HONG KONG -- The second Hong Kong Asian Film Financing Forum has announced 28 projects, including some from a number of established directors from around the Asian region, as part of the Entertainment Expo to take place March 22-April 6. Among the directors who will be presenting projects at HAF, which will be held concurrently with the FILMART programming trade show (March 22-26), are Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang (Last Life in the Universe), Hong Kong's Ann Hui (Summer Snow) and Lo Chi-leung (Inner Senses), and Mainland Chinese directors Lu Chuan, who recently won Taiwan's Golden Horse Award for Kekexili: Mountain Patrol, and Jiang Wen (Devil at My Doorstep).
- 1/21/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Leslie Cheung, the acclaimed Cantonese actor best known for his work in Farewell My Concubine and Happy Together, committed suicide in Hong Kong by jumping from the Mandarin Oriental hotel; he was 46. Hong Kong police issued a terse statement on Tuesday, saying only that "The man was certified dead at hospital. His name is Cheung 'X' Wing and was aged 46. He left a suicide letter." An anonymous police source confirmed that it was indeed the actor, and the news was picked up by local television and radio, with a statement ultimately posted on Cheung's web site, www.lesliecheung.com. Born in Hong Kong, Cheung attended college in England before returning to his home country in 1976, where he entered an Asian music contest and won second place. A singing career and roles in teen films followed, but his career hit high speed with John Woo's A Better Tomorrow (1986), co-starring Chow Yun-Fat. Cheung's most acclaimed performance came in 1993's Farewell My Concubine, in which he starred as an opera singer involved in a love triangle set against the backdrop of 20th-century Chinese history; the film, directed by Chen Kaige, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and received two Oscar nominations, including Best Foreign Language Film. Cheung also starred in Wong Kar-Wai's award-winning Happy Together (1997) opposite Tony Leung and Days of Being Wild for which he won Best Actor at the HK Film Festival, and had garnered acclaim for 2002's Inner Senses. The contents of Cheung's suicide letter have not been revealed. --Prepared by IMDb staff...
- 4/1/2003
- WENN
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