Return to Planet Hong Kong: A Talk with Film Scholar David Bordwell

“Today's Hong Kong learned all the wrong lessons from Hollywood, and today's Hollywood learned all the wrong lessons from Hong Kong.”
--David Bordwell

Ten years after his landmark study Planet Hong Kong first tracked the globalization of Hong Kong cinema, author David Bordwell, the man Roger Ebert calls “the most valuable and readable film scholar in America,” returns with a fully revised second edition, available exclusively on his website. In conversation with Ken Smith, Asian arts critic of the Financial Times, Bordwell discusses the rise of Hong Kong film, his personal experiences with Asian filmmakers, and new currents in the industry since the territory’s return to China.

Planet Hong Kong, second edition, is only available as an e-book. Please click here to purchase or find out more information.  

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David Bordwell is the Jacques Ledoux Professor of Film Studies, Emeritus in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Madison-Wisconsin. A prolific scholar, he began a writing about Asian films with his first book, Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema, and has devoted much attention to national cinemas, particularly Hong Kong and Taiwan. His book Film Art and Film History, co-written with his wife Kristin Thompson, is the most widely used introductory film textbook in the United States.

Ken Smith divides his time between New York and Hong Kong, where he is the Asian arts critic for the Financial Times and a regular commentator for RTHK Radio 4, where he has reviewed the Hong Kong International Film Festival for the past six years.

Admission: $12/adult; $8/student and senior, free for MOCA member. RSVP to education@mocanyc.org or 212-619-4785.

Co-sponsored by Subway Cinema.