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Monday, 01 February 2010 07:02 Written by Xinlei Wang Directed by Guy Ritchie, the movie has borrowed the world-famous characters of Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) and Dr. John Watson (Jude Law) from the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. The story starts from Holmes and Watson racing to prevent a human sacrifice ritual conducted by Lard Blackwood (Mark Strong). Although they stop the ritual just in time and arrest Blackwood, who is later executed by hanging, the conspiracy is far from over. Lord Blackwood is seemingly resurrected from his tomb a few days later, more deaths occur, and the whole of London faces a dangerous change to its very nature. Can Sherlock manage to uncover the truth behind this ‘black magic’ and save the world? The film is scheduled to be shown in the UME Xintiandi on Feb 25. Those familiar with the original story series will be especially engaged by the movie because, although it takes a number of liberties with the original Holmes stories, it also contains numerous references and allusions to them. It quotes the Conan Doyle novels and stories on several occasions, and also retains – while ‘enhancing’ -- the original portraits of Holmes and Watson, as well as exploring their complicated relationship as friends and partners, with Watson often taking the part of a somewhat reluctant student. Add comment (0)
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Monday, 09 November 2009 07:11 Written by JFK Miller Director Bruce Beresford talks to us about Mao’s Last Dancer, now a major film of the best-selling memoir about a poor peasant boy who was selected to study ballet in Beijing and serve in Chairman Mao’s revolution... What attracted you to the story in the first place? When did you decide to turn the memoir into a film? 
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009 11:10 Written by JFK Miller China's 60th anniversary star-laden movie is out now on DVD Even before its release The Founding of a Republic (Jiàngúo dàyè) was widely derided and dismissed by some Western news sources as a propaganda piece – a sanitized version of the Chinese civil war that led to the founding of the republic in 1949 and 60 years of continuous rule by China's Communist Party. The best description I read l was that it was the CCP's "[birthday] present to itself." That may be. But films based on historical events are, always, points of view. It just so happens that this film represents the point of view of a political party – in this case, the world's largest – so they call it propaganda. 
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Tuesday, 01 September 2009 07:09 Written by Berwin Song The People’s Republic of Desire hits Shanghai Local film production company Bright Shadow Films is preparing to start filming on their debut feature-length film, The People’s Republic of Desire, an adaptation of Annie Wang’s 2006 novel. The shoot is scheduled for the middle of next month. 
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Sunday, 20 September 2009 03:09 Written by JFK Miller Mother always said if can't say something nice don't say anything at all. Fortunately that wasn't my mother so I'll just let rip... This is Zhang Ziyi's first romcom but the term is misapplied because it's about as romantic as Kramer vs. Kramer and about as funny as Schindler's List. The plot: Zhang plays Sophie who's trying to win back her surgeon boyfriend, Jeff, who has skanked off with Fan Bingbing's character Anna, a famous movie star. Sophie wants to get Jeff back before their wedding day in two months. Not sure why she just didn't cut his genitals off. Must be love. I won't recount the rest of the plot because it would be too traumatic and you can read it here anyway - no spoilers (you won't need them, the storyline is as predictable as a sunrise). Zhang does that gamine thing that Audrey Hepburn used to do so well and Anne Hathaway/Calista Flockhart/Audrey Tautou do sort of well if you didn't know any better. She is impossible not to like which means I really can't slam this film entirely. Quite irritating really. So, five stars for Zhang. Zero stars for the film. |
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