HKIFF summer IFF

自你懂事後，你看過多少部電影了？

回想早在國三時首部下來看的動畫，然後在其後短短的兩年後，我已經很難去數出看過的動畫數目了。更不要論今天了。

まるまるアイス

看來到city super 走趟，真的可以找到不少奇怪的東東。

Modern city life and city's relations in Chungking Express

In the recent decades of the development of Hong Kong Cinema, especially in the time of Hong Kong New Wave, there are really number representable Hong Kong filmmakers. Wong Kai-wai, being one of the late Hong Kong New Wave filmmaker, is famous and popular in his works with post-modern features. One of his romantic comedy genre work - Chungking Express, is noted in expressing the urban cityscape of Hong Kong, particular in the place of Tsimshatsui and Central. Similar to Wong's previous films, the expressing of the themes and motifs of time, love, lost and searching for self-identification. These elements enable Chungking Express to give a good picture of protagonists' frustration and loneliness in Hong Kong to the audience. In this essay, I will start from the modern urbanscape sitting in Hong Kong, and try to figure out the modern city life style in relating to time and memory. Further, I would try to focus on the inter-personal relations inside the geographical identity of Hong Kong.

Nationalism in Once upon a Time in China

As being the new remake of the continuation of Huang Fei-hung series from Kwan Tak-hing, Tsui Hark has used the new Huang Fei-hung(played by Jet Li) to illustrate a new from of kung fu film in terms of the derivation from the 70s martial art films and to express his own cult style in his production. In Once upon a Time in China, won a big success in box office and also brought along with a new representation nationalism form to foreign audience. In contrast with the defined perception in Encyclopedia Britannica of nationalism: loyalty and devotion to the state such that national interests are placed above individual or global interest, the "nationalism" in Tsui Hark's mind should be featured in the form of national style, instead of the blindly expression of nationalism. Here, I will try to use Once upon a Time in China to illustrate the nationalism from Tsui Hark, and indicate its significant.