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6th Asian Film Awards Let the Bullets Fly takes 2011’s Top Grossing Asian Film

Friday, Mar 9, 2012 6:40PM / Information / Asian Cinema

(Press release) Hong Kong, 8 March 2012 – The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (HKIFFS) today (8 March 2012) announced that Mainland director JIANG Wen’s critically acclaimed, larger than life action comedy "Let the Bullets Fly" will receive the special award as 2011’s Top Grossing Asian Film at the 6th Asian Film Awards (AFA) ceremony on 19 March 2012 in Hong Kong.

Chow Yun-fat & Jiang Wen in "Let the Bullets Fly"

Directed, written by and starring JIANG Wen as the desperado Pockmark Zhang, the film also stars CHOW Yun-fat, GE You and Carina LAU. "Let the Bullets Fly" has broken records – not only for the biggest box office of any Asian film of 2011, but as the highest grossing Chinese-language film of all time. In a little over a month, the film took 730 million yuan (approximately US$115 million).

Carina Lau in "Let the Bullets Fly"

"Let the Bullets Fly", a cowboy story set in the warlord era of China in the 1920s, has not only won popular acclaim but critical plaudits for its complexity, pace and intelligence.

Chow Yun-fat, Jiang Wen & Ge You in "Let the Bullets Fly"

A tale of bandits, train robberies, conmen and six-gun shootouts, Bullets struck the perfect balance between popcorn spectacle and ingenious plot – and audiences responded in droves, making JIANG’s fourth feature as director the second highest grossing film ever released in China (behind the international mega-hit Avatar), and packing out cinemas around the world thanks to phenomenal word of mouth.

Chow Yun-fat (right) in "Let the Bullets Fly"

“I love "Let the Bullets Fly",” says LI Cheuk-to, Artistic Director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society, the organising body of the AFA. “And I love the fact that it has been so astonishingly successful.

Ge You & Chow Yun-fat in "Let the Bullets Fly"

It’s a fitting reward for a film that so effectively showcases the depth of talent that exists in Asian cinema. It’s proof that you can have spectacle, you can have laughs, you can have complexity and meaning too, all in one film, and have box-office success. It is a significant artistic and commercial achievement.”

For more information about the Asian Film Awards, please visit: www.asianfilmawards.asia.

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Video: MAGIC SHOW by Hong Kong Magician Mr Louis Yan

Thursday, Feb 9, 2012 7:14PM / Video / Show

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SIGNING BRUCE LEE

Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 1:30AM / Standard Entry

Full interview coming soon on Twitch...

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VIDEO: RAYMOND CHOW: INTERVIEW WITH A LIVING LEGEND (INTRO)

Thursday, Jan 26, 2012 12:16AM / Video / Hong Kong Cinema

From Shaw Brothers to Golden Harvest to Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan. Interview with the legendary producer Raymond Chow who received a Lifetime Achievement award at the 5th Asian Film Awards ceremony on March 21st, 2011. Full interview on Twitch coming soon.

http://www.twitchfilm.net/
http://www.asianfilmawards.asia

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FILMART 2011 : CLASSIC VS. EXPLOITATION (HONG KONG FILM ARCHIVE)

Monday, Jan 23, 2012 8:06PM / Video / Hong Kong Cinema

Excerpt of the interview of Hong Kong Film Archive programmer Sam Ho at the 15th Hong Kong FILMART about the double retrospective that he did with the Hong Kong International Film Festival: "All for One and One for All: Union Film" about the The Union Film Enterprise Ltd, one of the most important companies in Hong Kong's filmmaking history and "Kuei Chih-hung, the Rebel in the System" about Kuei Chih-hung, a cult Hong Kong director of the 70's who directed gangsters ("The Delinquent", "The Teahouse"), exploitation ("Bamboo House of Dolls", "Killers on Wheels") and horror movies ("The Killer Snakes", "Hex", "The Boxer's Omen" etc.). Full Sam Ho interview coming soon on Twitch. Music: "Black" by Meeting Quotations

Kuei Chih-hung's "Hex 邪" (1980)

http://www.twitchfilm.net/
http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/ce/CulturalService/HKFA/en/index.php
http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201106/02/P201106010244.htm
http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201104/08/P201104070208.htm
http://www.hkfilmart.com/hkfilmart
http://www.hkiff.org.hk/en/index.php
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Frederic Ambroisine is a Hong Kong cinema expert and documentary director who has made over 140 DVD bonus features for film distribution companies in France, the UK, the USA and Germany...
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Frederic Ambroisine is a Hong Kong cinema expert and documentary director who has made over 140 DVD bonus features for film distribution companies in France, the UK, the USA and Germany. Born in France, his passion and knowledge of Asian cinema led him to become a regular writer since 2002 for the French magazines Kumite, Asia Pulp and Mad Asia. He is an artistic consultant, writer and director of DVD extra features for Wild Side Film’s 100+ DVD/Blu-Ray collection “Shaw Brothers – Les Essentiels”. Fredederic visits Hong Kong annually and has interviewed hundreds of cinema industry personalities over the years. Many of his interviews and extra features have appeared on dvds/blu-rays from CTV International, Pathé Distribution, Des Films, StudioCanal, BQHL, One Plus One, Eureka Entertainment, Image Entertainment, Koch Media, Anolis, Tiberius Film and Galileo Medien Ag. His feature-length documentary “Fica: From the Near East to the Far East” was screened in 2010 at the Vesoul International Asian Film Festival. In 2011 Frederic directed the official “Making Of” documentary for Michele Placido’s action thriller “Le Guetteur” (The Lookout) starring Daniel Auteuil, Matthieu Kassovitz, Olivier Gourmet and Violante Placido.
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