September 22, 2005 ISSUE Next Issue: Thursday, October 5, 2005
COVER STORY
2005 Los Angeles Korean Film Festival recap
The L.A. Korean Film Festival has come and gone, but don't worry: we were there to witness it. A whirlwind tour through the festival's highs and more highs.
The (Un)Professional
Usually the silent accompaniment to the more gregarious and charismatic Tsai Ming-liang, art house cinema's most unlikely superstar Lee Kang-sheng was forced to speak for himself with the debut of his first feature, The Missing. APA sat with him briefly before the film's Los Angeles premiere at UCLA.
Chinese National Ballet Presents a Kind of Red
The Chinese National Ballet production of Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern is nice to look at. The question is, what is it not telling us?
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Just another Hong Kong cop flick?
Can One Nite in Mongkok resuscitate the slumbering giant of Hong Kong cinema: the cop flick? Or is it merely shooting blanks? APA discusses.
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C L I P S
September 22: News Bites
John Cho cooks up a storm, 2005 San Diego Asian Film festival, San Francisco goes lunar, Adopt-a-crane information and more in this edition of News Bites.
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F O R E I G N
September 22, 2005: News From Abroad
Hong Kong Disneyland Opens; Tokyo Film Festival Debuts Project Market; UCLA Expands Operations in Shanghai; India-British Film Co-production Agreement in the Works; Weinstein Co.'s New Asia VP Hired. This and much more in the latest edition of News From Abroad.
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