lisab
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Post by lisab on Sept 10, 2005 10:27:44 GMT -5
Today is the day Perhaps Love is being shown in Venice. Hopefully more details and pics forthcoming!
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SamIAm
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Post by SamIAm on Sept 10, 2005 13:52:57 GMT -5
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SamIAm
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Post by SamIAm on Sept 10, 2005 14:01:03 GMT -5
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Post by Camille on Sept 10, 2005 20:38:16 GMT -5
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Post by tk_angel on Sept 14, 2005 3:32:45 GMT -5
"Perhaps Love" Launches Soundtrack news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/13/content_3483756.htm13 September 2005 BEIJING, Sept. 13 -- The Chinese movie "Perhaps Love", directed by veteran Hong Kong film maker Peter Ho-Sun Chan, and choreographed by the Vanity Fair choreographer Farah Khan, is scheduled for release at Christmas. But the movie's soundtrack will be available much sooner. The ten-million US dollar movie stars Chinese mainland actress Zhou Xun, Taiwan-based idol Takeshi Kaneshiro, Veteran Hong Kong performer Jacky Cheung and South Korean star Ji Jin-hee. The director escorted the cast as they signed a publishing contract of the movie's original soundtrack with EMI. The event was accompanied by the music video of the movie's theme song "Crossroads", sung by Kaneshiro and Zhou Xun. It's the first time Kaneshiro has sang in ten years. "Perhaps Love" has already been branded as China's "Chicago" and a copy of Bollywood. But the director has his own opinion. Director of "Perhaps Love" Peter Hosun Chan said, 'Perhaps Love' should actually not be categorized as a musical. I just wanted to push the love affairs to a more extreme point and I found singing and dancing is a necessary way. So I would rather call it a variation of a love story." The movie tells the story of a young star's experience as she grows up and the two men in love with her. The South Korean actor Ji Jin-hee, starring the role of Monty, also contributes his Chinese singing to the movie's soundtrack. |
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Post by Mercedes on Sept 15, 2005 14:42:41 GMT -5
aussiefan,Thanks for the article on Perhaps Love soundtrack.
I have been searching the Web and haven't been able to find very many details about how the movie was received or a review of it. Maybe they are still trying to keep it quiet until its general release. Is it scheduled to appear at any more film festivals?
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Post by tk_angel on Sept 15, 2005 17:48:18 GMT -5
No worries Mercedes... I'm just like you desperate for Takeshi news (particularly "perhaps love" news).... My friend advised me to Google Takeshi.. LOL.... if u go to this link www.google.com/alerts - put takeshi kaneshiro in "Search Terms", and put your email address --- it will email u news on Takeshi as it happens.... Also, if you want to check out some of his latest pics... u can visit www.gettyimages.com, go to "Editorial" and choose "entertainment" and search for "takeshi kaneshiro"... the pictures are a lot bigger/clearer than the pics on wireimage.com |
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Post by tk_angel on Sept 15, 2005 22:11:20 GMT -5
More news www.screendaily.com/story.asp?storyid=23380Perhaps Love (Ruguo Ai) Lee Marshall in Venice 15 September 2005 Dir: Peter Ho-sun Chan. HK-Ch-Malay. 2005. 108mins. The seeming Chinese answer to Moulin Rouge, Perhaps Love is a lavish but insubstantial musical love story with pan-Asian cinema and music stars Zhou Xun (Suzhou River, The Little Chinese Seamstress) and Takeshi Kaneshiro (Chungking Express, House Of Flying Daggers) in the Nicole and Ewan roles. It’s an odd mix: arthouse in its three-strand film-within-a-film plot and open ending, much more traditional in its choreography (by Bollywood supremo Farah Khan) and music, which eschews oriental models for the full-on Andrew Lloyd-Webber experience. It is neither as innovative nor as outrageous as Luhrmann’s neo-musical: then again, high camp never plays well with Chinese audiences and would also likely run into problems with authorities. Perhaps Love should perform strongly in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and the burgeoning mainland Chinese market – one of its key targets - while the presence of Kaneshiro will stir interest in Japan. But outside of these territories, the obvious stumbling block of Chinese-language songs – whose lyrics were only poorly rendered in the subtitles of the version that previewed at Venice – will confine the film’s audience to specialist and niche slots. A noirish opening sequence, narrated by a melancholy observer called Montage (Korean star Ji Jin-Hee) plunges us straight into the musical-within-a-musical that gives the temporally fragmented plot a veneer of present-day cohesion. Hot new heartthrob Lin Jiang Dong (Kaneshiro) and established diva Sun Na (Zhou Xun) have been paired in a new musical with a 1930s Shanghai circus setting, directed by legendary film-maker Nie Wen (Jacky Cheung). Lin and Sun knew each other 10 years before, in Beijing, when he was a hard-up film student and she was a bar singer with a waif-like insouciance that seems modelled on the Giulietta Masina of Fellini’s La Strada. But their platonic love affair is spiked when the ambitious Sun leaves Lin for director Nie, who she knows can make her famous. The present-day action switches back and forth with some elegance between the musical – in which the love triangle is reproduced, with Nie Wen playing a circusmaster, Sun his trapeze artist lover, and Lin the man from her past – and the behind-the-scenes drama, in which a still infatuated Lin tries to remind Sun of their affair, and her bar-singer past, which she has cancelled from her official biography and mental hard disk. The third timeline – a flashback to that earlier affair – kicks in when Lin persuades Sun to travel to Beijing with him to refresh her memory (these scenes, set mostly in a disused warehouse, are shot by Chris Doyle, while the rest of the lush cinematography is the work of Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger cinematographee Peter Pau). The song-and-dance numbers are a grab-bag of references and borrowings, from Busby Berkeley to the Umbrellas Of Cherbourg to Cultural Revolution chic (distilled in the donkey jacket and comrade cap worn by Lin in his embedded musical role); while the final trapeze sequence takes us back to 1950s circus movies like The Greatest Show On Earth. But though there is undoubted chemistry in the Zhou Xun-Kaneshiro pairing, Perhaps Love suffers from problems with its plotting and the post-modern nature of its receding mirrors structure. In coming on all Wong Kar-wai, it pulls the Rodgers and Hammerstein punch of the true, no-holds-barred romantic musical. |
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glaucia
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Post by glaucia on Sept 15, 2005 23:27:16 GMT -5
Well,
I don't like reviews. I like to watch a movie and have my opinion about It. So, I'll wait for PERHAPS LOVE.
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SamIAm
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Post by SamIAm on Sept 16, 2005 12:54:47 GMT -5
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glaucia
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Post by glaucia on Sept 16, 2005 22:56:07 GMT -5
Thanks a lot!
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Post by SamIAm on Sept 19, 2005 11:33:15 GMT -5
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Post by SamIAm on Sept 19, 2005 16:15:30 GMT -5
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Post by SamIAm on Sept 19, 2005 16:16:23 GMT -5
I meant "free".
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Post by Samanosuke on Oct 3, 2005 0:46:11 GMT -5
Perhaps Love Trailer www.megaupload.com/?d=Q1D0M1M5Hope this still works. It's the trailer to the Perhaps Love movie. Just go to the site and wait for about 45 seconds. After the time is up then you can download the trailer. I don't know if it's been posted here already or not, but I just wanted to post it just in case anyone haven't seen the trailer yet. |
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