HBO's Olivier Assayas-helmed TV series Irma Vep might be a love letter to the chaos of moviemaking, but it also brought a moment of peace in his relationship with ex-wife Maggie Cheung. In an ...
Irma Vep (1996) is a French movie helmed by Olivier Assayas. It stars Maggie Cheung as a fictionalized version of herself, a Hong Kong actress cast in the remake of a silent film serial. As she dives ...
On my flight back to Boston from Hong Kong, I watched “Comrades: Almost a Love Story” (1996), a Hong Kong film directed by Peter Chan and starring Leon Lai and Maggie Cheung — the perfect ending to my ...
Last month, the Criterion Collection released the long-awaited World of Wong Kar Wai box set, which features most of the films made by the influential Hong Kong filmmaker. And while Wong got beautiful ...
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. By 2004, at the young age of forty, Cheung ...
The Heroic Trio, the early 1990s Hong Kong superhero action movie that Michelle Yeoh starred in with fellow Hong Kong superstars Maggie Cheung and the late, great Anita Mui, is getting the Criterion ...
Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk (born 20 September 1964) is a former Hong Kong actress. Raised in England and Hong Kong, she has over 70 films to her credit since starting her career in 1983. Some of her most ...
In the first minutes of Wong Kar-wai’s 1990 Days of Being Wild, Leslie Cheung strikes up a chat with Maggie Cheung. She’s lovely and lonely; he’s smoldering and supercool. Out of the blue, he purrs a ...