Hard Boiled
To commemorate a year passing since Viva Video! closed its doors forever the Bryn Mawr Film Institute hosted a 35mm screening of John Woo’s Hard Boiled (1992). The event is… Read more »
To commemorate a year passing since Viva Video! closed its doors forever the Bryn Mawr Film Institute hosted a 35mm screening of John Woo’s Hard Boiled (1992). The event is… Read more »
John Woo’s Bullet In The Head (1990) is his most fully realized portrait of male friendships. The film barrows much of its structure from The Deer Hunter (1978) but with… Read more »
Windtalkers (2002) follows Sgt. Enders (Nicolas Cage) on his mission to protect Navajo code-talker Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) during the taking of Saipan during WWII. Yahzee’s deep spirituality transforms Enders… Read more »
If one hasn’t seen many Heroic Bloodshed films from the eighties and nineties one probably has the impression that these films are low-brow entertainment, but there is more here than… Read more »