ReImagine Leslie Cheung--Live Show

ReImagine Leslie Cheung was not only a double album release, it was also a one-night concert in Hong Kong. March 1, 2012, Cantopop artists who had contributed to the album, and some who had not, performed a selection of works featured on the album before a live audience. This concert was filmed, paired with the studio recording, and distributed as a boxed set comprising 2 CDs a...Read more

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Re-Imagining Leslie Cheung?

OnMarch 1, 2012, a tribute concert to the late Leslie Cheung was held in Hong Kong under the title “Reimagine Leslie Cheung”. It was directed by Lam Jik (Lin Xi), who was one of Leslie’s favorite lyricists from the mid-1990s until his death, and Alvin Leong, who produced much of Leslie’s music from the late 1980s until his death in 2003. Universal Music, which released Leslie’s music from this...Read more

Anthony Wong 2011 Album Review: Beyond Words

Anthony Wong Yiu Ming's first album in three years is titled 拂一身還滿 (inadequately rendered into English as "Also Brush a Full" by translate.google.com). Aimed squarely at the Mandarin market (primarily the Mainland), it f...Read more

For Love of Leslie: Fan Art (5)

This final blog on fan videos has a little bit of everything. There is a radio interview with Leslie provided with appropriate illustrations by a fan. An Anthony Wong Yiu Ming song is turned into a fan tribute to Leslie by way of Saint-Exupery. A Japanese fan created cartoons depicting many of Leslie's greatest roles and stage performances, featuring a fan in a very special role. And finally, to end this series on fan videos, a beautiful tribute video in which a fan not only edited the video, but also recorded the song fo...Read more

For Love of Leslie: Fan Art (4)

Fans of Leslie Cheung's movies fall into two basic categories:  those who are fans of Leslie as a singer and an actor, and those who are fans of Leslie solely as an actor. In fact, many in the West have no idea that Leslie was as big a singing star as he was an actor. I think it can be argued that Leslie Cheung was one of the greatest and most popular Cantopop performers who ever lived. While he also turned in many great performances as an actor, he did not redefine the history of Hong Kong cinema in quite the same way he...Read more

For Love of Leslie: Fan Art (3)

Just as religions have holy days and nations have national holidays that punctuate the year and give shape, color and a communal identity to the faithful or citizenry, so too fans of Leslie Cheung have two major dates that are the focus of the fan year. The first is April first. It was on April 1, 2003 that Leslie Cheung took his own life. For many fans, it is one of the saddest days of their lives, the day their beloved Gor Gor left this earth. Suddenly the words of Don MacLean's "American Pie," the song that L...Read more

For Love of Leslie: Fan Art (2)

In addition to songs on the first album, fans over the years have created music videos for songs on other albums that did not originally have professionally produced music videos. Perhaps no album has generated more fan videos than Leslie's final studio album, which was released posthumously. The songs on this album are quite evocative and represent some of the best music that Leslie composed, as well as featuring fine songs by other composers. The lyrics speak to fans and are written in such a way that many of the songs ...Read more

For Love of Leslie: Fan Art (1)

Fans of Leslie Cheung have found many ways to commemorate and express their love and devotion for the star. But, especially with the rise of YouTube and similar populist video sharing sites, one of the primary media employed as been the short-form video. There are hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of fan-produced videos that have been shared on public websites, forums, fan pages and other similar places on the world wide web. These videos are shared again and again on social networking sites like Facebook and other equivalent...Read more

My Johnnie To article now available in PDF

http://www.hkcinemagic.com/fr/pdf/The-Rise-of-Johnnie-To-Marie-Jost-HKCinemagic-PDF-version.pdfNow available in an attractive, easy-to-read and downloadable PDF format.