Tag: China
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Icon adds ‘Mayday 3DNA’, ‘The Sorcerer and the White Snake’, ‘Project Nim’ to 2011 slate
NEWS: Icon has announced their Australia release slate for the rest of the year.
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First Look: ‘Wu Xia’ Trailer
TRAILER: Peter Ho-Sun Chan’s Wu Xia, also known as Dragon, is the next Chinese-language film to get a release in Australia. We now get a look at the full trailer of the new Donnie Yen vehicle, still kicking after all these years. It also stars Tang Wei and the internationally recognisable Takeshi Kaneshiro in this…
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Beginning of the Great Revival
REVIEW: Marking the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party of China, Beginning of the Great Revival has been largely labelled in the West as a piece of party propaganda.
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Sydney Film Festival 2011: Day 7
A week into the 58th Sydney Film Festival, there are no signs of slowing down. Film critics David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz took to the stage to discuss 25 years of reviews on the air, while Jury President Chen Kaige presented his latest film Sacrifice.
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Review: The Lost Bladesman
The creative forces behind Infernal Affairs re-team to present their take on the burgeoning historical martial arts genre.
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The Butcher, The Chef and the Swordsman
The debut film of commercial video director Wuershan, this chaotic and lively adaptation of An Changhe’s short story “The Legend of the Kitchen Knife” comes to the West courtesy of major studio Fox International and executive producer Doug Liman.
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Mr. & Mrs. Incredible
Vincent Kok (Shaolin Soccer), delivers another satirical farce for the Chinese New Year season. Concerning a couple of retired superheroes in ancient China (Sandra Ng Kwan Yue and Louis Koo), it’s co-written by Kung Fu Hustle scribe Min Hun Fung!
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Shaolin
Despite a brief renaissance in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Chinese film (and in particular, martial arts) has been strangely absent from Australian cinema screens over the last few years. Not since the world’s love affair with Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – which in turn led to wide releases of Hero and…
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