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Broadway Cinematheque (Chinese: 百老匯電影中心) is a cinema in Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong, run by Broadway Circuit. Located in Prosperous Garden, a public housing estate, the cinema screens a wider spectrum of films including independent and art films than other cinemas in Hong Kong. The cinema hosts four houses with 476 seats (115 normal ...
Park Theatre (百樂戲院), Tung Lo Wan Road, Causeway Bay; opened in 1970, closed in 1997. [51] Palace Theatre at 280 Gloucester Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong 14 November 1979 - 25 April 1994 [52] Record 18-month run of "Somewhere In Time" [53] Peng Chau Theatre (坪洲戲院), Peng Chau; opened in 1978, closed in the late 1980s.
The Grand Cinema was a cinema complex located in Hong Kong in the Elements Mall at Kowloon MTR station. Operating from 2007 to 2019 [1] with 12 screens and 1,600 seats, it was Hong Kong's largest multiplex cinema in its time. [2] [3] It had a sound system designed by American sound designer Tom Hidley [3] and screened independent films. [4]
Rent (stylized in all caps) is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson. [1] Loosely based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica, and Giuseppe Giacosa, it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village, in the thriving days of the bohemian culture of Alphabet City ...
The cinema of Hong Kong (Chinese : 香港電影) is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese-language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former Crown colony, Hong Kong had a greater degree of political and economic freedom than mainland China and Taiwan, and developed into a filmmaking hub for ...
Yau Ma Tei Theatre. Categories: Cinema of Hong Kong. Buildings and structures in Hong Kong. Cinemas and movie theaters in China. Cinemas and movie theaters by city. Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Edko Films was founded in 1959 by Kong Cho-yee. [4] In 1989, his son William Kong took the business over. [ 5 ] In 1996, Edko opened the Broadway Cinematheque , a theatre specializing in showing art films .
Hong Kong action cinema is the principal source of the Hong Kong film industry's global fame. Action films from Hong Kong have roots in Chinese and Hong Kong cultures including Chinese opera, storytelling and aesthetic traditions, which Hong Kong filmmakers combined with elements from Hollywood and Japanese cinema along with new action choreography and filmmaking techniques, to create a ...