Firecracker. 7.

Paul Spurrier is the Brit who "made the bold decision that it was within his ability to research, write and direct a film in the Thai language, with a Thai cast, and based on very specific aspects of local culture." The result is P, already winning awards on the festival circuit; Robert Williamson talks to him.

Besides a short piece on Asian features at Cannes, the bulk of the new issue of the London-based Firecracker is made up of interviews and reviews:

• "I think it's making action movies that keeps me young," Jackie Chan tells Erika Franklin, who also reviews a Project A box set and interviews Stephen Chow and Kang Je-gyu.

• In theaters... somewhere: Wing Fai Leung on Divergence; Alison Wong on Eros; Nick North on Kung Fu Hustle and Franklin on Café Lumière.

• DVDs: North on Tae Guk Gi, Acacia, Addicted, Cop on a Mission, No Man is an Island, Run 2 U, Humanist and A Bizarre Love Triangle; Franklin on The Quiet Family and The Doll Master; Ziad Semaan on Millionaire's Express and: "Lee Young-jae's The Harmonium in My Memory finally comes to DVD almost seven years after it was initially made."

Posted by dwhudson at June 5, 2005 7:47 AM