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As Tears Go By (1988) © Courtesy of Janus Films Wong’s debut feature is his most generic, an 80s Hong Kong crime film cut from the template established by directors such as Ringo Lam and John Woo. But his signature touches shine through in the doomed love story between Ah Ngor (Maggie Cheung) and Wah (Andy Lau), particularly in a moment involving the film’s biggest needle drop. That would be Sandy Lam’s Cantopop cover of Giorgio Moroder and Berlin’s original song for Top ...

JOHN DOYLES GAMBLE WITH MILLIONS: HEADS HE WINGS-TAILS YOU LOSE FUGIUVE YOU Walter Stewart BEFORE I MET John Christopher Doyle, the controversial mining promoter and close friend of Newfoundland Premier Joseph Smallwood, I thought of financial wizards as rather dull types, surrounded by computers and walnut-paneled boardrooms and lynx-eyed assistants and fussy accountants; stodgy people, really, for all their wealth, who lived in a world of ticker tape and dividends and stock warrants and other...

Some business owners can get hurt by workarounds to the $10,000 limit for state and local tax deductions.

Prepare for sensory overload: tomorrow the BFI delivers an online retrospective of the films of Wong Kar-Wai, who has supervised new 4K versions of five of the films on offer (bfi.org.uk). Born in

In the mood for loneliness and longing: How Wong Kar Wai depicts emotion Cinema’s poet of solitude, heartbreak and desire, Wong Kar Wai makes films that enchant the senses. As a new season of his work launches online, Ann Lee explores a cinematic world of intense feeling. 2 February 2021 In the Mood for Love (2000) Watching a Wong Kar Wai film means entering a world of heightened emotions. It’s not just that they tell unforgettable stories of ill-fated romance, but it’s the maste...

‘We’re certainly busy’: behind the boom in overseas film and TV production We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement While Idris Elba arrived quietly and Jane Seymour stayed in a standard hotel, Matt Damon is going through his Australian quarantine before shooting the new Thor instalment and possibly a second movie in style. The Oscar-winning star of the Bourne series and his family are sharing a...

January 21st, 2021 By David Knox 1 commentFiled under: News, SBS will launch digital platform SBS中文 (SBS Chinese) for Mandarin and Cantonese-speaking Australians, as Lunar New Year begins next month. SBS中文 will be a mobile-first digital offering, providing Chinese-Australians with independent, trusted Australian news, information, and entertainment, with news from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and around the world. Content will be published in Traditional and Simplified Chinese te...

Author of the article: Fish Griwkowsky Publishing date: Jan 15, 2021  •  January 15, 2021  •  2 minute read  •  Marys Wedding: A Métis Love STory is streaming at Citadel Theatre. Photo by supplied Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content Mary’s Wedding: A Métis Love Story: Theatres remain sensibly gov...

From killer gunmen to a fake cancer bride: 600 people locked up in Merseyside in 2020 Murderers, evil rapists, gangland thugs and bent cops were all jailed last year Updated L-R Clement Martin, Toni Standen and Lee Abbott Get the inside track on the big stories from Liverpool Crown Court with our weekly newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe now When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll i...

From a prison guards intercourse hole to a paedo ice cream man: The oddest court cases in Merseyside in 2020 Judges dealt with a beautician on crack, an uncle dating his own niece and a Yankee candle assault L-R Jenna Walker, Paul Neary and Jordan Hughes Get the inside track on the big stories from Liverpool Crown Court with our weekly newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe now When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these n...