Hong Kong Director Tsui Hark appears April 17 at a
special screening of Time and Tide for friends and
members of VC
Visual Communications and TriStar Pictures proudly
presents a sneak screening of Time and Tide, by Tsui
Hark, starring Nicholas Tse, Wu Bai and Candy Lo. Join
director Tsui Hark for a Q&A following the screening.
The screening takes place Tuesday, April 17; showtime is
7:30 p.m. The location is Columbia Pictures Studios, Sony
Backstage Theater, 10202 West Washington Blvd., Culver
City, one block east of Overland Avenue.
Tickets:
Friends of VC Members: Free with membership I.D.;
non-members $5. Become a Friends of Visual
Communications Member now and receive ticket discounts
for this and future VC special programs.
RSVP: Visual Communications, (213) 680-4462 ext. 58.
Limited Seating. Reserve your tickets now!
Synopsis:
Hong Kong, present day. A streetwise young man
becomes a bodyguard to score quick cash. He soon
befriends a once disillusioned mercenary determined to
begin life anew with the woman he just married. Although
the two men find themselves working together to foil an
assassination attempt, their partnership is short-lived:
gradually and through uncontrollable circumstances, they
will unknowingly be propelled toward opposite sides of a
deadly confrontation.
Tsui Hark's action-packed thriller, TIME AND TIDE, marks
Tsui's triumphant return to Hong Kong's unique brand of
high-octane filmmaking - a genre that he helped define
with such films as PEKING OPERA BLUES and A CHINESE
GHOST STORY.
TIME AND TIDE was shown at the Venice and Toronto
International Film Festivals and just garnered six Hong
Kong Film Awards nominations. This Spring, Tsui Hark will
be the subject of several retrospectives in the United
States including TriStar's re-release of the classic ONCE
UPON A TIME IN CHINA Parts 1 (in its original uncut
version) and 2; and Subway Cinema's "Once Upon A Time
In Hong Kong: A Tsui Hark Retrospective" at the
Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan and the Plaza Twin
in Brooklyn.
Produced by Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia,
Sony Pictures Entertainment's Asian production entity,
TIME AND TIDE brings together one of the world's most
renowned producer-directors, the hottest young star in
Hong Kong music and film (Nicholas Tse), a rock n' roll
icon from Taiwan (Wu Bai) and one of Hong Kong most
promising new talents, singer Candy Lo, who is nominated
for the Best Newcomer Award and Best Supporting
Actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
A brand name in international cinema, Tsui Hark is among
the first corps of Hong Kong filmmakers invited by
Hollywood to share the dazzling magic of their films with
the world.
His first two American projects, Columbia Pictures'
DOUBLE TEAM and KNOCK OFF, were worldwide hits. In
addition, he has more than 50 Hong Kong titles to his
credit, most of them local box-office smashes as well as
cult favorites around the world, including such
milestones as THE KILLER, A BETTER TOMORROW 1 and 2 and the
CHINESE GHOST STORY series (as producer), and
PEKING OPERA BLUES, A BETTER TOMORROW 3, and
the ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA series (as
writer/producer/director).
Special thanks to TriStar Pictures, Laura Kim and Annalee
Paulo of mPRm, and Coalition of Asian Pacifics in
Entertainment.
