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Article: The Rise and Fall of Hong Kong cinema
Wednesday, Jul 22, 2009 11:49PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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The rise and fall -- and rise? -- of Hong Kong cinema
By Jeff Yang, Special to SF Gate
Thursday, July 22, 2009
Read more:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/07/22/apop072209.DTL#ixzz0M0IPhmCMWhen the Shelf was inaugurated shortly after I graduated from college -- it was an Ikea shelf back then, and the films were on VHS, but the principle remained the same -- the collection of films were almost entirely from Hong Kong, reflecting that region's creative flush in the late '80s and early '90s. Some still remain, weathered and beaten copies of standbys like "A Better Tomorrow" and "The Mission," "Shaolin Soccer" and "Comrades: Almost a Love Story," "Project A" and "Police Story 3: Supercop."
By the end of the 1990s, however, the number of new Hong Kong films vying for Shelf status started to dwindle. And 10 years later, though a few Hong Kong movies each year are always worth watching, none since "Infernal Affairs" have made the cut.
Read more:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/07/22/apop072209.DTL#ixzz0M0IKWvOV

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rottendoubt
posted on Thursday, Jul 23, 2009 2:44PM [Report]

hmmm ya there are definitely a lot fewer movies made these days. and most of the ones made now are directly targeting china....

kung fu hustle was quite good post infernal affairs...
andy_lau_spain
posted on Thursday, Jul 23, 2009 12:21AM [Report]

nice article
I agree with almost everything it's been said in there.
Actually for the "fall" of Hk cinema there's a big thing missing: Japan and Korea started making real movies for bigger audiences, creating their own styles, that also, with the lack of good movies in Hk made the audiences turn their heads.
And the fact that there is no "new generations" in cinema either in front or behind the cameras to bring new life into it may be a big thing to think about. ^^

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