Hoi,

It's been asked countless times, but obviously I can't search for the old posts addressing the question as to where one can purchase the HKIFF and HKFA archive publications. Obviously there's the archive itself, but I'm sure there was another location?

Also, other than Kung Fu Hustle, what are the other HK christmas releases? Will Feng Xiao-gang's latest also be released in HK?

Cheers,
Alex...

If you're visiting Hong Kong, you can get them at the Film Archive or order them online (www.hkiff.org.hk) and arrange to pick them up. Two other shops with an assortment of recent HKIFF books and some Archive ones are the Kubrick shop at Broadway Cinematheque and the bookshop up a few floors in the HK Arts Centre. If you're ordering online, the above URL and the Archive sites are, I think, the only ways to go.

Feng's A WORLD WITHOUT THIEVES is now in HK cinemas and along with KUNG FU HUSTLE that's it for local Christmas releases this year.

Tim.

I just received a recent order this week. I'll second Tim's previous recommendation for Fame, Flame, Frame - Jupiter Wong Foto Exhibition. It's a very nice book. I also picked up the recent Cinema of Lee Sung-Fung and some other older titles. I cringe every time I think of the shipping and handling charges, so if you can pick them up locally, I'd advise you to take the opportunity.

I wonder if they are still planning on publishing Vol. 5 of the HK Filmography to cover the 1960's? I wrote the HKFA last year and they said it was due for a Fall/2004 publishing date. But fall has come and gone now, I sure hope it hasn't been sidetracked by their online efforts. I wonder if there are any copies of Vol. 1 floating around in any used books shops? Unfortunately, I missed getting it before it went OOP. :(

Yo Alex!

More on the subject of where to get HKIFF and HKFA publications, etc.:-
http://s8.invisionfree.com/MHVF/index.php?showtopic=333

More on the subject of Feng Xiaogang's latest (i.e., A WORLD WITHOUT THIEVES):-
http://s8.invisionfree.com/MHVF/index.php?showtopic=603

That's not a lot, is it? Especially in contrast to such as the end-of-2003 quartet of SOUND OF COLORS, MASTER Q: INCREDIBLE PET DETECTIVES, ANNA IN KUNGFU LAND, and GOLDEN CHICKEN 2 (Also, didn't INFERNAL AFFAIRS III's theatrical run go on into the early part of this year?). And while it's true that KUNGFU HUSTLE dwarfs all of the above-named titles in many ways, there's our having to count a Feng Xiaogang movie as a local Hong Kong movie to make things look respectable...

All in all, this does not augur well for Hong Kong cinema in the short-term. And BTW, according to a film industry report I read recently, it's anticipated that there may be as few as 55 Hong Kong feature film releases in 2005. :(

Hello Tim (and others),

This is a paraphernalia question in addition to a research one. Is it possible to get past programmes and film festival ephemera by contacting the society and then picking them up in the method that you have described? As for the academic question, does the centre publish a bulletin of its archived documents and paper records? What I mean is first-hand source materials (e.g. interviews, studio memos, news clippings) and not scholarly monographs or festival-related administrative paperwork. Although I presume that formal connexions would expedite the process, I'm enquiring as an amateur enthusiast with no direct relation to professional film scholarship--industry or academic--but who nonetheless has a keen interest in following up the occasional tantalising nugget found in the odd footnote or citation.

I agree with you. Those occasional printed interviews that appear in publication are tantalizing. It's good to know that they are being recorded, even if not currently available to fans. Maybe someday...

Yo Yvonne et al!

That's great, thanks for the info., just what I was after!

Cheers,
Alex...

Hello Dennis (and others),

Speaking of interviews and other intriguing articles of dedicated fandom, there's a fascinating new interview in this month's (December) Chinese _Reader's Digest_: "Wandering Between Modernity and Post-modernity: a Conversation between Professor Leo Lee Ou-fan and Stephen Chow." Although no date is listed for the exchange, the photography credits are given to the staff of Shantou University, where the conversation presumably took place. The piece lasts from page 34 to 45 with Professor Lee's segment consisting of pages 36 to 41 and Stephen Chow's from 42 to 45. Pages 34, 35, and 37 are filled with photos and graphics that take up most of the printed space. According to the cover, the issue can be purchased in Taiwan (NT$ 829), Japan (870 Yen), South Korea (6000 Won), Thailand (110 Baht), the Philippines (140 Philippine Pesos), Malaysia (RM 15.00), and Singapore (SG$ 9.50).

A really neat piece of reportage for Dr Lee's insights on low-brow Hong Kong humour and Chow's affinities for classical Chinese literature--it's as if the two switched sensebilites prior to the interview to talk about "A Chinese Odyssey," "King of Comedy," "Shaolin Soccer," and the upcoming "Kung Fu Hustle."

Yi Lee, thanks for that info. Sounds like that the article may be an expansion/excerpt from Stephen Chiau's recent University lecture tour to publicize KUNG FU HUSTLE. Not familiar with the Chinese Reader's Digest and alas, my Chinese reading comprehesion is LTZ (Less Than Zero). I thought I read an article online recently where he claimed, unconvincingly, that he didn't know what post-modern was (like Zhang Yimou professing to be apolitcal).