John Woo
fabrizio maltesePhoto by Fabrizio Maltese/EF Press/fabriziomaltese.com. Venice 2010. Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
John Woo
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Venice 2010. Su Chao-Pin and John Woo's "Reign of Assassins"
David Hudson"After facilitating the dispersal of countless bullet casings via the slow-motion shootouts he pioneered in his films," blogs Dave Itzkoff for the New York Times, "John Woo was rewarded Friday with
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The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival Shifts Direction
Doug CummingsAbove: Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel's La pivellina. The recently wrapped Los Angeles Film Festival succeeded in reinventing itself—a new location in "revitalized" downtown with a new
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Pedro Costa, Midnight Eye, ND/NF
David Hudson"For a small group of diligent cinephiles, Criterion's Letters From Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa is one of the most anticipated DVD releases of the year, or the last several," writes Sam
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Rotterdam 2010: Malaysian Gems
Daniel KasmanKill them with kindness—a rare approach and quality for political cinema, usually so bristling and over-eager. Amir Muhammad’s Malaysian Gods takes an instructive and benign attitude. The video traces
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"Red Cliff," Tim Burton and More NYC Goings On
David HudsonLike Aleksandr Sokurov's The Sun (see yesterday's entry), John Woo's Red Cliff opens in New York today before traveling on to other US cities. "This $80 million epic - which is being touted as the
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Blu-ray disc Report: "Red Cliff" and "Red Cliff 2" (John Woo, 2008)
Glenn KennyA critic and enthusiast as old as myself was feeling bad for director John Woo a few years back. The American-produced 2002 World War II epic Windtalkers, concerning Native American code-breakers, was