John Woo - Shed Song

The video for "Shed" song on the magic, gnomes and build dreams. Discount song "Woo" is Mark and Clive Ives, text by John Stroud Bayden. "Woo" has produced beautiful ambient music for over twenty years, albums like 'inside cozy "and" La Luna "to name a few. In recent years, the lyrics are humorous and together to create a unique style and sound. "Shed video" made in England Sussex by Lee Stephenson, Fenella Smith, Mark Symes and Ivan Ives.

Red Cliff (2-Disc Edition - Hong Kong Version)

The legendary director John Woo (A Better Tomorrow, The Killer) returns to Asia after fifteen years in Hollywood with Red Cliff, his adaptation of the classic Chinese novel Three Kingdoms. Woo epic is much more faithful and grand than the recent Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon, but the director still puts his personal stamp on the subject, focusing on his human heroes, their relationships, and especially the fellowship forged in the heat of battle. The first of two films chronicling the legendary battle, Red Cliff is probably the Chinese film event of the year.

Re-collaboration with Woo for the first time since 1992, Hard Boiled is Tony Leung Chiu Wai, fresh in its award-winning Golden Horse once Lust, Caution. Leung, the role of strategist Zhou Yu, and came to help his old friend John Woo when original lead Chow Yun-Fat released a major role. Complete all-star cast are Kaneshiro Takeshi (Warlords), Chang Chen (Go Master), Zhang Feng Yi (Emperor and the murderess), Vicki Zhao (Shaolin Soccer), Hu Jun (Infernal Affairs 2), Japanese actor Nakamura Shidou (Fearless ), and its their debut, Taiwanese model Lin Chi Ling.

208 AD Battle of Chang Ban. Liu Bei (You Yong) and his followers were saved from the armies of the Prime Minister Cao Cao (Zhang Feng Yi), but Cao Cao's lust for power continues to grow. Fearing that Liu Bei and the Kingdom of Shu can not oppose Cao Cao, strategist Zhuge Liang (Takeshi Kaneshiro) proposes an alliance with the Kingdom of Wu However, Wu ruler Sun Quan (Chang Chen) is uncertain in the challenge Cao Cao. Zhuge Liang is closer to persuade Sun Quan Zhou strategist Yu (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), and discovers in Zhou a kindred spirit versed in the arts and battle. The two men form an instant connection and decide to battle Cao Cao at the water port of Red Cliff. The alliance does not come too soon, as Cao Cao approaches with an army that far exceeds the combined Wu and Shu forces. However, Zhuge Liang has a plan - which is expected to enable the smaller force to succeed.

John Woo Receives a Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival

Esteemed director John Woo is awarded the Golden Lion for life's work to the Venice Film Festival, the recognized leader, "as the innovator of the modern language of film." John Woo directed "Mission:. Impossible II"

Hong Kong Awards Honour to Filmmaker John Woo

Hollywood action director John Woo's Hong Kong native has been recognized by the local government's contribution to the film industry in the area.

John Woo issued his successes and innovative feature films and its contribution to the profile of education in Hong Kong films in international film community.

The critically acclaimed director, who now lives in Los Angeles, began his film career in 1969 and established his reputation with the cult gangster movie, a better tomorrow.

The award will be presented the day of the seventh anniversary of the reversion of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty.

The other recipients include the famous actor and singer Andy Lau and actress Lisa Wong. (Source Photo: Sina.com)

Classic Throwback: The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah, 1972)

My own experience, Steve McQueen, when he did not leak from the cold? He is riding a motorcycle (The Great Escape), driving a car (Bullitt), or brandishing a shotgun (in The Getaway), is a comprehensive hard.

The latter is a 1972 American thriller Crime controversial director Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs before that date). Based on a novel by Jim Thompson, with a screenplay adapted by Walter Hill, The Getaway was a financial success and is now considered an offense Classic 70 - enough to cause a poorly received 1994 remake starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, anyway.

Opening sequences you know immediately that this is a film Peckinpah. This is a complete rejection of the Convention, such as using a random, out-of-type, non-linear audio / video Montage is a life of monotonous life in prison in Texas - and the suffering of a prisoner, Carter "Doc "McCoy (McQueen). Gutted in words denied having been sentenced to 10 years, McCoy has sent his wife Carol (Ali MacGraw), make a deal with Jack Benyon (Ben Johnson), a corrupt businessman who exercises his power to secure his release on bail. He has been successful, the rule that Doc organize the bank robbery with men personally chosen Benyon: Rudy (Al Lettieri the Godfather) and Frank (Bo Hopkins).

