# Stanley Kwan

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1116 - The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

Arousing action/drama by legendary director Robert Aldrich? Starring Jimmy Stewart?! Yes, please! Add to this some tense survival stakes, and a real man's-man ensemble cast, and a dusty Sahara-meets-Lifeboat-meets-The-Great-Escape plot contrivances, and you know you're in for a good time. If you'd…

1129 - Rouge (1987)

Want to listen to a couple of dummies realize that there are such things as era-jumping supernatural romance films that are set in Hong Kong? And that everyone else already knew this? No? Well, at least they're happy to report that it was a delightful surprise when they finally got around to seeing…

Valentine's Day 2023 – KISS ME GOODBYE (1982) and MY FAVORITE WIFE (1940) + FEAR & MOVIEGOING IN TORONTO – TIFF Lightbox - Love Will Tear Us Apart Series

Our Valentine's Day 2023 episode is all about loves from the past who have inconveniently returned. In My Favorite Wife (1940), Irene Dunne is newly remarried Cary Grant's presumed dead wife, while in Kiss Me Goodbye (1982), James Caan is Sally Field's actually dead, or undead, husband, interferin…

Ep. 38: Hong Kong Spectral Cinema and the 1997 Turnover [Cantonese]

In this episode, we aimed to explore Hong Kong's spectral cinema from the 1980s - the 2000s, the perception of 1997, and Hong Kong's changing cultural and political identity. During the discussion, the hosts discussed three ghost films, namely Stanley Kwan's ROUGE (胭脂扣,1987), Clara Law's THE REINCA…

AMP Interviews: Sasha Chuk

On the occasion of her film Fly me to the Moon premiering at Tokyo International Film Festival, Sasha Chuk talks about writing, directing and acting in the movie, her cooperation with Stanley Kwan and Jun Li, the casting in the movie, the whether we are destined to become like our parents, the prot…

PETER YU 俞宏榮 - TELEVISION & FILM ACTOR

Peter Yu 俞宏榮 is an actor in local Chinese television and films. You may have seen Peter in the films "A Land Imagined"(directed by Yeo Siew Hua) and "Wonderland" (directed by Chai Yee Wei). "A Land Imagined" (released in 2018) played at the 29th Singapore International Film Festival, where it was n…

Center Stage feat. Jason Miller

Writer, critic, and Hit Factory Discord all-star Jason Miller returns to the show to discuss Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan's 'Center Stage', an experimental biopic exploring the life and work of Chinese silent film star Ruan Lingyu who achieved an unprecedented celebrity before tragically taking …

logging back on to talk I Love LA | american in peril

I'm back bitches!! in this one we discuss why I left, the etymology of "slop", I Love LA, hyper-localism, TV being kind of bad, and getting off that damn phone. acknowledging the audio is a little busted, troubleshooting for next time!! but it's my right to film on my laptop... you'll take that fro…

A.C. Film Club #149 - Centre Stage / The Ballad of Narayama

Elwood and Stephen take on a double feature starting with Stanley Kwan's award winning but Oscar snubbed biography of Ruan Lingyu Centre Stage charting her life and career. Listener Marcus completes the double bill with his The Ballard of Narayama by director Shōhei Imamura following the lives of …

Stanley Kwan on the ghosts that outlive us in 'Center Stage'

Director Stanley Kwan's 1991 film 'Center Stage' returns in a 4K restoration marking its 35th anniversary, revisiting how experimental the biopic was for its time, arriving in Hong Kong as a commercial gamble rather than the awards bait the genre has since become. He recalls whether anyone pushed b…