{"id":503659,"date":"2026-06-21T07:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T07:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/503659\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T07:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T07:59:10","slug":"lisa-lu-reunites-with-fans-at-shanghai-screening-of-the-arch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/503659\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Lu Reunites With Fans at Shanghai Screening of ‘The Arch’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLisa Lu<\/a>, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival<\/a>, joined a packed audience for a post-screening event celebrating \u201cThe Arch,\u201d the 1968 landmark of Chinese-language arthouse cinema in which she starred.<\/p>\n

\n\tTurning 100 this year by traditional Chinese age reckoning, she made a surprise appearance following the screening that drew extended applause from the audience.<\/p>\n

\n\tHer path to \u201cThe Arch\u201d was accidental. The film\u2019s director, Cecile Tang Shu Shuen, had originally cast another actor in the lead role, who subsequently turned it down. \u201cI volunteered myself back then. I was incredibly fortunate to land a part in this film,\u201d Lu said.<\/p>\n

\n\tLu praised both the director and the film\u2019s score. \u201cThe director possesses profound cultural literacy, and every frame is breathtaking,\u201d she said. \u201cMost importantly, Mr. Lui Tsun-Yuen\u2019s score elevates the entire production, underscoring the inner emotions of every character through music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Arch\u201d marked the directorial debut of Hong Kong filmmaker Tang Shu Shuen and drew on traditional Chinese poetry and painting to shape its visual language. Its restrained cinematography helped establish it as a benchmark for Chinese-language arthouse film.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film underwent a full 4K restoration in 2025 and screened as part of Cannes Classics at the 78th Cannes Film Festival before its Shanghai run.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Shanghai screening added to a run of honors for Lu that included her becoming the oldest person ever to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame<\/a> \u2013 unveiled as the 2,811th star at 1708 Vine Street last year. <\/p>\n

\n\tLu is perhaps best known to international audiences for her role as Ah Ma, the matriarch of Singapore\u2019s wealthiest family, in Warner Bros.\u2019 \u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u201d (2018). She holds the distinction of being the only person in Hollywood to have voting membership across the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Television Academy and the Screen Actors\u2019 Guild, and has been designated a \u201cLiving Legend\u201d by the Chinese government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisa Lu, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival, joined a packed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,231524,226146],"class_list":["post-503659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lisa-lu","tag-shanghai-international-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}