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March 22, 2006

PATRICK TAM'S NEW FILM SET FOR RELEASE

Patrick Tam was the director to beat back in the giddy, glorious days of Hong Kong's New Wave but after making classics like LOVE MASSACRE, THE SWORD, MY HEART IS THAT ETERNAL ROSE, NOMAD and FINAL VICTORY he vanished from the scene. Since 1988 he has surfaced only to edit DAYS OF BEING WILD, ASHES OF TIME and, most recently, Johnnie To's ELECTION.

But now he's got an Aaron Kwok movie, of all things, called AFTER THIS OUR EXILE with Tony Leung Kar-fai, Eric Tsang and Charlie Yeung filling out the cast. It's playing at the Hong Kong Film Festival next month, but it just got picked up by the lovely people at Focus Features who plan a Hong Kong release in August.

March 22, 2006 at 11:40 AM in News | Permalink

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You mean, Focus Films, totally unrelated to the Universal subsidiary, Focus Features.

Posted by: Al | Mar 22, 2006 2:44:43 PM

A link to this company, formed by Andy Lau and some investors.

http://www.focusfilms.cc/

Posted by: Al | Mar 22, 2006 2:48:27 PM

Correction: Only the 10 minute preview of AFTER THIS OUR EXILE -- rather than the actual film itself -- was scheduled to play at the HKIFF. And now even that won't be shown.

For more details, go to:-
http://www.hkiff.org.hk/eng/prog/show_detail.php?fi_id=364&PHPSESSID;=8763da7d41e3d885e8ba2737383a91d7

Posted by: YTSL | Mar 22, 2006 7:57:09 PM

Yep - the HKIFF just confirmed that Tam is still shooting and won't have anything ready for the festival. I'm actually looking forward to this a surprising amount.

Posted by: Grady Hendrix | Mar 23, 2006 8:17:37 AM

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