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Tom Cunliffe @reelingdays.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Link to the crowdfunding campaign to help release Cinema Strada, a cinematic memoir of legendary HK film critic and programmer Law Kar: labs.giloo.ist/projects/cin...

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Cinema Strada Documentary: General Release Crowdfunding Project｜Giloo documentary & film

Cinema Strada Documentary: General Release Crowdfunding Project

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Patrick Macias @patrickmacias.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

A TokyoScope News #Christmas Miracle! Inside the making of a Japanese dinosaur epic with Hollywood ambitions, a huge budget, and a release derailed by drug scandal. How REX: A Dinosaur’s Story is now finding new life as an unlikely cult favorite. Full story: www.tokyoscope.blog/p/japans-rex...

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Patrick Macias @patrickmacias.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion opens in #Japan in 1972. Today, this Meiko Kaji film is considered a cult classic, but back then it was pulling in mainstream audiences.

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Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

For Drunk for Life, I've translated an interview that Cahiers du Cinema recently conducted with Kiyoshi Kurosawa focusing on Chime and Cloud. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

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Translation: Kiyoshi Kurosawa in Cahiers

On Cloud and Chime

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

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Tom Cunliffe @reelingdays.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The time has finally come for one of the greatest films ever to be released on 4K! A truly wild and exhilarating mix of tones, genres and blistering action sequences. Still rmb hunting for this at Kims Video on a trip to New York as it was impossible to find in the UK in the early 2000s.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

My latest in the Guardian where I argue that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social position on Palestine was not a liability, but that the Palestine movement and its organizers are why he won. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Zohran Mamdani has the Palestinian protest movement to thank for his win | Heba Gowayed

The Democratic socialist’s victory in the New York City primary elections shows support for Palestine is not a liability

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Tom Cunliffe @reelingdays.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

One of Chor Yuen's pre-Gu Long wuxia action movies with English subs. In his book Planet Hong Kong, David Bordwell analysed a sequence from this film to showcase how some of John Woo's action style was anticipated by the "floating fights of Chor Yuen" www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJDp...

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The Killer (1971) | 大殺手 | Full Movie | Shaw Brothers Cinema

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Tom Cunliffe @reelingdays.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

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The Killer (1971) | 大殺手 | Full Movie | Shaw Brothers Cinema

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<--> @sinisterdexter.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

“Once the level of valuable information reported [by CCTV] was ‘reset to zero,’ naturally no one was willing to pay anymore to appear alongside official propaganda. Meanwhile, the financial support provided by the government was insufficient to maintain the operation of such a massive team.”

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Television in Crisis - China Media Project

As programs in China become propaganda mouthpieces and meaningful content disappears, stations face financial collapse while viewers abandon traditional media entirely. Everyone inside knows the way o...

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

"Papa" will be screening from February 28th in a good number of cinemas in the UK and Ireland! It's not an easy watch but it's a really good film. Don't just take my word for it; it's been nominated for 11 Hong Kong Film Awards and is @poohsticks.bsky.social's favourite Hong Kong film of 2024!

Advertising for "Papa" (Hong Kong, 2024) listing the cinemas in the UK and Ireland it will be screening in -- and not just in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Dublin but also the likes of Ashton-Under-Lyne, Camberley, Gateshead, Reading, Sittingbourne, Stockpot and Walsall!

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Third Window Films @thirdwindowfilms.com · 21/02/2025

Explore the Directors Company A #thirdwindowfilms passion project in spending years clearing the rights and bringing these lost pieces of brilliant, Japanese cinema back to life and out to you! Hope you’re enjoying them! buff.ly/4emJvas

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Dylan Cheung @dylancheung.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

You can now download the program for TFAI's Through Her Vision: New Cinema Re-Imagined series from last year about the role of women in the Taiwan New Cinema. It's bilingual and has interviews with the likes of Sylvia Chang, Yang Chia-yun, and Wang Shaudi. reurl.cc/EgMLVA

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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 10/02/2025

As part of #SaveThePCC, we are looking to cement our status as a culturally significant institution. We need examples as to why you love what we do & want to hear your most cherished memories of the cinema. So tell us: #ILovePCC because… Tell us here: princecharlescinema.typeform.com/ILovePCC

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Hayley Scanlon @hayleylscanlon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Looks like Tsui Hark's Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants is coming to UK cinemas from Friday www.odeon.co.uk/films/legend...

Poster for Tsui Hark's Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants featuring the main characters against a fiery background.

