Arts & Music
The institution moves beyond colonial-era acquisitions to focus on contemporary works that will become the classics of the future.
Mabel Cheung’s widowed mother made plastic flowers, and friends helped pay for her to go university. While studying in New York, the director hung out with triad gangsters and put them in a film that earned her a Shaw Brothers contract.
Martha Sawyers eschewed pre-war tropes of other Western artists depicting Chinese people as weak and backward.
HBO’s dark science-fiction show brings Aaron Paul and Vincent Cassel into the mix. Plus The Chef Show returns to Netflix, with Roy Choi and Jon Favreau ready to cook.
Constanze Ruhm’s version of ‘Anna’ gives a voice to the protagonist of the original documentary, and all women marginalised by the film industry.
The wuxia saga looks like Cirque du Soleil meets Journey to the West, with airborne, superhuman displays of martial arts.
Teboho Edkins’ Days of Cannibalism looks like a Western, but these frontier spaces are settled by Chinese ‘pioneers’.
South Korean caper infuses action, espionage and AI into its romantic core, and is the better for it.
Months of protests followed by the coronavirus outbreak have dealt a blow to Hong Kong galleries, already weighed down by crippling rents, but most owners believe galleries will survive.
The six-part series unites bloody drama with documentary interludes to illuminating effect.
René Viénet’s debut Can Dialetics Break Bricks? takes kung fu potboiler Crush and positions it as a confrontation between the state and revolutionaries .
Founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art in the Thai capital, Boonchai Bencharongkul, hands the reins to his son, Kit, who plans to modernise, edit and expand the collection beyond Buddhist art.
The show follows Pan Li Lan, a young woman chosen to wed Lim Tian Ching, the only catch is that he is dead.
Mainland directors are frequently bombarded with questions abroad about China’s social and political conditions. Now their Hong Kong counterparts must prepare for similar interrogations.
Ridley Scott’s 1982 film remains a source of inspiration for Swedish watch and footwear designer Alexis Holm.
Adapted from the novels of Mado Nozaki, the show delves into deep territory, including questioning what constitutes good and evil.
The six-part series follows overworked, underfunded but somehow still positive experts trying to keep us safe.
Films about sporting events and sports stars have frequently been used to stir national pride but certain filmmakers have pretty much ignored the brief to present a true picture.
Sellers’ comic genius, an unforgettable theme tune and opening credits so charming their animated protagonist was awarded its own series transformed this David Niven vehicle into an enduring classic.