UK cinema release, Optimum Releasing.
Wong Kar-wai’s first English language film, My Blueberry Nights, starring Norah Jones, gets a UK release on 22 February 2008.
The official site can be found here:
http://www.myblueberrynightsmovie.co.uk/
The Forbidden Kingdom, starring Jakie Chan and Jet Li, is released in UK cinemas on 11 July 2008 by Lionsgate.
Since 1999 Hong Kong Legends had released remastered versions of classics (relatively) old and new that had gained them an international reputation. But that wasn’t enough to keep them in business - why? (more…)
Following on from the recent Tsai Ming-liang season, BFI have another devoted to a respected but often overlooked Asian filmmaker, Jia Zhangke during February. The season includes Platform, The World and and extended run of Still Life.
You can find out more information and book tickets here.
Get the 1954 original of Godzilla free with the Guardian today…
The Guardian are giving away a DVD of the classic original 1954 Godzilla movie this Saturday.
Jackie Chan with Wooly and Worth? Oh, how the mighty have fallen…
Mark Duffield, director of Ghost Of Mae Nak, talks to easternKicks about how he came to be a British director on a Thai produced horror film, and what inspired him to make it… (more…)
In the UK we’ve never had a wider selection of titles to watch on DVD - so why are so many classics being overlooked?… (more…)
The new film by director Derek Yee (One Night In Mongkok) and starring Andy Lau and Daniel Wu is on release in the UK by Liberation Entertainment.
Unsettling and genuinely scary, the Pang brothers follow-up to Bangkok Dangerous is no pale Sixth Sense imitation… (more…)
