Tag Archives: Hong Kong

“People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.” — Maggie Cheung

Posted on September 20, 2025 by sheila

Maggie Cheung inspires a passionate – almost monastic – love and fascination in her devoted worldwide fanbase. Her fanbase has maintained itself for over three decades, even with her deciding not to work as much in the last 20 years. … Continue reading →

Posted in Actors, Movies, On This Day | Tagged China, Hong Kong, Maggie Cheung | Leave a comment

For International Women’s Day: Ladies I Love

Posted on March 8, 2025 by sheila

I post edited versions of this every year. I add names. I take names off if I feel like it. I enjoy compiling it. It’s not just about enjoyment. As women’s rights are up for grabs more than ever, like … Continue reading →

Posted in Actors, Art/Photography, Directors, Personal, writers | Tagged A.S. Byatt, Abigail Adams, Agnes Varda, Aline MacMahon, Amy Heckerling, Ann Savage, Anna Karina, Anne Frank, Anne V. Coates, Annie Proulx, art, Aubrey Plaza, Australia, Austria, Barbara Bel Geddes, Barbara Stanwyck, Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Bibi Andersson, Brazil, Britney Spears, Busby Berkeley, Camille Paglia, Canada, Carole Lombard, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Rampling, China, Croatia, Diane Keaton, Dolly Parton, Drew Barrymore, Dubravka Ugrešić, Edie Sedgwick, Ellen von Unwerth, England, Etta James, Eve Babitz, France, Frances Farmer, Gena Rowlands, George Eliot, Georgia, Germany, Gloria Grahame, Golshifteh Farahani, Greta Garbo, Greta Gerwig, Harriet Andersson, Hediyeh Tehrani, Hong Kong, Ida Lupino, Ingrid Thulin, Iran, Ireland, Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, Italy, Janet Malcolm, Japan, Jean Arthur, Jeanette Winterson, Jill Clayburgh, Joan Crawford, Joan Didion, Joan Jett, Joanna Hogg, Josephine Decker, Judy Garland, Julie Christie, Kate Lyn Sheil, Kay Francis, Keri Hulme, Kristen Stewart, Kristen Wiig, L.M. Montgomery, Laura Dern, Laurette Taylor, Leila Hatami, Lily Tomlin, Liv Ullmann, Louise Glück, Madeleine L'Engle, Madeline Kahn, Maggie Cheung, Maggie Smith, Marianne Moore, Marilyn Monroe, Martha Graham, Mary Oliver, Maud Gonne, Mélanie Laurent, Mia Hansen-Løve, Nancy Savoca, Natalie Portman, Nina Hoss, Nina Simone, Olivia Laing, Olympia Dukakis, Patricia Highsmith, Pauline Kael, photography, Poland, Rebecca West, Romania, Rosalind Russell, Russia, Sandrine Bonnaire, Shabnam Toloui, Shirley Jackson, Sophia Takal, South Korea, Spain, Supernatural, Sweden, Tana French, Taraneh Alidoosti, The Netherlands, Tiffany Haddish, Tina Turner, Tuesday Weld, Wanda Jackson, women directors | 106 Comments

January/February/March 2021 Viewing Diary

Posted on April 11, 2021 by sheila

Better late than never. I moved at the end of January – a big interstate move – so I’ve been a bit, how you say, busy. Not too busy to keep up my viewing schedule but too busy to put … Continue reading →

Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television | Tagged animation, Ball of Fire, Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Reynolds, Cary Grant, children's movies, Cliff Bole, comedy, coming of age, David Mamet, documentary, drama, Eminem, England, France, Gary Cooper, Hong Kong, horror, Howard Hawks, Ireland, Irene Dunne, Jack Lemmon, Jack Nicholson, Jean Renoir, Joe Berlinger, Julianne Moore, Katharine Hepburn, Kim Manners, Kristen Wiig, Laura Dern, Leo McCarey, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Maggie Cheung, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Wahlberg, Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ralph Bellamy, Russia, sci-fi, short films, Some Like It Hot, Spain, Stanley Kubrick, Sweden, Thomas J. Wright, Tom Noonan, true crime, war movies, What Happened Was, women directors, WWII, X-Files | 23 Comments

For Ebert: On Stanley Kwan’s 1991 masterpiece Center Stage

Posted on March 12, 2021 by sheila

It’s Women Writers Week over on Ebert (Table of Contents), and I wrote about the biopic with which I measure all other biopics: Stanley Kwan’s Center Stage about the brief intense life of “the Chinese Greta Garbo,” silent film star … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged biopic, China, Hong Kong, Maggie Cheung, reviews, silent films | Leave a comment

October 2017 Viewing Diary

Posted on November 2, 2017 by sheila

11:55 (2016; d. Ari Issler, Ben Snyder) A Marine returns from the war in Iraq and gets sucked back into the criminal element in his old neighborhood, even as his sister, his girlfriend, his niece, plead with him to avoid … Continue reading →

Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television | Tagged Barbara Bel Geddes, Ben Stiller, dance, David Fincher, David Lynch, documentary, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, France, Garrett Hedlund, Gloria Grahame, Greta Gerwig, Harry Dean Stanton, Hong Kong, Jake Gyllenhaal, Justin Timberlake, Kate Winslet, Mexico, Richard Linklater, Robert Altman, Robert Mitchum, Supernatural, women directors, Woody Allen | 36 Comments

November 2016 Viewing Diary

Posted on December 2, 2016 by sheila

Elle (2016; d. Paul Verhoeven) I loved it. People HATE this movie. One lady on Twitter said that men should be banned from making films about rape. How you would enforce such a rule is beyond me. Also: No fucking … Continue reading →

Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television | Tagged Agnes Varda, China, Citizen Kane, Claudette Colbert, documentary, England, France, Gary Cooper, Golshifteh Farahani, Hong Kong, Isabelle Huppert, Jim Jarmusch, Mia Hansen-Løve, Orson Welles, Patricia Neal, Paul Verhoeven, Sophia Takal, South Korea, Supernatural | 9 Comments

Review: Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (2016)

Posted on February 12, 2016 by sheila

A movie like Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong shows just how difficult it really is to pull off something like The Clock, or Dogfight, or the Before trilogy by Richard Linklater. Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong wants to be like … Continue reading →

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Red Cliff (2008); Directed by John Woo

Posted on June 9, 2010 by sheila

John Woo’s epic Red Cliff was butchered for its American release, cut down from its over-four-hour length to two hours. I have read of what was cut, and it actually makes me wince. Things like character motivation, small moments (the … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged action movies, China, Hong Kong, politics, war | 21 Comments

More on Rotterdam @ BAM

Posted on March 5, 2010 by sheila

More reviews of mine to follow over at House Next Door (my first two are already up: Sun Spots, and The Temptation of St. Tony); more reviews will go live as the films premiere over the next couple of days, … Continue reading →

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Rotterdam @ BAM: Sun Spots (d. Yang Heng)

Posted on March 5, 2010 by sheila

Originally on House Next Door: [Editor’s Note: Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is partnering with the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) to highlight the films in IFFR’s prestigious VPRO Tiger Awards competition (given to first- or second-time filmmakers). A weeklong … Continue reading →