February 1, 2024 ‘Curry and Pepper’: Theater Spoiler warning: This article contains spoilers for “Election” (2006). “Election” (2006) is probably my favorite Hong Kong gangster movie. I can never think about…
December 5, 2023 ‘Curry and Pepper’: On Ouyang Feng I don’t think I’d heard the name Ouyang Feng before I watched Wong Kar Wai’s “Ashes of Time” (東邪西毒), a 1992 movie based on…
November 9, 2023 ‘Curry and Pepper’: The Kodak Ad A self-indulgent journal of my obsession with Hong Kong cinema. One of my favorite scenes in the 1987 film “Double Fixation” (意亂情迷) takes place…
October 30, 2023 ‘Curry & Pepper’: Tangerines An enthusiastic and self-indulgent journal about my discovery of and infatuation with Hong Kong cinema. This summer I went back home to Northeast China for…