Ringo Lam Ling-Tung (simplified Chinese: 林岭东; traditional Chinese: 林嶺東; Jyutping: lam4 ling5 dung1, 8 December 1955 – 29 December 2018) was a Hong Kong filmmaker. He was known for his action and crime films produced during the Hong Kong New Wave, many of them comprising entries in the heroic bloodshed subgenre. He was nominated for six Hong Kong Film Awards, winning Best Director for his 1987 film City on Fire, which he followed with other similar films that shared a dark view of Hong Kong society, collectively known as the "On Fire" cycle.
Lam's other notable films include Aces Go Places IV (1986), Prison on Fire (1987), Undeclared War (1990), Twin Dragons (1992, co-directed with Tsui Hark), and Full Contact (1992). Many of his films starred Chow Yun-fat. He also directed several films in the United States, beginning with 1996's Maximum Risk, with Jean-Claude Van Damme. He would continue working on film productions in both Hong Kong and two more American productions with Van Damme until 2003.
In 2016, he won the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for Best Director for his Wild City, his first film in 8 years. His final film, a segment in the omnibus Septet: The Story of Hong Kong, was released posthumously in 2020, two years after his death.
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Date: 08 December 1955
By TAD SZULCSpecial to The New York Times
Adm Sodre ousted as Navy Inspector Gen; move linked to his circulation of adms secret memo holding Army acted illegally in recent coup; background; Govt imposes direct censorship
Date: 08 December 1955
Washington bur chief P R Leach retiring; E A Lahey successor
Date: 08 December 1955
14 heard; closed hearings end; Hennings presides; J T McManus and J Aronson, Natl Guardian execs, invoke 5th Amendment; McManus says he was queried on employment prior to '48 and on period when he was NY Guild pres; Aronson says he was asked about his employment by NY Times and leave of absence as Guild pub ed; Guild pres J P Murphy says McManus has not been member since '48; stresses no Communists in union adm
Date: 08 December 1955
C Alcantara Machado describes ad growth
Date: 08 December 1955
By MICHAEL STRAUSS
Michael STRAUSS
Date: 08 December 1955
Special to The New York Times
Date: 08 December 1955
US Army Engineers Corps to get proposals
Date: 09 December 1955
Natl Car loading Corp and Air Express Internatl agree on pact providing for single bill of lading on through surface-air movement of lcl export freight; shippers can now call Natl Carloading at 1 of its 150 stations to pick up consignments for overseas shipment by plane
Date: 09 December 1955
By JANE NICKERSON
Jane NICKERSON