The Works

We look again at the work of Eric Rohmer, who died last week. Born Jean-Marie Maurice Schérer, Eric Rohmer took his pseudonym from two famous artists, actor and director Erich von Stroheim and writer Sax Rohmer.A key figure of the French New Wave,...

Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus” begins in 1994, shortly after Nelson Mandela (played here by Morgan Freeman) emerged from 27 years in prison and became president of South Africa. That was a remarkable achievement in itself. What made it even more remarkabl...

Regular viewers of The Works will remember that last month we featured works from the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Architecture\Urbanism. On Saturday, one of those works, Kacey Wong’s “Paddling Home”, took to the water as part of an art perfo...

Until the end of this month, the Kwai Fung Hin gallery is presenting, at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, an exhibition called “The Story of Stone” by Chinese artist Ma Desheng. Ma Desheng moved to Paris early on in search of more creative freedom. He became...

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On the Saturday 23rd January and Sunday 24th, young Chinese harpist Dan Yu and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra reveal two contrasting characteristics of a rarely featured solo instrument. The harp. On Saturday night they highlight the rhythmic ath...

Last weekend, audiences had the chance to hear, in an appropriately atmospheric setting, the Nan Liang Gardens, the sounds of an instrument that’s changed little throughout the thousands of years of its existence: the guqin. We talk to guqin players an...

For the majority of Hollywood directors, film is about big production values, spectacle, and an emphasis on plot over character. Lots of explosions too. But for the French movie director Eric Rohmer, who died yesterday, film was mostly about the human,...

Chinese author Cheung Oi-lin, or Eileen Chang, wrote the story on which the movie “Lust, Caution” was based. Now the Hong Kong Film Archive is presenting a retrospective of her work. This week, we look at Eileen Chang’s Hong Kong connection, and talk t...

Three years ago, producer Emmanuel Benbihy asked 21 directors to each make a short segment focusing on a different neighbourhood of Paris. For a movie called “Paris, je t’aime”. Now he’s returned with a similar formula in “New York, I Love You”. This t...