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in issue 58
The Poisoned Story: The Myth of Magic in Wait 'Til You're Older — "Even the least imaginative people are incredulous about aging: surely this isn't the only story, the only body I get to inhabit."
in issue 55
Beauties and Furies: Hong Kong's New Wave of Women Stars — "The women of To's world are not just endearingly kooky, but often unacceptably bizarre and amoral in their excited reactions to events."
in issue 51
Brigitte Lin — Sexual ambiguity is one of the hallmarks of Hong Kong cinema's golden age, and no one did it better than Lin Ching-Hsia, aka Brigitte Lin
in issue 50
The Immortality Blues: Talking with Fruit Chan About Dumplings — And other tasty subjects
in issue 49
Angela Mao — The "deadly China doll" widely viewed, during her heyday in the early 1970s, as the female Bruce Lee
in issue 48
Compliments to the Chef: Three . . . Extremes: Dumplings Expertly Mixes Social Critique and Questionable Cuisine — Bring dramamine to Fruit Chan's best film to date
in issue 47
Unhappy Together: Wong Kar-Wai's 2046 — "Why can't it be like before?"
in issue 42
Black Rose 2 — "I love people reading things with hearts!"
The Deaf-Mute Heroine — A fine example of the female swordplay genre, with Helen Ma vividly incarnating the strong, literally silent action hero as a woman
in issue 33
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Art Film Hidden Inside the Chop-Socky Flick — Ang Lee: third-stage feminist?
in issue 31
Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Ang Lee's homage to the Hong Kong martial arts film
in issue 20
Four Hong Kong Films — Enjoy Yourself To-night, Final Justice, Midnight Zone, and Once Upon a Time in China and America
in issue 19
Hong Kong's "Who's the Man?" series — Patrick Chan's Who's the Woman, Who's the Man? and He's a Woman, She's a Man — Bookend satires of fame, pop music, and forbidden kisses
Tsui Hark's The Blade — Sweaty, muscular male flesh ready to be assaulted
Patrick Leung's Beyond Hypothermia — A brilliantly skilled hitwoman with no family, no friends, and for most of the film no name
in issue 17
Jackie Chan in Supercop — Jackie's almost eclipsed — almost — by the great Michelle Khan. Watch out for that building!
in issue 16
Jackie Chan in Rumble in the Bronx — Jackie plays a typical role here, the sweet, naive, but principled bumpkin who is forced against his will into violent confrontations and life-threatening stunts
the cinema hong kong issue
Issue 13 of our discontinued print edition was published in 1994. This issue, devoted entirely to Hong Kong cinema, has been used as course material in university film studies classes and has been cited in several scholarly articles. Long out of print, the entire issue is now available online. See the table of contents below.
Alive and Kicking: The Kung Fu Film Is a Legend
HK's
martial arts film stylishly bridge time, space, and now cultures
Achievement and Crisis: Hong Kong Cinema in the '80s
A
comprehensive look at a seminal decade in one of the world's great cinemas
An Evening with Jackie Chan
Jackie spills his guts — this
time verbally
A Brief Historical Tour of the Hong Kong Martial Arts Film
Hong
Kong's martial arts madness in legend, history, and, oh yeah, the movies
Swordsman II and The East Is Red: The "Hong Kong Film," Entertainment,
and Gender
Two HK classics blur — make that erase — gender
boundaries with thrilling results
Interview with John Woo
Hong
Kong's master of balletic blood 'n bulletplay speaks!
A Better Tomorrow? American Masochism and Hong Kong Action Films
Among their thrills, Woo’s homoerotic bullet ballets offered welcome distraction from 1997’s
doomsday scenarios
