GeneChing
04-12-2017, 08:54 AM
This is really cool. I never knew about Yuen Tai-yung. I would love to see this documentary.
In pictures: Bruce Lee, Stephen Chow, the Hui Brothers and more from Hong Kong’s top movie poster artist (http://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2085693/pictures-bruce-lee-stephen-chow-hui-brothers-and-more-hong-kongs-top)
From 1975 until 1992 Yuen Tai-yung made more than 200 beautiful and eye-catching posters for Hong Kong films, a career celebrated in a documentary returning briefly to the city’s screens
PUBLISHED : Friday, 07 April, 2017, 5:30pm
UPDATED : Saturday, 08 April, 2017, 11:06pm
http://cdn3.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/980x551/public/images/methode/2017/04/07/6843d5e2-1aa7-11e7-b4ed-ac719e54b474_1280x720_120551.jpg
Edmund Lee
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At once one of Hong Kong’s most popular artists – and perhaps one of its least known, until recently – Yuen Tai-yung, the mastermind behind many of the city’s best-known hand-painted film posters, is set to take the spotlight at the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards when he’s honoured with the Professional Achievement Award on Sunday.
Soul Mate, Cold War 2 lead Hong Kong Film Awards nominations notable for their recognition of new filmmakers
Born in 1941 in Zhejiang and raised in Shanghai, Yuen moved to Hong Kong as a teenager, and had worked in advertising agencies when he chanced upon a commission in 1975 to design the poster for The Last Message, the second film of the Hui brothers (Michael, Sam and Ricky).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKRCwXNz6Vc
The self-taught painter would go on to create posters for more than 200 films – including 17 featuring the Huis, and others starring Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow – before he retired and migrated to New Zealand in 1992.
http://cdn3.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/images/methode/2017/04/07/dba67984-1aa9-11e7-b4ed-ac719e54b474_1320x770_120551.jpg
Yuen is widely revered for his cartoonish illustrations that show an uncanny resemblance to the stars and for an ingenious ability to abstract a movie’s plot down to its essence. His life and art was concisely chronicled in The Posterist , the 2016 film directed by first-time documentary filmmaker Hui See-wai, son of comedy legend Michael.
The Posterist is back on limited release at Broadway Cinematheque, in Yau Ma Tei, from April 8.
http://cdn3.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/images/methode/2017/04/07/2f6ade3e-1aaa-11e7-b4ed-ac719e54b474_972x_120551.jpg
There are more posters that y'all will surely recognize at the end of this article, if you follow the link.
In pictures: Bruce Lee, Stephen Chow, the Hui Brothers and more from Hong Kong’s top movie poster artist (http://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2085693/pictures-bruce-lee-stephen-chow-hui-brothers-and-more-hong-kongs-top)
From 1975 until 1992 Yuen Tai-yung made more than 200 beautiful and eye-catching posters for Hong Kong films, a career celebrated in a documentary returning briefly to the city’s screens
PUBLISHED : Friday, 07 April, 2017, 5:30pm
UPDATED : Saturday, 08 April, 2017, 11:06pm
http://cdn3.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/980x551/public/images/methode/2017/04/07/6843d5e2-1aa7-11e7-b4ed-ac719e54b474_1280x720_120551.jpg
Edmund Lee
edmund.lee@scmp.com
http://twitter.com/thatEdmundLee
At once one of Hong Kong’s most popular artists – and perhaps one of its least known, until recently – Yuen Tai-yung, the mastermind behind many of the city’s best-known hand-painted film posters, is set to take the spotlight at the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards when he’s honoured with the Professional Achievement Award on Sunday.
Soul Mate, Cold War 2 lead Hong Kong Film Awards nominations notable for their recognition of new filmmakers
Born in 1941 in Zhejiang and raised in Shanghai, Yuen moved to Hong Kong as a teenager, and had worked in advertising agencies when he chanced upon a commission in 1975 to design the poster for The Last Message, the second film of the Hui brothers (Michael, Sam and Ricky).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKRCwXNz6Vc
The self-taught painter would go on to create posters for more than 200 films – including 17 featuring the Huis, and others starring Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow – before he retired and migrated to New Zealand in 1992.
http://cdn3.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/images/methode/2017/04/07/dba67984-1aa9-11e7-b4ed-ac719e54b474_1320x770_120551.jpg
Yuen is widely revered for his cartoonish illustrations that show an uncanny resemblance to the stars and for an ingenious ability to abstract a movie’s plot down to its essence. His life and art was concisely chronicled in The Posterist , the 2016 film directed by first-time documentary filmmaker Hui See-wai, son of comedy legend Michael.
The Posterist is back on limited release at Broadway Cinematheque, in Yau Ma Tei, from April 8.
http://cdn3.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/images/methode/2017/04/07/2f6ade3e-1aaa-11e7-b4ed-ac719e54b474_972x_120551.jpg
There are more posters that y'all will surely recognize at the end of this article, if you follow the link.