Hustle with Speed: The 29th Hong Kong International Film Festival Charles Leary July 2005 Festival Reports March 22–April 6, 2005 The Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), finishing its 29th installment this past April, has long been a sophisticated locus not only for Hong Kong film culture and cin...
Permanent Satisfactions: The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s edited by Thomas Elsaesser, Alexander Horwath, and Noel King Charles Leary October 2004 Book Reviews I'll tell you one thing. There's nothing like building up an old automobile from scratch and wiping out one of these Detroit machines. That'll give you a set of emotions that'll stay with you. Know what I mean?...
What is the Matrix? Cinema, Totality, and Topophilia Charles Leary July 2004 Beyond the Grave of Genre Leary maps the vertiginous images of “totality” presented in The Matrix and its sequels.
Johnny Staccato: “The Shop of the Four Winds” Charles Leary April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Johnny Staccato: “The Shop of the Four Winds” (1959 USA 26 mins) Prod Co: Revue Studios Prod: Everett Chambers Dir: Boris Segal Scr: Sidney Michaels Phot: John F. Warren Ed: Edward Haire Mus: Elmer Berns...
The People Are Missing: The 25th Taipei Golden Horse International Film Festival (and 40th Golden Horse Awards) Charles Leary February 2004 Festival Reports Sometimes the third world film-maker finds himself before an illiterate public, swamped by American, Egyptian or Indian serials, and karate films, and he has to go through all this, it is this material that h...
What Goes Around, Comes Around: Infernal Affairs II and III and Running on Karma Charles Leary February 2004 Feature Articles Jumping back and forward in time, these recent blockbusters offer multiple allegories of Hong Kong's past, present and future.
Performing the Documentary, or Making It To the Other Bank Charles Leary July 2003 Feature Articles A recent, unconventional Chinese documentary blurs the lines between cinema, theatre and ‘reality.’
Infernal Affairs: High Concept in Hong Kong Charles Leary May 2003 Feature Articles Hong Kong's most ambitious blockbuster reveals shifts in the industrial logic of world cinema.
