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Last Site Update: April 14, 2013
Site Review Count: 2151
   

Udine Far East Film Festival 15

Of Hong Kong Film Awards
and Far East Film Festivals
As usual, April brings with it the Hong Kong Film Awards, where a bunch of industry people pat the backs of other people who work in the industry, and the Udine Far East Film Festival, where many Asian films are screened in that far off land called Italy. The results of the former can be found here, and the schedule for the latter can be found here. Representatives of this website will be at the latter, where we can usually be found sleeping in the cinema.

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- Awards: 32nd Hong Kong Film Award Winners
- Review: Drug War
- Review: Finding Mr. Right
- Review: Say Yes!
- Review: Million Dollar Crocodile
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Updated January 20, 2012

   

The Best 200 Hong Kong Films Ever
and The Best Hong Kong Film Performances
In case you did not visit this site for over two months, we did this thing were we polled our readers and came up with two countdowns, for the The Best 200 Hong Kong Films Ever and also The Best Hong Kong Film Performances. You can now click through and read both features over at Damn You, Kozo without the annoying wait for us to continue running the countdown -- it only took us 24 days to complete the whole thing -- which we're sure is preferable to what actually happened.

We hope readers and the participants had fun with both votes. We won't be doing anything like this again at LoveHKFilm.com because of the time sink and also because we have no idea what subject is left. We considered Worst 100 Hong Kong Films Ever but you know, we have this reputation for being very negative, so why add to that perception.

  Previous Updates

NEW for April 14, 2013
- Added the winners of the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards.
- Added Kozo's reviews of Drug War (2013), Finding Mr. Right (2013), Say Yes! (2013) and Million Dollar Crocodile (2012).

NEW for March 27, 2013
- Added Kozo's reviews of Saving General Yang (2013), Princess and Seven Kung Fu Masters (2013) and Together (2013).

NEW for February 28, 2013
- Added Kozo's reviews of Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013), Hotel Deluxe (2013) and I Love Hong Kong 2013 (2013).

NEW for February 3, 2013
- Happy Lunar New Year!
- Added Kozo's reviews of The Grandmaster (2013), The Last Tycoon (2012) and Cha Cha for Twins (Taiwan, 2012).

NEW for January 20, 2013
- Happy New Year!
- Added Kevin Ma's reviews of Lost in Thailand (2012) and Love in Time (2012).
- Added Kozo's reviews of Chinese Zodiac (2012), Young and Dangerous: Reloaded (2013), The Guillotines (2012), Mystery (2012) and Love Me Not (2012).
- Added the winners of the 19th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.
Featured Review
Louis Koo in DRUG WAR
Louis Koo in Drug War

Drug War
Hey China, meet Johnnie To! The Milkyway Image mastermind gets his formal introduction to the mainland with Drug War, a crime thriller about righteous PRC cops looking to bust despicable drug dealers. To got into the co-production game with romances Don’t Go Breaking My Heart and Romancing in Thin Air, but both felt like Hong Kong films dabbling in China. Drug War stars mainland actors, features uniquely mainland settings and was bow-to-stern approved by SARFT. There’s a Hong Kong director at the helm, but Drug War is a China film. Skepticism is natural, as much of Milkyway Image’s crime filmography would not work under the assumed SARFT rules. Honor among thieves, heroic bloodshed, thematic irony – survey says this stuff isn’t going to fly. But take those joy-killing barriers and spin them sideways, and you’ll see just how surmountable the obstacles are. There’s a way to take on China’s dreaded content rules, and Johnnie To shows he’s the man to do it. (more)

 
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Bad title, good movie
Finding Mr. Right
Lame title, good movie. Finding Mr. Right has the tangled trappings of your typical commercial romcom, but writer-director Xue Xiaolu... (more)
 
"No" is a pretty good answer too
Say Yes!
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll scratch your head at how little sense it makes. (more)
 
The Wong Jing Way
Princess and Seven
Kung Fu Masters

After his period gangster epic The Last Tycoon, Wong Jing, with help from co-director Keung Kwok-Man (Bullet and Brain)... (more)
 
TripAdvisor recommended
Hotel Deluxe
Producer-actor Raymond Wong varies his Lunar New Year formula with the passably entertaining Hotel Deluxe... (more)
 
Still Standing
The Grandmaster
The Grandmaster is Wong Kar-Wai’s first Chinese-language feature in eight years — his last was 2046 in 2004... (more)
 
 
Fifty-five cent acting
Million Dollar Crocodile
Cheapo creature features live with the forgivably bad Million Dollar Crocodile, a knowing B-movie starring a CGI crocodile.... (more)
 
The One Child Policy in action
Saving General Yang
Time to bone up on your Yang family history... (more)
 
Monkeying around
Journey to the West:
Conquering the Demons
Stephen Chow returns, in spirit if not form. The superstar actor-filmmaker is back... (more)
 
Smiling is for pussies
Together
When star-packed romance omnibuses go wrong, you get Together. Directed by Clarence Fok (Naked Killer), this vapid date movie... (more)
 
Your yearly admiration of local love
I Love Hong Kong 2013
Historically, TVB’s Lunar New Year films have been surprisingly enjoyable, managing populist entertainment... (more)
 

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