Goodbye / Hello
In October, 2012, I resigned my position as Associate Editor for Cineaste. I’d had a good time there, but was pressed for time and a new adventure called. For one thing, I had the great good luck to work as an Associate Producer for Chaotic Sequence Productions, Inc., run by producer/writer/director Arthur Vincie. Found in Time is an ambitious movie, but Arthur’s efforts have been rewarded with six first place prizes. I hope I will work with him again.
Knee Deep in Hong Kong
In April of 2012, I signed a contract with Wiley-Blackwell, working again with Jayne Fargnoli, to edit the Wiley-Blackwell A Companion To Wong Kar-Wai. What a treat! This is a project very close to my heart. Wong Kar-wai is one of the greatest filmmakers in the world, and arguably the greatest living Asian filmmaker, and yet there is comparatively little written about his films. I have had the honor of assembling a literally world class company of 24 critics and scholars who will right this wrong. They hail from Australia, France, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Singapore, and the United States. The list includes Ackbar Abbas, Raymond Bellour, Giorgio Biancorosso, Kingsley Bolton, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Yomi Braister, Shohini Chaudhuri, Michel Chion, David Desser, Karen Fang, Matt Fung, Mike Ingham, Joseph Kickasola, Vivian Lee, Helen Hok-sze Leung, Gina Marchetti, Joseph McElhaney, Kenneth Provencher, Angelo Restivo, Berenice Reynaud, Carlos Rojas, Stephen Teo, Yiman Wang, Wai-Ping Yau, Esther Yau, and Audrey Yue.