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.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
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.
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)
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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-Anthony Lane
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
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Item Name: Mission - Impossible II (DVD Edition) Studio: Paramount
The Killer (1990)
Rouse 1989 This is apocalyptic pulp - the bloodiest, showiest, most shamelessly specimen of sentimental melodrama of gangsters in Hong Kong. A torch singer named Jennie (Sally Yeh) is accidentally blinded during a murder in a nightclub, and Chow Yun-Fat sad-eyed Jeff, a self-lacerating assassin, drawing from his retirement to make one last - rub a gangster high for large male - so he can pay for corneal transplantation of the singer. But Jeff pauses to transport an injured child to the hospital during this last trip, and as such a cop finally gets a good look at him: "He was seen on the job," a sneer saturnine Mr. Big "and I want it wasted. "Armies of thugs converge on the holy killer. Some of writer-director John Woo flourishes are kitsch classics (doves flying in a Romanesque church), while the action sequences are delighted." Life is cheap, "a sign Opin.
"It takes a single bullet," but in this case, we really want a dozen spewing bullet hits to kill anyone, as soulful triads in mirror shades and duster overcoats blaze away from high-tech weapons. (My favorite trick with implications greedy enemy, pulls him to embrace the waltz, and pumped several slugs into his duodenum.), Danny Lee, Chow CoStar City on Fire, is a strong, young officer who is fixed on the killer's contradictory personality.
"It takes a single bullet," but in this case, we really want a dozen spewing bullet hits to kill anyone, as soulful triads in mirror shades and duster overcoats blaze away from high-tech weapons. (My favorite trick with implications greedy enemy, pulls him to embrace the waltz, and pumped several slugs into his duodenum.), Danny Lee, Chow CoStar City on Fire, is a strong, young officer who is fixed on the killer's contradictory personality.
John Woo Biography
John Woo (Director / Producer) began his illustrious career as a filmmaker in Hong Kong, where he spent more than two decades at the center of a thriving film industry, directing nearly 30 films. He was best known as a comedy specialist until mid-1980 when it created a romantic drama series inspired by gangsters that broke box office records.
Born in Guangzhou, China, in 1946, Woo moved to Hong Kong with her family when she was four. He studied at the University Matteo Ricci, and at 19, began making experimental films. Instead of film school, Woo sought entry-level positions in the burgeoning film industry of Hong Kong.
In 1971 he began working as assistant director for Shaw Brothers. Only two years later, he made a debut with the "Young Dragons". It 'was then signed an exclusive contract with Golden Harvest. The other two successful martial arts films followed, "the Dragon Tamers," and the "Hand of Death", the latter with the action superstar Jackie Chan in his first major role.
Woo found success as a film of Cantonese opera, "Princess Chang Ping" After becoming a major force in Asian cinema with a series of eight comedies such as "Money Crazy" and "from riches to rags."
Woo left Golden Harvest in 1983 and joined a new company, Cinema City, where he directed the romantic gangster film "A Better Tomorrow" with Chow Yun-Fat and Leslie Cheung. Woo lush thrillers with Chow - which also includes an excellent choreography, the character of the action film "The Killer" and Hong Kong last Woo-produced the film, "Hard Boiled" - won enthusiastic fans in the audience and the world of filmmakers. Woo also directed "shot in the head", set in wartime Vietnam, action comedy caper "Once a Thief" and "A Better Tomorrow II."
Woo made his debut in American cinema with "Hard Target" with Jean-Claude Van Damme. In 1994 he formed WCG Entertainment with his producing partner, Terence Chang. Under this banner, Woo directed "Broken Arrow" with John Travolta and Christian Slater and "Face / Off" with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. The latter was a huge
Born in Guangzhou, China, in 1946, Woo moved to Hong Kong with her family when she was four. He studied at the University Matteo Ricci, and at 19, began making experimental films. Instead of film school, Woo sought entry-level positions in the burgeoning film industry of Hong Kong.
In 1971 he began working as assistant director for Shaw Brothers. Only two years later, he made a debut with the "Young Dragons". It 'was then signed an exclusive contract with Golden Harvest. The other two successful martial arts films followed, "the Dragon Tamers," and the "Hand of Death", the latter with the action superstar Jackie Chan in his first major role.
Woo found success as a film of Cantonese opera, "Princess Chang Ping" After becoming a major force in Asian cinema with a series of eight comedies such as "Money Crazy" and "from riches to rags."
Woo left Golden Harvest in 1983 and joined a new company, Cinema City, where he directed the romantic gangster film "A Better Tomorrow" with Chow Yun-Fat and Leslie Cheung. Woo lush thrillers with Chow - which also includes an excellent choreography, the character of the action film "The Killer" and Hong Kong last Woo-produced the film, "Hard Boiled" - won enthusiastic fans in the audience and the world of filmmakers. Woo also directed "shot in the head", set in wartime Vietnam, action comedy caper "Once a Thief" and "A Better Tomorrow II."
Woo made his debut in American cinema with "Hard Target" with Jean-Claude Van Damme. In 1994 he formed WCG Entertainment with his producing partner, Terence Chang. Under this banner, Woo directed "Broken Arrow" with John Travolta and Christian Slater and "Face / Off" with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. The latter was a huge
Ten Thousand Bullets: The Journey of John Woo Film [Paperback]
I hoped that this book, as I am a big fan of Woo's films. When I received my copy, and rolling, I was disappointed. Listened to most of the quotes used (99% of them) were taken from the articles I - and irreducible Woo fans - we've already seen on the web. Of course not really provide any new information whatsoever. Not even include images and the "coverage" of life before 1986 better tomorrow Woo film is almost nonexistent. Heard slapped together press articles and called it a "book". A book about John Woo is to be written by a credible source that really spoke to people who write.
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