The same five titles dominate the nominations in all major categories of the Hong Kong Film Awards 2024. Post film editor Edmund Lee predicts the winners and reflects on who or what actually should win.
Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Andy Lau reveal what they like about working with each other, playing good and bad guys in The Goldfinger, and how to boost the city’s movie industry.
Hong Kong films had ruled the roost at the local box office until the mid-1990s, when Hollywood films started to outdo them in popularity. By the end of the millennium, Hong Kong filmmakers were feeling desperate, wondering whether the city’s film industry could survive. The Infernal Affairs trilogy will screen from Aug 22 to 24 and Aug 27 as part.
Wuxia films didn't disappear at the start of the 21st century - the genre simply became subsumed into the big-budget "Chinese blockbusters" (daipan) which were then often co-productions between Hong Kong and mainland China. As Stephen Teo points out in his book Chinese Martial Arts, although wuxia films were banned in China from 1933 to the 1980s - successive governments.