cinematography: David Chung, James Hayman. Production design: Christy Addis. Film editing: Chu Sun-Kit. Music: Lowell Lo. 

The chemistry between Chow Yun-fat and Cherie Chung animates the somewhat rough-edged romance of Samuel Pang (Chow) , a thirtysomething slacker, and Jennifer Lee (Chung), a twentysomething woman who arrives in New York expecting to meet her boyfriend, Vincent (Danny Chan), only to find he has a new girlfriend and is moving to Boston. Samuel, known as Figgy (short for Figurehead, a reference to his years as a sailor), takes her under his wing, though she's put off by his slacker ways -- he survives mainly by gambling and carousing with his pals. As in any good romance, she loosens up and he straightens up, though not without the usual backsliding. The film gives some fresh twists to the usual romcom tropes.

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秋天的童話 [An Autumn’s Tale], Mabel Cheung [1987]

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1997 movies??

wahhh sorry this is kinda late but!! i think it's a toss-up between happy together (dir. wong kar-wai) and the soong sisters (dir. mabel cheung)! both are very different but very distinctive for their directors' styles and the latter i am so enamoured with bc i loooove republican era settings kjghggdkjh.

also special shoutout to troublesome night, which kinda sucks but is definitely memorable in its own way. so bad it's good campy horror-comedy my beloved <3

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hello ! Sorry to bother But I was wondering if u had any 90's Hong Kong movies that you could recommend me ? I'm researching them for school and I usually get the most interesting and gutwrenching sinophone movie recs from your blog so I thought I should ask if u had any ! Thank u ❣️

Hey you 🥰 this is probably waaaaaay to late to be of any help with your research (sorry!) but I'll answer anyway just in case <3 (also, it got. a bit long 😳 so sorry about that lmao)

I'll start off by addressing the elephant in the room, a.k.a. Wong Kar-wai: the director you really can't avoid mentioning when talking about 90s and 00s Hong Kong cinema, and for good reason. I won't mention all his films here, but his best known are probably In the Mood for Love (which is regularly hailed as one of the greatest films ever made, which. yes); Happy Together (a staple of queer cinema starring Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung caught up in a fever-like, destructive love affair in Buenos Aires); Chungking Express (another classic beloved by many, many people); Fallen Angels (a stylish and chaotically seductive about eccentric figures inhabiting Hong Kong's nightlife).

Another director from this period who I think is worth highlighting is Stanley Kwan. He's probably best known for Rouge, which is from 1987 but which I’m including because it’s a classic; it stars the wonderful Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui as the principals in a doomed, decades-spanning love affair, featuring sumptuous visuals, ghosts, and time-slippages between the 1930s and 1980s. His other most notable work is probably Center Stage (1991); it's a very meta biopic of the 1930s actress Ruan Lingyu, who is portrayed by Maggie Cheung, and Kwan uses the film to draw parallels between the two actresses living decades apart. And I'll also mention his Lan Yu (2001), a gay love story set against the backdrop of Tiananmen Square and its aftermath (it's probably weird to admit that this is one of my comfort films but shrugs).

Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996) is an absolute favourite of mine, about immigrant identity, missed chances and lives you could have led, human connection under capitalism, and the love story between two people whose paths keep crossing despite everything--all of which is topped off with fantastic performances from Maggie Cheung and Leon Lai.

Farewell My Concubine (1993) was a Hong Kong-mainland co-production and is probably one of the best known films on this list, starring the fantastic Leslie Cheung in one of the defining performances of his career (tbh it would be worth watching for his performance alone). Coming in at just under 3 hours, it's a cinematic epic in pretty much every sense of the word.

Speaking of Leslie Cheung: Viva Erotica (1996), in which he plays an arthouse director whose Serious Films keep flopping, so he has to turn his next film into an erotic movie financed by a triad boss. It’s funny and big-hearted and has some unexpectedly interesting things to say about filmmaking and cinema as both an industry and as an artform.

Ann Hui is one of the few female big-name Hong Kong directors of the 90s; I'd recommend her 1990 film Song of the Exile--a film about generational conflict, immigration, cultural alienation and family ties, which takes place across the UK, Hong Kong, and Japan, and stars Maggie Cheung in the lead role. (Another prominent woman director from the period whom I've been meaning to watch since forever Mabel Cheung--really looking forward to finally seeing something of hers soon.)

Takeshi Kaneshiro and Kelly Chen had quite a few collaborations which are rather nice. Their Anna Magdalena (1998) is a quirky but poignant love-triangle story that inexplicably turns into a delightful steampunk romp. Lost and Found (1996) is another quirky-but-poignant love story, albeit a little more sedate.

For action films, there's the legendary John Woo, whose films are pretty quintessential action flicks--Hard Boiled is a pretty good example of his filmography. There's also The Heroic Trio and Executioners (both 1993): an action duology starring Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung and Anita Mui as a trio of ass-kicking vigilante superheroes. It's sooooo much fun, peak cinema, marvel could never, etc. etc. I'm also going to mention Infernal Affairs (2002), starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau, because it's one of my favourite action thriller films of all time.

