Category — Film

Comedy ‘Fortune Cookies‘ is the first film from new British Chinese writer/director Brenda Lee to be shot in the Midlands and London in 2012. Les Dennis stars and you can see a promo clip of him below “losing the plot”.


Family vs Ambition. Love vs Duty. Chekhov vs Chicken Feet?!
Set to star Elaine Tan (CSI), David Yip (Chinese Detective), Pik Sen Lim (Dr Who), Meline Danielewicz (The Tempest), David Tse (Spooks) and Ozzie Yue (Father Ted) amongst others.

Will Susan Lee forfeit her dream stage debut to save the family Chinese takeaway from repossession by appearing alongside her tradition yet extrememly embarrassing family on Les Dennis’ TV game show ‘Fame To Fortune’?

Watch an interview with our director and find out more about the educational element of the film – working with young people to provide them with a Learning, Literacy and Livelihoods workshop programme – at www.sponsume.com/project/fortune-cookies-feature-film.

More on the website www.fortunecookiesmovie.co.uk.

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In theatres on Feb 9th and 15th only apparent, is the new documentary I am Bruce Lee. If you haven’t caught the trailer yet, check it below.

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Bizarrely, in the bamboo forest where The House of Flying Daggers was filmed, there appears to be an attempt to turn it into a tourist site by featuring sculptures of two of the film’s stars: Andy Lau and Zhang Ziyi.

We’re not sure if this is an official tourist attraction, what with the half naked bust of Zhang Ziyi appearing to bath in the mud, but the likenesses of both stars isn’t half bad.

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Twitch Film reports on the Hong Kong Film Archive‘s announcement to screen their pick of the 100 must see movies, chosen from their archive of 90,000 films. A film will be shown every two weeks making the programme run for four years!

There’s plenty of martial arts favourites in there (our favourite being any of Tsui Hark’s Wong Fei Hung movies), together with a selection from all genres. But with films running from 1916 to 1999, its quite a list for any film fan to peruse.

Check out the full list of the Hong Kong Film Archive’s 100 Must-See Movies on Twitch

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Claudia Varosio has a clean, unfussy illustration style in a few of her interpretations of film posters. We like her mood-matching “In The Mood for Love” poster, but our favourite has to be the “Seven Samurai” poster. Both are on sale for $19.

Movie Posters by Claudia Varosio

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Jiro Dreams of Sushi was shown in April 2011 at the Tribeca Film Festival, but will hopefully reach general release some time soon. It looks to be a gorgeously shot and interesting documentary following the 85-year-old master sushi chef Jiro Ono.

From the Tribeca website:

…Jiro Ono, owner of the esteemed 10-seat, $300-a-plate Sukiyabashi Jiro restraurant in Tokyo. From the ins and outs of the tuna auction to the proper way to massage an octopus, director David Gelb dynamically profiles all aspects of the craft in mouthwatering style and detail, paying lushly photographed homage to the process of preparing the artisan sushi that earned Jiro an elite three Michelin stars.

Catch a trailer of the film below:

More info on the Tribeca website

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The 1988 cult anime film Akira set in a futuristic Tokyo has been condensed into one poster. Apparently, every event that happens is depicted in this poster, designed by Tyler Stout for the Alamo/Mondo Mystery Movie.

View a larger version here

Mondo posters are extremely limited editions (we’ve never been able to get one) and this rare Akira poster could only have been bought at the Alamo – if you had bought tickets for a film you didn’t know about yet.

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If you’re in London later this week, be sure to check out some of the films showing at the annual Terracotta Festival – now in it’s 3rd year, presenting a choice of hand-picked films from the far east. Check out the festival trailer below:

The line up is an impressive list of mostly UK or European premiere titles so catch them when you can! Our picks: the opening film The Lost Bladesman (Donnie Yen), Choy Lee Fut (Sammo Hung) and Gallants.

More on www.TerracottaFestival.com

The 3rd ANNUAL TERRACOTTA FESTIVAL
14 films selected to represent the best in current Asian Cinema
5th – 8th May 2011
Prince Charles Cinema, London
Tickets on sale now via Prince Charles Cinema website (or by phone or in person at Prince Charles Cinema).

Ticket prices are as follows:
Ticket prices £8.50 or (£7.50 for PCC Members)
Festival Pass: £70 (£58 for PCC Members) access all films with reserved seating

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Our friend, actor Jing Lusi, recently went to Malaysia to promote ‘Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa‘ (International title: ‘The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines‘). Since it was released in Malaysia on the 10th March, it has since broken box office records and is currently at number one in the charts. The beautiful Jing plays the Chinese princess in the film, which combines romance, adventure and martial arts against the backdrop of ancient Malay, Roman and Chinese civilisations. Watch the trailer below for more….

Jing is also in a British gangster thriller called Jack Falls, which features a lot of British actors including Tamer Hassan, Dexter Fletcher, Olivia Hallinan, and Jason Flemyng.

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For any aspiring writers or directors from the UK’s East and Southeast Asian disaspora, this is for you…

CINEAST is a digital short film programme produced by BBC Writersroom and B3 Media, which aims to support, develop and produce short films from the next wave of emerging writing, directing and acting talent from the UK’s East and Southeast Asian* diaspora. CINEAST will produce up to 4 digital shorts which will also form part of an industry showcase in October 2011.

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