“To All Beautiful Losers”: Political Pessimism and the Hong Kong Sports Movie Brian Hu July 2020 Feature Articles This article has been peer-reviewed. In the sports drama Dim ng bou (Weeds on Fire, Chan Chi-fat, 2016), high school principal Lo Kwong-Fai proposes to the administration his idea of forming Hong Kong’s firs...
The World Before Our Eyes: Taipei International Film Festival Brian Hu May 2006 Festival Reports June 26–July 7, 2005 Is there no better metaphor for the ubiquitous “international film festival” than the theme park at the center of Jia Zhang-ke’s The World (2004)? I’ve seen the film at more than one...
Formula 17: Testing a Formula for Mainstream Cinema in Taiwan Brian Hu February 2005 Feature Articles After 20 years of producing cinema at each extreme – lowbrow mainstream fodder and a formal, serious and politically engaged cinema – Taiwan has turned out its first cross-over hit in the form of a youthful tale of gay utopia!
To Each Their Own: Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia edited by Jenny Kwok Wah Lau Brian Hu July 2004 Book Reviews The blanket terms “Asian cinema” and “East Asian cinema” tend to elide the distinctive ways individual nations, regions, and cities have represented themselves in the face of cultural domination. Jenny Kwok Wah...
Goodbye City, Goodbye Cinema: Nostalgia in Tsai Ming-liang’s The Skywalk is Gone Brian Hu December 2003 Feature Articles Serial alienation in the modern city: a discussion of the multiple "lost objects" of mourning in Tsai Ming-liang's recent short film, ranging from bygone eras of Chinese and Taiwanese cinema to Tsai's own previous features.
