Geoff Gardner's Top Twelve HK Films
The trouble with my ten best Hong Kong movies is (a) I'm not even sure
some, like the King Hu films, are Hong Kong movies and (b) the list is pretty
limited....embarrassingly narrow is another way of putting it.
But here are some films, in alphabetical order, that have stuck in my
mind, some over very long periods
Ashes of Time (Wong Kar Wai)
The Butterfly Murders (Tsui Hark)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai)
Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai)
The Deaf and Mute Heroine (Wu Ma)
Fallen Angels (Wong Kar Wai)
The Fate of Lee Khan (King Hu)
Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai)
Raining in the Mountains (King Hu)
Rouge (Stanley Kwan)
A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
The Valiant Ones (King Hu)
As a thirteenth film I'd mention that any film starring Maggie
Cheung should be found a spot in a list of this kind.
2 July 2000 © Geoff Gardner
GEOFF GARDNER was once a founder of the company that evolved into Ronin Films and
was once the director of the Melbourne Film Festival (retired hurt, 1982). These days he
offers some program suggestions to the Brisbane International Film Festival.
The Senses of Cinema website has his articles
Squeezing Through
the Portal: Dragons and Tigers at Vancouver and Audition.
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