Paul Martinovic Jun 27, 2019
John Travolta and Nicolas Cage scored a big hit in John Woo's Face/Off, a wonderfully off-kilter John Woo movie.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
One of the great pleasures of following genre cinema is the long, enduring onscreen conversation that’s taken place between movie directors from the East and the West. It's a creative push and pull which has resulted in some of the most boundary-pushing, inventive and important films ever made. When Akira Kurosawa wrote The Hidden Fortress, an airy homage to the John Ford Westerns he loved so much, he couldn't predict its rollicking adventuring would be re-interpreted and sent into space by George Lucas to form the basis of the most successful film franchise in history via Star Wars. Similarly, when Ringo Lam took the tropes of '70s Eurocrime and American gangster movies of the '30s and '40s,...
John Travolta and Nicolas Cage scored a big hit in John Woo's Face/Off, a wonderfully off-kilter John Woo movie.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
One of the great pleasures of following genre cinema is the long, enduring onscreen conversation that’s taken place between movie directors from the East and the West. It's a creative push and pull which has resulted in some of the most boundary-pushing, inventive and important films ever made. When Akira Kurosawa wrote The Hidden Fortress, an airy homage to the John Ford Westerns he loved so much, he couldn't predict its rollicking adventuring would be re-interpreted and sent into space by George Lucas to form the basis of the most successful film franchise in history via Star Wars. Similarly, when Ringo Lam took the tropes of '70s Eurocrime and American gangster movies of the '30s and '40s,...
- 7/28/2017
- Den of Geek
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