Patriotic titles continue to lead the China box office, with historical drama 1921 coming in second.
Patriotic titles continued to dominate the China box office this weekend, with Bona Film Group’s Chinese Doctors opening in pole position with $53.3m in its first three days (July 9-11), according to figures from theatrical consultancy Artisan Gateway.
Produced by Bona Film Group, the film reunites Hong Kong director Andrew Lau with the stars of his 2019 blockbuster The Captain — Zhang Hanyu and Yuan Quan — and also features Jackson Yee, who makes a special appearance in the film. The story follows a group of medical...
Patriotic titles continued to dominate the China box office this weekend, with Bona Film Group’s Chinese Doctors opening in pole position with $53.3m in its first three days (July 9-11), according to figures from theatrical consultancy Artisan Gateway.
Produced by Bona Film Group, the film reunites Hong Kong director Andrew Lau with the stars of his 2019 blockbuster The Captain — Zhang Hanyu and Yuan Quan — and also features Jackson Yee, who makes a special appearance in the film. The story follows a group of medical...
- 7/12/2021
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
This fictionalisation of what happened when a plane’s windscreen shattered 32,000ft over Tibet ramps up the suspense in enjoyably predictable ways
This brazenly manipulative but undeniably effective disaster movie is as corny as an industrial-sized bag of week-old popcorn but proves that the Chinese film industry really has entered the late stages of capitalist aesthetic degeneration. Directed by Andrew Lau, who shepherded the glorious Infernal Affairs trilogy to completion, this based-on-a-true-story drama offers a suspenseful fictionalisation of what happened when the cockpit windshield on a Sichuan Airlines flight shattered unexpectedly while the plane was at 32,000ft over the Tibetan plateau.
Craggy-featured Zhang Hanyu anchors the story as the titular captain Liu Changjian, a terse, disciplined ex-air force pilot whose fortitude and quick reactions are tested by this sudden crisis. But the fun part is the way the film stays in the well-worn grooves of genre expectation with the supporting cast of characters,...
This brazenly manipulative but undeniably effective disaster movie is as corny as an industrial-sized bag of week-old popcorn but proves that the Chinese film industry really has entered the late stages of capitalist aesthetic degeneration. Directed by Andrew Lau, who shepherded the glorious Infernal Affairs trilogy to completion, this based-on-a-true-story drama offers a suspenseful fictionalisation of what happened when the cockpit windshield on a Sichuan Airlines flight shattered unexpectedly while the plane was at 32,000ft over the Tibetan plateau.
Craggy-featured Zhang Hanyu anchors the story as the titular captain Liu Changjian, a terse, disciplined ex-air force pilot whose fortitude and quick reactions are tested by this sudden crisis. But the fun part is the way the film stays in the well-worn grooves of genre expectation with the supporting cast of characters,...
- 10/4/2019
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
- ‘Second Wave’ Hong Kong filmmaker Clara Law (Floating Life) is finally returning to the director’s chair after a four year sabbatical with her first Chinese film since 1994’s King of Western Chu (her last film before bolting to Australia prior to Hong Kong’s handover to China in 1997). Like a Dream, which Law announced at the Shanghai Film Festival, is a romancer that spans the cities of Shanghai, Taipei, and New York. She told Variety ‘The idea for the film sprang from a conversation I had with a friend who remarked how much Shanghai resembles New York these days.’ The film stars Hk mega-idol Daniel Wu (The Banquet) as a native Chinese-American who gets wrapped up in a bit of international romantic intrigue. Bubbly Quan Yuan (For the Children) plays Wu’s love interest. Law’s films often examine the themes of migration and cultural identity so the
- 6/18/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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