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 »
Tag: Tony Leung
Bullet In The Head
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 »
Shang-Chi
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), or simply Shang-Chi, is but another film in Disney’s long line of Marvel Comics movies. As Disney continues to mine its… Read more »
Ashes Of Time
Wong Kar-wai’s adaptation of Jin Yong’s novel The Legend Of The Condor Heroes, Ashes Of Time (1994), is a sort of turning point in the filmmaker’s career. Here his collaboration… Read more »
In The Mood For Love
In The Mood For Love (2001) continues director Wong Kar-wai’s preoccupation with emotions unexpressed and love gone unconsummated. Of all of Wong Kar-wai’s feature films, In The Mood For Love best… Read more »
