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	culturebase.net \| The international artist database \| Fruit Chan
		Fruit Chan was born in 1959 in Canton in China.
		Chan draws attention to the contrast between the hectic neon-lit life of Hongkong and the calm winter countryside of northern China.
		Fruit Chan was born in Canton in China and emigrated with his parents to Hongkong in 1969.
	www.culturebase.net /artist.php?462 (1138 words)

	Fruit Chan
		Fruit Chan presents an intelligently conceived, vibrant, and compassionate portrait of marginalization, alienation, and disconnection in Made in Hong Kong.
		By illustrating the stark contrast between the privileged, insular life of Little Cheung and the meager existence of Fan (who is often shown in exterior shots), Fruit Chan illustrates the inherent social dichotomy between Hong Kong residents and mainland Chinese immigrants during the transitional period prior to the handover of Hong Kong.
		Chan uses contrasting camerawork and color palettes to illustrate the dichotomous lifestyles of the two regions: the dark, saturated hues of anonymous hotel rooms, rapid cuts, and frenetic pace of Mongkok's streets seem alien and incongruous with the longer takes, medium shots, and warm tones of northeast China.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/chan.html (1263 words)

	Little Cheung - DVD Review
		Chan was never afraid before to let happy emotions crumble into heartbreaking ones but despite a stuffed 2 hours, Little Cheung is a superb culmination of a Fruit Chan pouring much of his heart onto the screen about the world around him and a honing of filmmaking skills.
		Chan's handling of melodrama is in reality rather forced, especially with the choosen music cues by Lam Wah Chuen and Chu Hing-Cheung but the fact is that this comes well-deserved as we've come to familiarize ourselves with the themes, the trials and tribulations of the characters.
		Another discovery of Fruit Chan's, who most likely spends all his downtime between movies on the Hong Kong streets, searching for potential talent, Yiu not only proves capable of anchoring the film, but is such a wonderful natural talent.
	www.sogoodreviews.com /reviews/littlecheung.htm (1768 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| \| Sweet and sour dreams
		Made in Hong Kong, directed by Fruit Chan, is the story of a group of HK youth trying to make sense of their lives in the wake of the handover of 1997.
		Chan contrasts the breakdown of the family unit with social conditions, a point made by the fact that Moon's father lives with a mistress from the mainland - "a side effect of economic reform in China," says Chan.
		Born in China in 1959 and raised in HK, Chan is not part of the new wave, but he articulates a distinct youth identity that is no longer Chinese or British, but distinctly Hong Kong, despite the social flux of the city.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Feature_Story/feature_story/0,4120,61016,00.html (783 words)

	Fruit Chan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fruit Chan (Chinese: 陳果) (born April 15, 1959 in Guangdong, China) is an independent Hong Kong film director, best known for his style of film reflecting the everyday life of Hong Kong Chinese.
		He is well known for using amateur actors (such as Sam Lee in Made in Hong Kong, Wong Yau-nam in Hollywood-Hong Kong) in his films.
		Fruit Chan at the Hong Kong Movie Data Base
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fruit_Chan (220 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Fruit Chan’s Three Extremes: Dumplings
		Of any contemporary Asian director, Fruit Chan is not the obvious choice to contribute to the follow-up to the successful Hong Kong horror anthology Three (2002).
		Fruit Chan, an indie art-movie director whose work explores the underside of Hong Kong society, seems on the face of it the odd man out.
		Chan is looking elsewhere, at the way his characters manoeuvre themselves to greater or lesser success in order to survive at the lower levels of a harsh society.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /48/dumplings.htm (1108 words)

