Dark City

[...] To, an entrepreneur and the co-owner of the Milky Way production company, has been pegged as a nostalgic throwback to a type of cinema that has supposedly vanished - while his versatility and idiosyncrasies, and the continued existence of the kind of filmmaking he represents, remain overlooked...

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Published in:Film comment 2007-05, Vol.43 (3), p.13-14
Main Author: Möller, Olaf
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal bites
Dogs
Entrepreneurs
Fear
Genre
History
Horror fiction
Melodrama
Middle class
Motion picture criticism
Motion picture directors & producers
Motion picture festivals
Motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Movies
olaf's world
Telephone hotlines
Thrillers
Urban renewal
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Summary:[...] To, an entrepreneur and the co-owner of the Milky Way production company, has been pegged as a nostalgic throwback to a type of cinema that has supposedly vanished - while his versatility and idiosyncrasies, and the continued existence of the kind of filmmaking he represents, remain overlooked. The not-quite ghost of Home Sweet Home is effectively a victim of poverty and urban renewal: like so many, she's displaced from her home and damned to wander through the cluttered and stratified precincts of Cheang's seemingly centerless and often frighteningly vacant Hong Kong, a city whose impoverished past stubbornly haunts its comfortable middle-class present.
ISSN:0015-119X