HK Magazine: How did SIFF come to existence?
Bede Cheng: We’ve been doing this for the last seven years. Every year for the Hong Kong International Film Festival, there are just so many films around, more than we can possibly show during the two-week festival period. Also, great new films...
(USA) Comedy/Crime/Drama. Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey. Category IIA. 103 minutes. Opens Sep 13.
Welcome to Carthage, a small East Texas town that’s home to many country music legends, a devoted Christian community and a convicted...
(USA) Action/Thriller. Directed by Tony Gilroy. Starring Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Oscar Isaac, Zeljko Ivanek. Category IIB. 135 minutes. Opened Aug 9.
There’s a downside to being a valuable commodity: people just won’t leave you alone. Ask the “Bourne”...
My mother was a social worker and my father was a part-time policeman who also worked at a law firm. When I was little, my parents were pretty strict with me. I wasn’t allowed to watch TV. After elementary school, they got divorced, and from then on I got a lot of freedom.
I’ve always...
(USA) Animation/Adventure. Directed by Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell. Voiced by Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly, Craig Ferguson, Julie Walters. Category I. 100 minutes. Opens Aug 9.
For a film that breaks new ground by hiring a female writer-director and featuring a...
(Hong Kong) Comedy. Directed by Pang Ho-cheung. Starring Chapman To, Ronald Cheng, Dada Chan, Kristal Tin, Simon Lui. Category III. 92 minutes. Opens Aug 9.
As if to compensate for the lack of cursing in his last pic “Love in the Buff,” where the toned-down raunchiness was a decision...
(USA) Directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon. Voiced by Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Frances McDormand, Jessica Chastain, Bryan Cranston, Martin Short. Category I. 93 minutes. Opens Aug 2.
First things first: the level of enjoyment...
HK Magazine: Are your parents musical?
Ron Kingston: My parents are in fashion business, which I’ve never really been interested in. They import ladies wear from Hong Kong, and have passed through a few times. But I’d say they’re musical people—my mother played the piano and...
(France/Germany) Comedy/Drama. Written and directed by Sylvain Estibal. Starring Sasson Gabay, Baya Belal, Myriam Tekaïa, Gassan Abbas, Ulrich Tukur. Category IIA. 99 minutes. Opened Jul 19.
For most people, fishing a pig out of the sea would probably result in newspaper headlines and a pork...
