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| Hong Kong’s ‘A Simple Life’ sweeps ‘Chinese Oscars’ Posted: 28 Nov 2011 02:22 AM PST  Actress Deanie Ip (R) and actor Andy Lau display their trophies after winning the Best Leading Actress and the Best Leading Actor awards for the film 'A Simple Life' during the 48th Golden Horse Film Awards in northern Hsinchu on November 26, 2011. – AFP pic "I want to thank director Ann Hui and Andy Lau for giving me this opportunity to play so I can be so lucky in my old days," Hong Kong actress Deanie Ip, who took the Best Actress award, told the crowd at a gala ceremony in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan. Ip, 64, played a servant who wants to move into a nursing home after suffering a stroke in "A Simple Life", a role that also won her the best actress award at September's Venice film festival. Hui was crowned best director and Lau best actor for the film, based on the true story of veteran Hong Kong film producer Roger Lee. "I am very happy to win – I hope I won't have a stroke," joked Hui, who saw off popular Taiwanese director Wei Te-sheng and Chinese veteran Jiang Wen. However, as Lau collected his award he said Hong Kong's film industry was at a low point and he hoped it would pick up to emulate Taiwan. Wei, whose aboriginal war epic "Seediq Bale" led the race with 11 nominations, walked away with the best picture and two technical awards as well as best supporting actor for Bokeh Kosang. "I am really grateful to my co-workers and I am sorry to have kept you in the mountains for so long. I also want to thank all the 'angels' who financed the film," Wei said. "Seediq Bale" was based on the true story of a mountain headhunting tribe fighting against Japanese colonial forces in the 1930s, and became Taiwan's most expensive production with a cost of US$23 million. Wei said in an earlier interview that shooting the film in the mountains was challenging, while securing enough funding to keep the production rolling was a constant struggle. The best new performer prize went to 20-year-old Ko Chen-tung for playing writer Giddens Ko in the teen romance "You are the Apple of My Eye," which has topped box offices in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Mainland Chinese films notably missed out in the major categories this year, although acclaimed director Jiang Wen's black comedy "Let the Bullets Fly" took best adapted screenplay and best cinematography. Nearly 30 films from Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong were nominated in the 48th edition of the Golden Horse Awards, styled after the US Academy Awards but decided by a jury along the lines of the Cannes film festival. – AFP Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| ‘Women in Love’ director Ken Russell dies: BBC Posted: 28 Nov 2011 02:13 AM PST LONDON, Nov 28 – Ken Russell, the British director of "Women in Love" and "The Devils", has died at the age of 84, the BBC said today. Media reports said he died in his sleep yesterday night. Russell began his career with the BBC and went on to direct some of the most controversial and violent films of the 1960s and 70s. Women in Love, a 1969 adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel, became infamous for its nude wrestling scene between actors Alan Bates and Oliver Reed. Russell was criticised for the level of violence in the 1971 religious drama "The Devils". – Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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