Directed by Ann Hui and written by Ivy Ho, who actually won a number of awards for her work, “July Rhapsody” presents a portrait of middle life crisis, by additionally including a rather interesting back story that finds its parallels in the present.
July Rhapsody will be screening in Canada and the US starting May 11th, while it will be coming out on home video in September, courtesy of Cheng Cheng Films
Lam and Ching have been married for 20 years and have two sons. While their relationship is smooth, Lam feels that his friends, who have found financial success in the entertainment and business sectors, are more accomplished than him, and their belittling every time they meet does not help. Lam is a teacher of classic Chinese literature at an elite school, and is happy with his job actually, but there is an issue there too. A rather beautiful, smart,...
July Rhapsody will be screening in Canada and the US starting May 11th, while it will be coming out on home video in September, courtesy of Cheng Cheng Films
Lam and Ching have been married for 20 years and have two sons. While their relationship is smooth, Lam feels that his friends, who have found financial success in the entertainment and business sectors, are more accomplished than him, and their belittling every time they meet does not help. Lam is a teacher of classic Chinese literature at an elite school, and is happy with his job actually, but there is an issue there too. A rather beautiful, smart,...
- 4/24/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Hong Kong-based Celestial Tiger Entertainment (Cte) has renewed its exclusive, multi-year output deals with Hong Kong studios Emperor Motion Pictures (Emp), Mega-Vision Project Workshop (Mvpw) and Universe Entertainment.
Under the terms of the deals, Cte has secured first and exclusive pay-tv rights, as well as pay-per-view (PPV), video-on-demand (VOD) and over-the-top (Ott) rights, to each studio’s upcoming slate of movies for Cte’s Celestial Movies channel in Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia.
Upcoming Emp productions include Heaven In The Dark, a drama reuniting Jacky Cheung and Karena Lam who both starred in July Rhapsody in 2002; Fruit Chan’s suspense thriller Kill Time, starring Ethan Ruan and Angelababy; and The Mobfathers, starring Anthony Wong and Chapman To.
Mvpw’s slate includes the third installment of blockbuster franchise From Vegas To Macau, which will star Andy Lau in addition to Chow Yun Fat and Nick Cheung. Mvpw is also in pre-production on The Invincible 12, which marks the 100th film from...
Under the terms of the deals, Cte has secured first and exclusive pay-tv rights, as well as pay-per-view (PPV), video-on-demand (VOD) and over-the-top (Ott) rights, to each studio’s upcoming slate of movies for Cte’s Celestial Movies channel in Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia.
Upcoming Emp productions include Heaven In The Dark, a drama reuniting Jacky Cheung and Karena Lam who both starred in July Rhapsody in 2002; Fruit Chan’s suspense thriller Kill Time, starring Ethan Ruan and Angelababy; and The Mobfathers, starring Anthony Wong and Chapman To.
Mvpw’s slate includes the third installment of blockbuster franchise From Vegas To Macau, which will star Andy Lau in addition to Chow Yun Fat and Nick Cheung. Mvpw is also in pre-production on The Invincible 12, which marks the 100th film from...
- 7/28/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The 19th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) has announced its Korean Cinema Retrospective will spotlight veteran director and producer Jung Jin-woo.
Active from the 1960s to the mid-1990s, Jung directed over 50 films including The Only Son, Border Line, Green Rain, A Student Boarder, Chun-Hui, Oyster Village and Does Cuckoo Cry at Night.
Top Korean actresses such as Kim Ji-mee, Moon Hee, Nam Jeong-im and Yoon Jeong-hee rose to stardom through his films.
Biff said: “Jung Jin-woo distinguished himself in social melodrama films dealing with separation on the Korean peninsula or social class barriers in the 60s. He also broadened his field to various issues in the 70s and focused on depicting women’s lives on the verge of crisis in the late 70s to mid- 80s.”
As a producer, he was responsible for more than 130 films including Im Kwon-taek’s 1973 war film Testimony.
He was also successful in the import and distribution of foreign films as...
Active from the 1960s to the mid-1990s, Jung directed over 50 films including The Only Son, Border Line, Green Rain, A Student Boarder, Chun-Hui, Oyster Village and Does Cuckoo Cry at Night.
Top Korean actresses such as Kim Ji-mee, Moon Hee, Nam Jeong-im and Yoon Jeong-hee rose to stardom through his films.
Biff said: “Jung Jin-woo distinguished himself in social melodrama films dealing with separation on the Korean peninsula or social class barriers in the 60s. He also broadened his field to various issues in the 70s and focused on depicting women’s lives on the verge of crisis in the late 70s to mid- 80s.”
As a producer, he was responsible for more than 130 films including Im Kwon-taek’s 1973 war film Testimony.
He was also successful in the import and distribution of foreign films as...
- 8/14/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
[Our thanks to Twitch reader James Hadfield for the following review.]
Screenwriter Ivy Ho has penned some memorable films in her time, including July Rhapsody and Comrades, Almost a Love Story, but this is the first time she’s gotten behind the camera to direct one of her own scripts. Claustrophobia is an almost infuriatingly subtle piece of work, which implies much more than it actually shows.
Told in reverse, the story revolves around Pearl (Karena Lam), an attractive young woman who works in the marketing department of a struggling import-export firm. Each day, she leaves the cramped confines of her office to share a car home with her coworkers: boorish know-it-all Karl (Felix Lok), talkative tart Jewel (Chucky Woo), shy nerd John (Derek Wsang) and handsome family man Tom (Ekin Cheng).
Screenwriter Ivy Ho has penned some memorable films in her time, including July Rhapsody and Comrades, Almost a Love Story, but this is the first time she’s gotten behind the camera to direct one of her own scripts. Claustrophobia is an almost infuriatingly subtle piece of work, which implies much more than it actually shows.
Told in reverse, the story revolves around Pearl (Karena Lam), an attractive young woman who works in the marketing department of a struggling import-export firm. Each day, she leaves the cramped confines of her office to share a car home with her coworkers: boorish know-it-all Karl (Felix Lok), talkative tart Jewel (Chucky Woo), shy nerd John (Derek Wsang) and handsome family man Tom (Ekin Cheng).
- 10/29/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
HONG KONG -- Anita Mui, a Canto-pop singer and major Hong Kong film star, died here Tuesday of complications from cervical cancer. She was 40. Mui was often dubbed the "Hong Kong Madonna" because of her ever-changing image. As an actress with close to 50 features under her belt, she worked with such stars as Maggie Cheung and Michelle Yeoh in The Heroic Trio, Jackie Chan in The Legend of Drunken Master and Rumble in the Bronx and Chow Yun-fat in The Greatest Lover. Her latest role was in the critically acclaimed July Rhapsody, for which she was nominated for best actress in the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards.
- 12/31/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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