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Paul Martinovic @paulmartinovic.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Staggering yet unsurprising greed from the poisonous, evil cunts at Criterion Capital. It’s not enough to own 95% of Leicester Square and do nothing of value with it, they have to take the one part that everyone likes and turn that into one more soulless cash funnel for billionaire owner Asif Aziz

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OnePerfectHEADshot @headexposure.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

To honour the late, great Sonny Chiba's birthday, an edit of X-Ray punches through the ages: The Streetfighter (1974) Bruce Strikes Back (1982) Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991) Romeo Must Die (2000) Tom-Yum-Goong (2005) Ashoka (2008) Wu Xia (2011) My Beloved Bodyguard (2016) To The Rescue (2024)

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This is a beautiful tribute.

kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.
What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.
Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met.
David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.
While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own.
I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.
His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.
I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone.
David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.

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Tom Cunliffe @reelingdays.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Loved playing Virtua Tennis in the game arcades in Hong Kong in 2017, but could not find a single Virtua Tennis game machine in any game arcade in Hong Kong in 2023...now re-watching PTU and seeing Virtua Tennis in the game arcade sequences is so nostalgic...

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Jonah Jeng @jonahjeng.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Excited to share my Best Action Scenes of 2024 roundup for MUBI Notebook. What a year. The following is a thread of GIFs from the scenes I discuss: mubi.com/en/notebook/...

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The Best Action Scenes of 2024

A survey ranging from dystopian melees to period set pieces, Qin Pengfei to Bren Foster, France to Japan.

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Siu Heng @siuheng.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

My latest journal article in IMAGES's special issue on "Censorship in Film and Audio-Visual Media". I tried to draw on my own experience as an ex-officer in Hong Kong's Film Censorship Authority, my knowledge in film industry, and my academic studies. pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/...

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Hong Kong protest drama "May You Stay Forever Young" has been uploaded to Youtube and is available to view for free -- and, for now, without a VPN in Hong Kong. Trigger warning for those who were in Hong Kong in 2019. But also here's passing on the message that: "Even if in vain, we will sustain."

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任俠、林森執導｜自殺少年搜救隊｜少年 (May You Stay Forever Young)｜孫君陶｜余子穎｜粵語中英文字幕｜2022｜香港禁片

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OnePerfectHEADshot @headexposure.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Behold! The 2024 Action Movies video recap! An overview of the most interesting 2024 actioners: Twilight of the Warriors, 100 Yards, Life After Fighting, Baby Assassins 3, Kill, Blade of Fury, Shadow Strays, and dozens more. This time with guests! youtu.be/59XTLbybGMg

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The Action Year in Review - 2024

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Pete Volk @petevolk.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

2024 was a great year for action movies. Here is my final list of the best of the year, split into must-watches and the best of the rest, and where to watch them. It's listed in alphabetical order, but also that fortuitously means my favorite of the year is first. www.polygon.com/24091121/bes...

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The best action movies of the year

And where to watch them

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Siu Heng @siuheng.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Diaspora within and beyond the cinema has never been so relevant to Hong Kong as an imagined community, and I feel an urge to discuss this. Thanks Transtext(e)s editors @jennywcreative.bsky.social and @gblee.bsky.social for publishing this paper by me and Wong Ching. Links: beacons.ai/siuheng

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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 07/12/2024

Dayo Wong’s The Last Dance is now the highest-grossing Chinese-language film of all time in Hong Kong, with a total of HK$122 million as of Saturday morning. Including English language films, it is 7th all-time, behind Titanic, the 2 Avatars, and the 3 Avengers films www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

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The Last Dance takes first place with record HK$122 million at Hong Kong cinemas

Drama set around funeral trade is highest-grossing Chinese-language film ever in Hong Kong.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The author Qiong Yao 瓊瑤 with Brigitte Lin 林青霞, the most frequent and best embodiment of her many romantic protagonists-

B/w photo of Qiong Yao and a young Brigitte Lin

B/w photo of Brigitte Lin as a teen in her debut role

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OnePerfectHEADshot @headexposure.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Tony Jaa has a new film hitting North American cinemas this week, courtesy of @wellgousa.bsky.social! Will more Chinese-produced actioners reach international cinemas in the future? A release worth supporting if you're an action fan and the film is playing near you. filmexposure.ch/2024/12/02/s...

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STRIKING RESCUE – Will Tony Jaa bring about the Chinese DTV paradigm shift?