Wuxia: a lot of the most well-known titles of the genre are from the first decades of the 2000s, and because of their scope they tend to be international productions, but often had veteran Hong Kong actors in main roles (for example, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Hero (2002), House of Flying Daggers (2004)--all of which I would recommend, btw). But there were also quite a few wuxia films that came out of Hong Kong in the 90s, including New Dragon Gate Inn (a fun 1992 remake of the 1960s wuxia classic, starring Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Maggie Cheung); The Green Snake (1993), a retelling of the traditional Legend of the White Snake that doubles as an interesting deconstruction of lots of the main tropes of the wuxia genre; Wong Kar-wai's 1994 Ashes of Time, which has an insanely star-studded cast and is pretty much what you'd expect a wkw wuxia film to be like.

.......aaaaaaand i'm going to stop there, because this is already a Lot😅 but hopefully there's something of use in here--if not for your research, then at least recommending a new film to watch <3

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Spectacle Radio ep.116 :: 05.23.24 :: I’m talking to the demon that has taken over this brain

Nabihah Iqbal - Canada Park (dir. Razas AlSalah, 2019)

Gerry Mulligan Quartet - I’m Beginning to See the Light (from Document, Memory, for my Friend Bill Rice, dir. Tom Jarmusch)

Bill Rice

Sister Sai - Devotional (from Beneath the Concrete, The Forest, dir. Lev Omelchenko, 2023)

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? (dir. Ray Dennis Steckler, 1964)

National Diploma (dir. Dieudo Hamadi, 2017)

Pierre Akendengue - Oma ayiya (National Diploma)

Brian Noyes - Dr. Hurt’s Love Theme (from Fantasy A Gets a Mattress, dirs. David Norman Lewis & Noah Zoltan Sofian, 2024)

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Love Everlasting (dir. Zhang Ailing, 1947)

Attack of the Joyful Goddess (dir. Chang Cheh, 1983)

Nine Demons (dir. Chang Cheh, 1984)

Long Live the Missus (dir. Hu Sang, 1947)

Law Wing-fai - The Chicken Yard (Boat People, dir. Ann Hui, 1982)

Kenny Bee - The Illegal Immigrant (dir. Mabel Cheung, 1985)

Shanghai 13 (dir. Chang Cheh, 1984)

Long Live the Missus

Funky Forest: The First Contact (dirs. Shunichiro Miki, Hajime Ishimine, & Katsuhito Ishii, 2005)

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Kristeen Young - Pearl of a Girl (Spirit Riser, dir. Dylan Greenberg, 2024)

Silvurdrongur - Gay er the new straight (Skal)

Bolshe Vita (dir. Ibolya Fekete, 1996)

Chico (dir. Ibolya Fekete, 2001)

Warm Blood (dir. Rick Charnoski, 2022)

Occlude - The Trees (dir. Peter Azen, 2022)

Coil - The First Five Minutes After Death (Muscle, dir. Hisayasu Sato, 1989)

John Cale - End Titles for Who Am I This Time? (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1982)

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Sorties films HK

Septembre 2023 :

The Long Arm of the Law (88 Films) // Précommandé sur Amazon.co.uk

She Shoots Straight (Eureka) ❌

King Hu volume 2 (Spectrum Films) // Précommandé chez Metaluna

Mabel Cheung (Spectrum Films) ❌

Doctor Mack/Lost and Found (Spectrum Films) ❌

The Ti Lung / David Chiang Collection (Shout! Factory) // Précommandé chez l'éditeur

Octobre 2023 :

Heaven and Earth (Cargo Records) // Précommandé sur Amazon.de

Visible Secret (Radiance Films) // Précommandé sur Amazon.co.uk

Coffret Brigitte Lin (Spectrum Films) ❌

Coffret Tang Chia (Spectrum Films) // Précommandé chez Metaluna

Beach of the War Gods (Eureka) ❌

Zu les guerriers de la montagne magique (HK Vidéo) ❌

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宋家皇朝 (The Soong Sisters) (Mabel Cheung, 1997) Cover for the Blu-ray by Spectrum Films

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秋天的童話 An Autumn’s Tale (1987) - Mabel Cheung

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Ang Lee Taps Son Mason Lee To Play Martial Arts Legend Bruce Lee In Epic At Sony’s 3000 Pictures

Ang Lee Taps Son Mason Lee To Play Martial Arts Legend Bruce Lee In Epic At Sony’s 3000 Pictures

EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s 3000 Pictures has finalized a deal that will see Oscar winner Ang Lee direct Bruce Lee, a film that will star the filmmaker’s son Mason Lee in the role of the iconic martial artist. Dan Futterman, whose work includes Capote and Foxcatcher, is working on a script that has seen previous versions by Jean Castelli, Alex Law and Mabel Cheung, and, most recently, Wells…