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the Big Ask march
Friday, Aug 24, 2007 3:24PM / Standard Entry
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胡楓的年代 The era of Wu Feng
Tuesday, Aug 21, 2007 6:46PM / Standard Entry
突然心血來潮，想寫個中文博客，可能因為剛剛看了一套〈粵語殘片〉吧，是胡楓的「一帆風順」，還有李香琴和鄭君棉！小時候讀下午班，所以早上可以跟外婆一起看電視節目〈粵語長片〉，我們香港人則喜歡叫它做〈粵語殘片〉，因為全是很舊的黑白片。可能是這樣子，我特別愛看香港五六十年代的黑白片，往往令我想起過了身的外婆和舊居。到現在，我還是覺得當年的明星很有〈星味〉，衣著和言行舉止都很迷人。而我最愛的就是胡楓和張英才！現今因為有了ＤＶＤ，我就有更多的機會去看這些舊片，所以每次回港，我都要〈上倉〉！
I suddenly had the urge to write a Chinese blog, probably because I just watched an old Cantonese film called "Yi Fan Feng Shun" (Smooth Sailing,) with Wu Feng, Li Xiang Qing and Zheng Jun Mien. They're famous Hong Kong actors from the 50s and 60s. When I was young, my primary school classes were all in the afternoon, so my mornings were always free, I usually just stayed home and watched old black and white films on telly with my grandmother, (there was this telly program called "Cantonese feature films" at 10am daily, and we loved to call it “Cantonese ruined/old films" cause most of them were so old and scratched up.) Maybe that's why I particularly love Hong Kong films from the 50s and 60s, they reminded me of my late grandmother and my old home. I still find the actors from that era so charismatic, they processed a kind of charisma and "stardom" that I rarely find in contemporary actors. My favorite ones are Wu Feng and Zhang Ying Cai (they looked so classy and irresistible in those suits circa. 1950s, and with a fedora too... then forget it! Now why can't men look like that these days!?) With modern technology, a lot of these old films are being re-released on DVDs now, and so I got to stock them up every time I go back to HK!
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Eric Lin
Monday, Aug 20, 2007 11:11PM / Standard Entry
Just a warm welcome to one of my best friends, aka my brother, aka my partner in crime - Eric Lin - for joining the AnD family. Can't believe it's been over a decade since we've known each other, I still remember our first rendezvous in the office of Film Arts Foundation, when both of us were still living in San Francisco then. I received a small grant from FAF to make my very short film (before film school,) I posted a little sign on the little bulletin board, looking for cast / crew help, and Eric answered my post... and that's when and where our friendship and collaboration started.
I love what he wrote in his first blog. It is exactly like what he said, film-making is a battle, especially independent film-making. Eric and I fought many battles together, since the very beginning, and along the way during each battle, we bonded and gained a few more family members, a few more super-friends. The bats are growing in this bat cave. Us mutants will find and support each other to continue this fight.
He's an amazing cinematographer, a great writer/director and above all, an amazing friend. And here is my public apology for putting him in *all* the inhumane shooting/fighting conditions, time and time again, one film after another... (so E, you ready for our next fight?
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So go check out his profile page and give him a big and warm welcome.
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Vienna Teng
Monday, Aug 13, 2007 3:56PM / Standard Entry
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Capitulation (US folks)
Wednesday, Aug 8, 2007 4:03PM / Standard Entry
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- Kit Hui was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. She received her MFA from Columbia University's Graduate Film Program...
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