	Chinese Movie Review \| Three...Extremes: Dumplings (2004) Fruit Chan, Miriam Yeung
		Helping Chan unleash the first of the trilogy at moviegoers is cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who has done some of the most visually brilliant films from Asia in the last 5 years (including Zhang Yimou's "Hero" and frequent collaborator Wong Kar Wai's "In the Mood for Love" and the upcoming "2046").
		I wouldn't be surprised if Chan's film proved to be the best of the three, as Peter Chan's own "Going Home" proved to be the best of the first "Three".
		Chan has picked brilliantly in Bai Ling, who has been doing recent big-budget Hollywood films in America since fleeing her native China, and was recently seen in the Jude Law sci-fi actioner "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow".
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/three2dumplings.htm (941 words)

	cityonfire.com \| Three... Extremes
		The talent behind the camera is top-notch, including Fruit Chan, Chan Wook-Park, and Takashi Miike, as well as renowned cinematographer Christopher Doyle; and there is nary a long-haired ghost in sight.
		I'm interested in seeing how Chan expanded the short into a 90-minute movie because the story is satisfying in its own right, but compared to what comes later in "Three...Extremes", "Dumplings" is not the most appetizing dish on the menu (couldn't resist that either).
		I'm happy to report that Chan Wook-Park's segment is superb; from its opening moments as a film-within-a-film, Park plays with the audience's notions of reality, revealing that things are not always what they seem, not only on the silver screen but in real life.
	www.cityonfire.com /japanese/threeextremes.html (1356 words)

	Public Toilet - DVD Review
		With all the sick people the movie mostly briefly covers, Chan once again emphasizes the hope youth will bring to a needed brighter future and while all this has never been an invalid thematic or symbolism, Fruit Chan definitely has made the study more compelling in the past.
		Chan has always has something valid to say and none is different here but I doubt you'll find many who are willing this time to wait around for rewards.
		Chan covers some brief production issues with the use of DV cameras (good in bitter cold, bad in water) and the different approach to Public Toilet compared to previous films of his.
	www.sogoodreviews.com /reviews/publictoilet.htm (1244 words)

	Chinese Movie Review \| Three...Extremes (2004) Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike, Park Chan-wook
		Starring Miriam Yeung as an aging starlet trying desperately to hold onto her youth as well as her husband, the story is shot by famed cinematographer Christopher Doyle ("2046").
		Of the three, Fruit Chan's "Dumplings" feels the most rounded, an abstract conclusion that is the direct result of this reviewer having seen the 90-minute version, something "Cut" and "Box" can't hope to achieve due to their edited down 40-minute running time.
		Although the release of Fruit Chan's "Dumplings" on DVD before the "Extremes" anthology brings forth some problems (one of which is that you're basically paying for two DVDs to see the same 3 stories when you could have just bought one and seen the same 3 stories), it also introduces a most intriguing notion.
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/threeextremes.htm (1117 words)

	Amazon.ca: 3 Extremes: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		First up, "Dumplings," is from Hong Kong's Fruit Chan, and it's the most cogent (and ickiest) of the bunch.
		Fruit Chan's segment, "Dumplings," is an unappetizing though aesthetically gorgeous presentation of...
		In that regard Fruit Chan comes up with a situation that will truly horrify you and a final scene that could well make you close your eyes and vow never to take a bath as long as you live.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000CRR3ME (1798 words)

	Curious about crap: Fruit Chan's Public Toilet (2002)
		Yet though Chan's movies do not have a theme per se, they are eminently and obviously political: it's the precise portrayal of the protagonists at a particular point in time and space that gives the films their polemical pull.
		There's a feeling in Chan's films of anything goes, but also a feeling of fear that anything has gone by already, that the characters' urges are intensified by a deliberate blindness to the futility of their actions, for otherwise what's the point in going on.
		The defining scene, however, of Chan's oeuvre is near the end of this film, when one of the ex-soldiers is shot in the back of his head and is too surprised to go down in the blink of an eye.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/03/24/toilet.html (1220 words)

	Three Extremes: Dumplings (2004)
		A ninety-minute version of director Fruit Chan's segment of the horror omnibus Three...Extremes (which also happens to be the sort-of sequel to 2002's award-winning horror anthology Three), Dumplings comes courtesy of a variety of unexpected creators.
		Fruit Chan's hands-off realism could be undermined by the film's fantasy aspect, and the journey taken doesn't result in anything concrete or enormously defining.
		Since Fruit Chan chooses not to go the over-the-top route, and instead handles matters in a quietly revealing fashion, some people might see Dumplings as boring stuff not worthy of its inherently alarming subject matter.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /reviews/three_extremes_dumplings.htm (1224 words)