Upon receipt at home with civilians to life outside prison, Doc began his careful planning of the robbery. He does not trust his colleagues shady and potentially unstable, which is contrary to his instructions, or seem disinterested. During the robbery, as expected, plans to run. Frank shoots the guard, when his gun (which is incomprehensible to stay lying next to him during the whole event) and the subsequent flight, the first double victory at the cross, Rudy, Frank, and then you have been injured in an attempt to kill Doc and maintain the same money. Doc and Carol then went to Laughlin, the hotel arranged a hiding place in El Paso, when Rudy forces the veterinarian rural, Harold (Jack Dobson) and his wife, Fran (Sally Struthers), to treat his wounds, and push it to El Paso in a couple of attempts to capture.

The other half is punctuated by some great action sequences, which fits just as well today. McQueen is the most significant commitment fraudster who has stolen loot from the robbery of railway Locker by train. Brilliantly edited, and actually produce a kind of tension, this is a much more content than most other action sequences Peckinpah, but equally effective. Violent shootout at its peak between McQueen and Benyon henchmen are excellent and includes some of the most realistic to use a shotgun, I have seen so far. I do not know the sequence of the most famous film, which ends McQueen and MacGraw trapped in a garbage truck pick up and ride to the dump, was artificial and unnecessary.

I think it was against a role model for McQueen, who is again convincing. Although it is a career criminal and a psycho border-line, we can not help but wish that he and Carol finally escape. Plus it's Steve McQueen. The guy is just cool. To make nice Doc, but he will face against some despicable thugs and Rudy is definitely one. Al Lettieri a lot of fun, but his wicked ridicule, took a little too far in the scenes where he is intimate with Francisco while her husband was tied up and forced to watch. Ali MacGraw performances dish should also be noted. I thought it was terrible, and although his loyalty to Doc is questionable, and one is never sure if her affection for him is all for the show, their chemistry has been challenged by its lack of convincing emotions. The excitement and mistrust underlying rises throughout history is also hampered by clunky dialogue.

The Getaway is dirty - the corrupt businessmen, double-cross, desperate vehicular activities and moist climate - and plenty of Peckinpah trademark visual style ballet and violence (shootings intense and well-edited are soaked in typical use a slow movement). The story unravels at a feverish pace, and even artificial and ultimately pointless, the movie has a lot of style - though largely due to the presence of McQueen.

Short Review: Face/Off (John Woo, 1997)

You do not like Face / Off? John Woo famous 1997 action thriller still holds good today. The abundance of frenetic action sequences are spectacular and the exchange agreement between the FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) and sociopath and notorious terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), has both psychological complexity (especially Archer, who was trapped in a maximum security prison with large identity of Troy with his family at risk) and the surprising sincerity. There are some brilliant one-liner, with Cage and Travolta with manic demented performance that really benefit from the film, are present in Cage (as Castor Troy) is particularly funny. Caring for a good dose of action in style? Face / Off offer. The premise is plausible too ridiculous to you? In Praise of the display with a few beers. This will help.

Mission: Impossible II (Widescreen Edition)DVD

It should have been treated. Directed by John Woo, the man took the severity of the shootings. Screenwriter Robert Towne, who wrote half of the movies that made Jack Nicholson a star, and the protagonist is Thandie Newton, whose face could make a thousand ships do pretty much anything you want. But this "Mission: Impossible", the follow-up that boasted of hops from Australia to Spain and back, is not happy nor hip. It goes through the motions of a multinational action thriller, and although these movements are too blatantly one might expect, the result is more tiring than enjoyable. If the new film has a nucleus, is Tom Cruise, who reprises his role as team leader for spies. Sense of teamwork is, however, dropped out, and the plot, indeed, the whole movie comes a sad tribute to Cruise boldness, and in particular its physical indestructible. The first film was just amazing, this is useless.

-Anthony Lane

Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

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Item Name: Mission - Impossible II (DVD Edition) Studio: Paramount