If you want to see the Muay Thai warrior breaking bodies with his signature moves, you’ll get your money’s worth.

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Dylan Cheung @dylancheung.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Tsui Hark casually dropping that he's making a Hong Kong movie with the Hui Brothers.

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Blake Simons @blakethinks.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Ahead of its International Premiere at LIFFF this Sunday, I sat down with Gakuryu Ishii to discuss his SELF-REVOLUTIONARY CINEMATIC STRUGGLE, a cinema-exclusive experience unlike anything you've ever seen desperatelyseekingsubtitles.substack.com/p/gakuryu-is...

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RazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

＜長毛致寶瑩家書＞ A letter from imprisoned socialist activist "Long Hair" Leung kwok-hung to wife, Chan Po-ying. Translation by RazvenHK.

(Po-)Ying:
瑩：

　　……過去三年，得您之探訪照顧，並為我的事情奔波，實在萬分感激。我希望您明白，我十分希望能同您在自由的天地相聚、相愛，一齊遊歷彼此嚮往的地方，我常跟您說的「我愛你」，若不是隔着鐵窗，那該多好！
…The past 3 years, having you visit and being busy tending to my affairs, I am extremely grateful. I hope you know that I wish to be reunited you, to love each other and visit the places we enjoy under a free sky, with me telling you that "I love you" constantly, wouldn't that be great!

我希望您知道，我現在的厄運，是由於政治逼害的牢獄，我對於因此而未必能與您再次一如以往，無拘無束相愛，實在遺憾。然而，我對以往的言行及因而繫獄並無悔疚，從我在70年代開始參與政治運動及社會抗爭，是一種出於改變社會不公義不合理的願望，爭取民主，實現社會主義，並沒有錯。
I hope you understand my bad luck now is from being imprisoned due to political persecution, and because of these constraints, we are unable to be in love as we were before, I am regretful. But I have neither regret nor remorse for what I have said and done that have ended me up in prison. From the 70's, when i began particpating in political movements and social struggles, I did it out of a wish to change the unjust and unfair things in society, to pursue democracy, to achieve socialism, I did no wrong.

　　匆匆寫來，不能盡訴此刻心情，但願您保重，也希望一齊奮鬥（的）諸君能夠平安，繼續奮鬥。
I could not write down all my emotions but I hope you take care, and hope everyone be well, so that we can continue to fight on in the future.

雄（長毛）
- Long Hair

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Dominic Lash @domlash.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

watched "10 Rillington Place" and "The Conversation" over the past couple of days and was struck by the way their colour schemes and mise-en-scene resonate with Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Cure" (I know KK is a big fan of Fleischer's "The Boston Strangler" so the influence may be at least partly direct)

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Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Powerful statement from journalist turned activist Gwyneth Ho on her FB, published after she was sentenced to 7 years in prison by a Hong Kong court today: "we rose above fear and emerged as a genuine civil society."

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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I posted "A dark day for Hong Kong" on Facebook (the only social media my mother and many friends over 60 use). Actually, I should have posted "ANOTHER dark day for Hong Kong". We've had so many since June 12th, 2019. 7/21. 8/31. 10/1. 11/11. And so on and on. June 30/July 1, 2020. Etc.

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Jeppe Mulich @jmulich.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

From roughly 2003-2020 HK had a thriving civil society, despite the system being stacked against it. People were engaged in all sorts of organizing and action. Today's sentencing and the broader sweep of repression isn't just about ending opposition. It's about strangling that civil society.

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

delighted to speak with Fu Ting from the Associated Press about one of my favorite topics -- bookstores! Unfortunately, the fate of many bookstores in China isn't so rosy... apnews.com/article/chin...

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As China cracks down on bookstores at home, Chinese-language booksellers are flourishing overseas

Independent bookstores have become a new battleground in China. They're getting swept up in the ruling Communist Party’s crackdown on dissent and free expression.

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Tom Cunliffe @reelingdays.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The new Hong Kong movie The Last Dance is currently the No.2 highest grossing film at UK box offices, with Gladiator II at No.1. A remarkable achievement when Gladiator II is screening at 712 cinemas while The Last Dance is screening at only 59 cinemas. More cinemas should take a chance on it

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Tom Cunliffe @reelingdays.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The new Hong Kong movie The Last Dance ( 破. 地獄) is selling out cinemas across the UK and even Mark Kermode has now reviewed it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CSQ...

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Mark Kermode reviews The Last Dance - Kermode and Mayo's Take

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