The best Michael Hui’s documentary movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Michael Hui’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Michael Hui.
Jackie Chan: Fast, Funny and Furious
6.5/10
Not since the great Bruce Lee has a Chinese martial artist taken Hollywood by storm. Leaping out of dire poverty and obscurity, Jackie Chan has become the sensational international superstar of mayhem and merriment! This presentation of Chan's career covers his work with the legendary Bruce Lee, his struggle against typecasting in the Bruce Lee mold, and the resounding success of his breakthrough movies mixing amazing acrobatic artistry with brilliant comic ability.
Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns
Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider film culture.
The Posterist
Mr Yuen Tai-Yung (b. 1941) is a Chinese artist known for his creation of over 200 iconic Hong Kong movie posters - which include many films from the Bruce Lee, Hui Brothers, Stephen Chow, Jacky Chan and Sammo Hung's kung fu and comedy series.
This documentary chronicles the director's quest to find the reclusive master and subsequent encounters with the man within a period of 12 months. It captures the life and art of the self-taught genius who single-handedly depicted the look and feel of what can be describe as the Golden Era of Hong Kong Cinema from 1975 to 1992.
Western audiences might recognize some familiar faces from the prolific painter's recent works - undeniably breathtaking - such as the portraits of Marlon Brando, Michael Jackson, James Dean, John Lennon, Audrey Hepburn and Anne Hathaway.
