Guides

Practical guides for film-goers in Hong Kong: subtitles, trailers, festivals and getting more out of what you watch.

• Downloading YouTube subtitles in Chinese and English: picking the right trackHong Kong trailers and interviews often carry several caption tracks. Which one to download, how to tell a real one from a machine's, and Traditional versus Simplified.
• Taking a visitor to the cinema in Hong Kong: a subtitle checklistWhether a friend from abroad can follow the film depends on the film, not the cinema. A short checklist, and how to preview the dialogue before you book.
• Researching festival films fast, with free transcriptsA festival programme is fifty films you have never heard of. The trailers and director Q&As are on YouTube, and reading them takes a fraction of the time watching does.