Comments on: 28th Hong Kong Film Awards Preview: Best Film

By: msxie

msxie — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:46:15 +0000

I liked Li Bing Bing before she had surgery to reshape her face. Now she looks like Fan Bing Bing’s sister.

By: YTSL

YTSL — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:46:11 +0000

Hear, hear re a lot of Sanney’s comments, especially his concluding “it would be a shame if the exceptional, note-perfect, little local film that’s about local people and local issues fails to win the prize.”

Re RED CLIFF: Part II is quite a bit better than Part I. So if it wins, it should be for Part II rather than I.

Re CJ7: Maybe the conversation among the HKFAA executives went along the lines of “It made so much money, so it must be good, right?” :S

By: phatyou

phatyou — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:51:14 +0000

and my pick is….. li bing bing over fan bing bing!…

By: glenn

glenn — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:06:18 +0000

Great post! Though I can’t work up the enthusiasm to order both parts of Red Cliff yet.

I find myself referring to The Way We Are when I explain to people here in the States why I hated Slumdog Millionaire. Everything hokey, lachrymose, over-the-top, and obvious about Slumdog was done in a believable and realistic way in Ann Hui’s film. It proved that one can make a film about less financially well-off (I don’t use the word “poor” for the characters in Ann Hui’s film) people and do it with subtlety.

Personally, I liked Ip Man, Beast Stalker, and True Women for Sale a lot but I didn’t enjoy Painted Skin very much at all but that’s a topic for another day.