Politically and sexually frank, Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan’s 2001 film “Lan Yu” affronts the current Chinese regime with two incendiary topics: the 1989 student uprising in Tiananmen Square, and ...

Thinking about Stanley Kwan’s Lan Yu, I find it impossible to separate the film from a memory of adolescence, one that I sometimes take pleasure in glorifying as a key moment in my cinephilic puberty.

Considered among the benchmarks of contemporary Hong Kong cinema, Stanley Kwan's 1992 opus Actress, a wildly ambitious biopic about Ruan Ling-yu (dubbed "the Greta Garbo of Chinese cinema"), had more ...