	Fruit Chan - Biography, Photos, and more - Moviefone
		culturebase.net on Fruit Chan: Fruit Chan was born in 1959 in Canton in China.
		In the 90s, he was the first Hongkong filmmaker to go beyond the genre of...
		Fruit Chan - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Fruit Chan Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/fruit-chan/204539/main (95 words)

	'My Style Is Very Unusual' - TIME Asia Magazine, Sep. 02, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Chan: This is a very commercial city and if you do things my way—the independent way—you don't want to spend more money for just actors.
		Chan: The big boy and the little boy I found on the street.
		Chan: "Fruit" is a direct translation from Chinese.
	time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501020902-344144,00.html (478 words)

	Amazon.com: 3 Extremes: DVD: Takashi Miike,Fruit Chan,Chan-wook Park,Ling Bai,Pauline Lau,Tony Leung Ka Fai,Meme ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Chan proves he has a knack for direction and a few moody, creepy shots, but the guy knows nothing about setting up what should have been a surefire Chinese pot-sticker of Grand Guignol ghoulishness.
		Fruit Chan might want to take his talents on the road to the increasingly popular food-TV circuit, since he manages to make the little tender vittles (with finges and hands and toes, and crunchy little craniums!) look yummy.
		Chan's "Dumplings" is an obvious, simplistic morality play with an ending I could see from a mile away.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000CRR3ME?v=glance (2596 words)

	A Bittersweet Meat - TIME Asia Magazine, Sep. 02, 2002
		Indie director Fruit Chan established himself with gritty films about the "real" Hong Kong, the dingy city beneath the skyscrapers.
		The movie is Zhou's first outside of mainland China, but her luscious portrayal of Tong Tong, a woman by turns wide-eyed and desperate, shanghais the show.
		Life in Hong Kong may be getting bleaker by the day, but Fruit Chan knows the lights of Hollywood haven't gone out yet.
	time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501020902-344143,00.html (716 words)

	Calendar Event Text
		As Hong Kong has made the historic transition from British colony to Chinese SAR (Special Administrative Region), Chan¹s elegiac/anarchic remaking of genre cinema has found the era¹s indispensable narratives not in the gleaming highrises of the rich and powerful, but in the crowded housing projects and pulsing streets of immigrants and the working classes.
		DURIAN DURIAN (Liulian Piao Piao) (Hong Kong/France, 2000) In person: Fruit Chan Chan suggests the durian, the Southeast Asian "King of Fruits" renowned for its inimitable spiked shell, creamy inside pulp and supremely pungent odor, as a metaphor for Hong Kong's own insinuating charm.
		Director Chan elicits effortless performances from a cast of non-professionals in an earthy, exquisitely observed slice of contemporary Hong Kong.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /calendar/0001/fulltext/fulltext5736496276.html (552 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Interview with Fruit Chan
		Fruit Chan’s Dumplings provoked unprecedented attention at the 2005 Melbourne International Film Festival, first and foremost because of its controversial and idiosyncratic narrative, but also because it was screened as part of the program dedicated to the work of the Hong Kong iconoclast.
		Fruit Chan: Hong Kong cinema has been extremely productive since the mid-1980s, but now we have a stagnation period that has been going on for almost five years.
		If you remember Made in Hong Kong (Chan’s first film — B.T.), there were various types of government housing there, ones with a long corridor, with an enclosed courtyard, etc. Some architects who saw my films instantly recognized the idea behind this “stylish” exploration of Hong Kong architecture and found it fascinating.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /50/fruitiv.htm (1342 words)

	Arrow In The Head's movie review of Three Extremes: Byung-hun Lee/Director,Won-hie Lim/Terrorist,Miriam Yeung /Ching
		A sequel to the less successful "Three" (2002), Three Extremes dealt more with human horror (the scariest kind to me) as opposed to the supernatural type and thankfully, all three accounts came through in their own special ways.
		Fruit Chan was the lower key one of the lot; his direction served the story while showcasing swell dark atmosphere and hints of style.
		Dumplings was first a feature film that Fruit Chan edited down as a short for this anthology.
	www.joblo.com /arrow/reviews.php?id=1033 (1508 words)

