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Release of the Week
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Film
The BFI have been working hard on their Masters of Cinema collection, a British equivalent to the Criterion Collection. This is their fifth and final introduction into the John Cassavetes collection which includes Shadows, Faces, A Woman Under the Influence and Opening Night. The story of Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara – mesmerising), a small strip-club owner who gets in too deep with some murky characters because of his consuming gambling addiction which leaves him $23,000 in the red. The mob then use this as a handle to blackmail him into murdering someone to wipe off some of his debt. It goes behind the scenes of a seemingly successful man...
Release of the Week
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Film
The BFI have been working hard on their Masters of Cinema collection, a British equivalent to the Criterion Collection. This is their fifth and final introduction into the John Cassavetes collection which includes Shadows, Faces, A Woman Under the Influence and Opening Night. The story of Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara – mesmerising), a small strip-club owner who gets in too deep with some murky characters because of his consuming gambling addiction which leaves him $23,000 in the red. The mob then use this as a handle to blackmail him into murdering someone to wipe off some of his debt. It goes behind the scenes of a seemingly successful man...
- 7/19/2013
- by Adam Lowes
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
On the surface The Man From Nowhere is a pretty generic Asian action drama, reminding me somewhat of the Heroic Bloodshed films from Hk in the 90's but what saves it from dropping from your thoughts right after you've done watching it is the amount of brutal and well executed violence it contains in its rather simple story.
Pretty boy heartthrob Won Bin, here trying to portray angst and a troubled soul by combing his hair over one eye and staring blankly at people, is a mysterious loner that manages a pawn shop in a run down apartment building. He reluctantly befriends a small girl who is a regular at the shop, pawning her own things for money for food for herself and her heroin addicted stripper mom. He keeps his distance though, not allowing her, or anybody else for that matter, to get too close to him.
The little...
Pretty boy heartthrob Won Bin, here trying to portray angst and a troubled soul by combing his hair over one eye and staring blankly at people, is a mysterious loner that manages a pawn shop in a run down apartment building. He reluctantly befriends a small girl who is a regular at the shop, pawning her own things for money for food for herself and her heroin addicted stripper mom. He keeps his distance though, not allowing her, or anybody else for that matter, to get too close to him.
The little...
- 9/24/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Cheung played by Andy Lau (House of Flying Daggers, Infernal Affairs, Fulltime Killer), is a man whose cancer is in the advanced stages, with a maximum of 4 weeks to live. Cheung however has a few scores left to settle and does not intend to sit around and pass into death quietly. He sets about executing an elaborate plan to see his scores settled. This starts a 78 hour game of cat and mouse between him and hard boiled cop Inspector Ho played by Ching Wan Lau (Colour of the Truth, Full Alert, Return to a Better Tomorrow).
Running Out Of Time was written by French writing team Julien Carbon and Lauraunt Courtiaud and then further adapted into the Chinese screenplay by Nai-Hoi Yau whose writing credits include Ptu and The Bare-Footed Kid. Although French the writers are long time fans of Hong Kong cinema and have created a great plot with...
Running Out Of Time was written by French writing team Julien Carbon and Lauraunt Courtiaud and then further adapted into the Chinese screenplay by Nai-Hoi Yau whose writing credits include Ptu and The Bare-Footed Kid. Although French the writers are long time fans of Hong Kong cinema and have created a great plot with...
- 3/5/2010
- by Leigh
- Latemag.com/film
"I'd never get used to the meetings. I hate talk. I don't know how to talk."
John Woo was describing the difference between working in Asia and in Hollywood when he made a point to laugh at his own inability to adapt. It's not an alien trait in creative types, who are typically more adept at invention than negotiation. Though he seemed reluctant to criticize the American film industry, Woo had nothing good to say about it, either. One only had to look at the dip in quality in the director's filmography to suspect that he never fully adjusted.
Now having taken a productive six-year respite, he returns to America with a film called Red Cliff, brought back from his Chinese sojourn. It shouldn't surprise any of his fans that it shows a long-awaited return to form.
Seventeen years ago, John Woo was king of his genre. After a string...
John Woo was describing the difference between working in Asia and in Hollywood when he made a point to laugh at his own inability to adapt. It's not an alien trait in creative types, who are typically more adept at invention than negotiation. Though he seemed reluctant to criticize the American film industry, Woo had nothing good to say about it, either. One only had to look at the dip in quality in the director's filmography to suspect that he never fully adjusted.
Now having taken a productive six-year respite, he returns to America with a film called Red Cliff, brought back from his Chinese sojourn. It shouldn't surprise any of his fans that it shows a long-awaited return to form.
Seventeen years ago, John Woo was king of his genre. After a string...
- 11/26/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
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