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East Screen / West Screen #21 – Frequent Flying Fists of Fortune

Mar 5

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NEWS:

Intermission: Il mondo di Suzie Wong From Cinema Festival (iTunes Link)

EAST SCREEN:

WEST SCREEN:

  • Up in the Air (2009)

Intermission: Come Fly with Me by Frank Sinatra (iTunes Link)

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East Screen / West Screen #20 – Anthologies and Mythologies

Feb 28

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NOTES:

Episode #68 of Podcast on Fire has some really good in depth discussion of the character of Su Chi-er and his appearances in other media.  Worth checking out if you are a fan of the character or want some more insight into True Legend.

The Filmbiz Asia site is up and running.  You can find it over at http://www.filmbiz.asia/

NEWS:

Intermission: Beams by Agatsuma (iTunes Link)

EAST SCREEN:

  • HOT SUMMER DAYS (HK 2010)

WEST SCREEN:

  • VALENTINE”S DAY (US 2010)
  • PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF (US 2010)

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East Screen / West Screen #19 – Chinese New Year Special 2010

Feb 18

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It’s Chinese New Year, and that means it’s time for family gatherings, red envelopes full of cash, and movies, movies , movies.  After a week long feast of new films, Kevin and I talk about the latest holiday features from Hong Kong.  [Also in a bit of domain grabbing news, I managed to get ahold of www.kongcast.com so if you have a particular hatred of the hyphen, you no longer need fear visiting the site.  We can also be accessed via www.kongcast.net just in case you have a thing against .coms ;-) ]

NEWS:

CHINESE NEW YEAR FILMS:

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East Screen / West Screen #18 – Confucius says, ‘Watch my movie!’

Feb 12

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Well, we are back.  Having survived mixer madness and found a more stable solution, the ES/WS podcast lives again.  While the month long break has likely meant that any regular listeners have scattered to the infinite winds of alternative online media, Kevin and I hope to once again produce the show on a regular basis.  This week as I work out the production kinks and settings of the new mixer (Mackie Profx8) we keep the show short with a discussion of Chow Yun Fat’s Confucius.  We also spend a few moments giving some video recommendations to help get into the Chinese New Year spirit.

East Screen:

Confucius (HK/China – 2010)

Chinese New Year recommendations:

All’s Well, Ends Well (HK – 1992)

Fat Choi Spirit (HK – 2002)

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East Screen / West Screen #17 – Holidaze

Jan 3

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Back after a whirlwind holiday in the US, it’s time to catch up on a bunch of the films that Kevin and I have been viewing over the holiday.  With this being the last episode of 2009, we have an extra long show to look at the biggest holiday films in both Hong Kong and Hollywood.

EAST SCREEN:

Storm Warriors (HK 2009)


Bodyguards and Assassins (HK/China 2009)


A Simple Noodle Story (China 2009)


WEST SCREEN:

Twilight: New Moon (US 2009)


Avatar (US 2009)


Sherlock Holmes (UK/US 2009)

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East Screen / West Screen #16 – Jump the Dragon

Dec 13

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NEWS:

A Better Tomorrow remake (Screen Daily)

EAST SCREEN:

Jump (HK/China 2009)

Mulan (China 2009)

WEST SCREEN:

9 (US 2009)

FLYING BUDDHA (賣飛佛):

SPECIAL: Storm Riders

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East Screen / West Screen #15 – Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go

Dec 7

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It’s the first show of December and the weather calls for Rain with chance of scattered ninjas…Kevin and I are here to try and make sense of the re-emergence of the iconic assassin of ’80s.  We also talk about the recent Golden Horse awards, the use of digital video vs. film, and Alec Baldwin’s self-debasement…among other things. 

 

NEWS:

46th Golden Horse Awards (LoveHKfilm.com)

Ben Kingsley seeks money to make the Taj Mahal…on film (Reuters)

Alec Balwin blasts own career (Reuters)

EAST SCREEN:

Love at Seventh Sight (Hong Kong/China 2009)

 

WEST SCREEN:

Ninja Assassin (US 2009)

 

FLYING BUDDHA (賣飛佛):

Azumi 1&2 (Japan 2003)

Speed Racer (USA 2008)

 

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East Screen / West Screen #14 – Talking Turkey

Nov 27

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a-christmas-carol-posterTLADmongkokIt’s the pre-Turkey Day show, and Kevin and I discuss a new local Wong Jing film, the Japanese film Kaiji, and Jim Carey’s latest take on the Dicken’s classic about Scrooge.  gobble gobble…

 

NEWS:
Twilight’s New Moon nothing to bark at (Reuters)

Downsizing Disney (SCMP)

TIFF’s best-of-decade poll results (Reuters)

  

EAST SCREEN:

Kaiji (Japan 2009)

To Live and Die in Mongkok (Hong Kong 2009)

 

WEST SCREEN:

Disney’s A Christmas Carol (US 2009)

 

FLYING BUDDHA VIDEO PICKS (賣飛佛):

Scrooged (US 1988)

A Muppet Christmas Carol (US 1992)

  

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East Screen / West Screen #12 – A Maid, A Mouse and a few Movies

Nov 8

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NEWS:

Hong Kong Disney to compete with Shanghai (SCMP)

The Stool Pigeon starts filming (Hollywood Reporter)

Zhang Yimou remakes Blood Simple (Hollywood Reporter)

Nury Vittaci’s article on Chinese Cinema (The Standard / Nury’s Blog)

Korea’s The Housemaid gets a makeover (Hollywood Reporter)


EAST SCREEN:

Rebellion (Hong Kong 2009)

WEST SCREEN:

This is It (US 2009)

FLYING BUDDHA (賣飛佛):

The Housemaid (Korea 1960)

Plains Trains, and Automobiles (USA 1987)

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East Screen / West Screen #11 – Between Chung Yeung and Halloween

Nov 2

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(Apologies for the late posting on the site, work and Halloween both piled on last week, but we made it in time for Christmas, which is a much more important holiday anyway…just ask Jack ;) [honestly, Halloween is actually my favorite])

In this episode Kevin and I talk about some of the films slated for Chinese New Year 2010 (including the Andy Lau film Future X-Cops mentioned previously – see earlier post for link to the trailer) as well as some of the recent releases listed below.  We end with a few picks to enhance your Halloween.

NEWS:

Dreamworks to produce live action Ghost in the Shell (Variety)

Saw VI doesn’t cut it. (Reuters)

EAST SCREEN:

Poker King (Hong Kong 2009)

The Message (China 2009)

WEST SCREEN:

Taking Woodstock (US 2009)

Astro Boy (US/China 2009) link to Frederick L. Schodt’s response to NY Times review (his is the 4th comment).

FLYING BUDDHA (賣飛佛):

Halloween Picks 2009

Out of the Dark (Hong Kong 1995)

Rahtree: Flower of the Night (Thailand 2003)


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