The illustrious and industrious David Bordwell has begun reporting from the Hong Kong Film Festival (“Dragons at your doorstep“), where the weather appears to be well-suited to movie-watching:
Once more, Hong Kong. Still a spellbinding place, although the municipality is doing whatever it can to force pedestrians underground and surrender the streets to cars. Even a dragon has to wait for the pedestrian light. And now, thanks to the sandstorms in China, the air is thick with pollution. I have taken defensive measures. My students probably wished I’d worn one of these more often.
Much more festival news and distinctively Bordwellian imagery here.
(photos by David Bordwell)
UPDATE (3/26/10): “The spy who came in from the typhoon.”