	Fruit Chan Dumplings Three Extremes Saam gaang yi Chan-wook Park Cut Three Extremes Saam gaang yi Takashi Miike Box ...
		In Fruit Chan's "Dumplings," shot by Christopher Doyle, Mrs.
		The big difference is that the LionsGate have included the long version of Fruit Chan's Dumplings, as well as the shorter version on the 1st disc.
		The 'Making of' featurette may hold some interest for Chan fans and the Miike commentary on 'Box' is good enough to again support the LionsGate - it may be slightly zoomed-in in spots but it is not hazy enough to make an extravagant difference on most systems.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReviews20/three_extremes_dvd_review.htm (811 words)

	Fruit Chan - Famous Chinese People - Chinese
		Fruit Chan - Famous Chinese People - Chinese
		Fruit Chan (陳果) (born April 15, 1959) is an independent Hong Kong film director, best known for his style of film reflecting the everyday life of Hong Kong Chinese.
		He was born in the Guangdong province of southern China.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Fruit_Chan (198 words)

	Fruit CHAN
		The director Born in China in 1959, Fruit CHAN was ten years old when his family moved to Hong Kong.
		After attending the Hong Kong Film Center, he started working at a large studio as an assistant director, collaborating, among others, with Jacky Chan.
		It is precisely this sense of helplessness that prompted me to make this film.
	www.pardo.ch /1997/filmprg/r006.html (236 words)

	UW Press: Search Books in Print
		This book examines how Fruit Chan's film "Durian Durian" sensitively portrays the unsettling seismic shifts affecting the inhabitants of both China and Hong Kong in a post-1997 context.
		This is one of the first studies of Fruit Chan's work and presents him as one of Hong Kong's key filmmakers, worthy of serious critical study.
		"Durian Durian" is one of Chan's masterpieces and its study is of interest to anyone who is concerned with post-1997 realities in Hong Kong and China as visualized on film.
	www.washington.edu /uwpress/search/books/GANFRU.html (263 words)

	Made In Hong Kong - DVDs & VHS - MovieMail UK
		Autumn Moon, the central protagonist, is no stereotypical young rebel street punk, but a complex character striving for stability in his life even as events take a darker turn towards a violent denouement.
		"Establishes Fruit Chan overnight as a director of substance and great promise" Sight&Sound.
		Scripted and shot over a period of years from 1994 and financed on a borrowed budget, Fruit Chan's exhilarating feature debut subsequently triumphed on the festival circuit.
	www.moviemail-online.co.uk /films/9727 (272 words)

	Three...Extremes (aka. Three, Monster) (Miike, Chan, Park)
		Less elaborate but perhaps more frightening than ``Cut’’ is Fruit Chan’s ``Dumplings.’’ The story, about a woman (Yeung Chin Wah) who tries to recover her youth by eating dumplings made of aborted fetuses, seems like something that could unfortunately occur in our youth-obsessed society.
		Under Fruit Chan's re-telling of Lillian Lee's well-etched characters, comedy actor Miriam Yeung is inducing frights instead of laughter this time as she portrays the darker side of human nature.
		As for Chan's movies, I recommend Made In Hong Kong, cus it seems that all of you like gangsta punk movies.
	www.tarantino.info /forum/index.php?topic=2006.0 (2171 words)

	The CHUD.COM Message Boards - 'Three... Extremes'--straight-to-video(Takashi Miike, Park Chan-Wook and Fruit Chan)
		02-17-2005 06:31 PM I liked Fruit Chan's part, but I had watched the full version before I saw the short version.
		Miike's bit didn't do too much for me, but his movies don't really interest me as a whole.
		Though I enjoyed Fruit Chan's entry as well.
	www.chud.com /forums/printthread.php?t=77619 (199 words)

	Movie Message Boards - Three Extremes
		This, a horror anthology consisting of three shorts by Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike, and Park Chan-wook, looks quite good.
		"Cut", Park Chan-wook's segment, is the most stylistically energetic, Chan's is the purely ickiest, Miike's is more of a traditional Japanese ghost story-style story.
		"Fruit" is the literal translation of his given name.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /forums/printthread.php?t=1332 (122 words)

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