Contents Film International #40

Editorial
by Sarah Perks and Andy Willis

Hong Kong Cinema Since 1997: Troughs and Peaks
by Andy Willis

From Wah Dee to CEO: Andy Lau and Performing the Authentic Hong Kong Star
by Leung Wing-Fai

Another Week, Another Johnnie To Film: The Marketing and Distribution of Postcolonial Hong Kong Action Cinema
by Daniel Martin

Age of Independents: New Hong Kong Film and Video
by Teresa Kwong Pui-see

Visible Secrets: Hong Kong's Women Filmmakers
by Sarah Perks


DVD Reviews: Classe tous risques (Tim Palmer), Shadows, Faces (Todd Berliner), Bigger Than Life (Paul Douglas Grant), Berlin Alexanderplatz (Evans Chan) 

Book Reviews: Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain (David Sterritt), The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography (Kristi McKim), The Films of Tod Browning, The Hollywood Horror Film 1931-1941: Madness in a Social Landscape (Mark Bould), Abel Ferrara (Ken Provencher), The Solaris Effect: Art and Artifice in Contemporary American Film (R. Colin Tait), Screening Politics: The Politician in American Movies, What Have They Built You To Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America, Hollywood: From Vietnam to Reagan... and Beyond, Hollywood: Politics and Society (Michael Coyne)

Film Reviews: Three Monkeys (Ethan de Seife)

Around the Circuit: Cannes Film Festival 2009 (Jan Lumholdt)