Up here in Canada, Wal-Mart carries Trinity's releases of A FORCE OF ONE, THE OCTAGON and CHARLIE CHAN AND THE CURSE OF THE DRAGON QUEEN for around $13 each. Each one has some extra called "How The Movies Changed Hollywood" or some such ridiculous title, plus trailers, I think. Now that I look...
I've listened to Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL track a few times over the years and have found it to be one of the most enlightening tracks I've ever heard, both in terms of Gilliam's philosophy and his craft.
The three French originals weren't much better than you're saying the American version is. They had an interesting concept and, as here, the transforming vehicle of the title, but they were rife with ethnic caricatures - especially the tired use of Asian actors as "cool" villains and/or...
Gee, let me guess, Nihongo-ga wakarimas-ka? Watashi-wa Nihongo-ga wakari-mas. Demo, mada, jozu-ja dimasen. And I never really know when not to use hyphens, so forgive the choppiness.
There's so many Korean filmmakers contributing commentary tracks to their DVDs these days, with so little of what they say being translated for non-Koreans, and so many English-speaking film critics and historians living IN the country who could easily do an informed additional English-language...
Suddenly I'm reminded of a line from her movie (as she's bent over repairing a porch): "Well, don't just stand there, boys, grab a tool and start bangin'!"
WalMart Canada has added some new titles to the $6.88 bin this week:
RUSTLER'S RHAPSODY
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
KISS THE GIRLS
FORMULA 51
and titles from the latest wave of the Fox Martial arts series:
MR. VAMPIRE
IRON-FISTED MONK
Might be others. I didn't really dig too far.
Canadian Wal-Marts have added more Fox martial arts titles to the $6.88 bin. Bought MR. VAMPIRE there last night, but they also had IRON-FISTED MONK. Didn't see any other titles from the latest wave, but other stores might have 'em.
Well, it had to happen. DDDHouse has added Shaw Brothers titles to their weekly cheap sale for $35HK each (about $4.50 US) - nearly two-thirds off the original price. This could be a really good omen. Titles so far: LAND OF MANY PERFUMES CAVE OF THE SILKEN WEB (these are...
I'd love to see it on the big screen too, even though I've bought and watched all three films in the trilogy on DVD; I'm just not holding out a lot of hope unless it gets the "Quentin Tarantino Sez You Must See Infernal Affairs" treatment that HERO needlessly received.
I believe both WING CHUN and TAI-CHI 2 are from the same "Yuen Woo-Ping's Collection." There could be others. TAI CHI 2 was directed by Cheung Yam-yim, the man who gave us both SHAOLIN TEMPLE and KIDS FROM SHAOLIN. Yuen Woo-ping handled the choreography. I just watched SHAOLIN...
I'm not overly concerned about subbing on extras for Korean discs, although it would certainly be nice. As I mentioned over in the "Asian Cinema on DVD" thread in Software, I generally prefer the low-key behind-the-scenes material on Korean discs to much of the same stuff on American discs...
If someone asked me at what point I figured an actual Benny Hill Show cast member might show up in this thread, I'd have guessed somewhere around page 12. Conservatively.
Thanks for the update, and thanks for participating.
Does anyone here know where I can find a complete list of all the Shaw Brothers DVDs released to date? I'm NOT looking for the entire Shaw library, just the films made available so far. My new shipment just came in and it puts me around 110-120 in total, so now I need to find out which ones...
Anyone know if these will include ABC's bumpers? "And now back to the ABC Afterschool Special, The Boy Who Spanked Too Much"" or some such things, or will these just be the raw films themselves?
Just noticed this over at apple.com. It's not a bad trailer, although I think the original Hong Kong trailers were better. The usual hyperbole actually captures the central story quite nicely: Now, they're both out to uncover the traitor among them. They know he's dangerous. They know he's...
I must admit, now that I've seen your complete list, Bill, and having seen the majority of these films on video over the years, that Cowan's collective Midnight Madness programmes feature a higher quantity of movies that I ultimately liked when I finally saw them on video. I didn't start going...
This is a uniquely Canadian affliction, despite the increased number of non-Canadians in attendance at these shows. As a collective, we seem more inclined to roll our eyes, quietly tsk-tsk, sigh through our noses and whisper bad things about the asker of the stupid question to our mates. It...
These are the same people connected to the upcoming WAR OF THE WORLDS film (not the Spielberg version) that purports to adhere closely to H.G. Welles original story. It doesn't take a seasoned mind to figure out why there's virtually no dialogue heard in that trailer. I've seen enough...
I'd be the first to admit a whole schedule of HK Action filcks would be a bit much, but I don't recall Geddes actually filling a schedule with them. It must be said, though, that his love for the form comes from working as the projectionist at the Golden Harvest cinema on Spadina before it...
I'm being totally biased when I say this, because my interest in Asian cinema knows no bounds and borders on psychotic ;), but I tend to think the Midnight Madness schedule has diversified too much for its own good, with the American and European films sometimes just seeming less, well, gonzo...
Saw my measly three films on the weekend. Thought RAHTREE: FLOWER OF THE NIGHT was a blast (as did most of the audience). Excellent mix of screams and laughs that plays far, FAR better in a crowded theatre than it likely will on home video. That first bit where the wrapped body sits up really...
Korean War TAEGUKGI (Korea, 2004). Directed by Kang Je-gyu. Big budget war film that, finally, tells a story from the point of view of the people who suffered the most from it. Sure, it's fiction, but it touches on issues that American movies about that war have never even addressed. I would...
Taking things back to the subject of Johnnie To for a moment, I just noticed www.dddhouse.com has added the excellent FULL TIME KILLER to its weekly cheap sale (as of today, Sept. 16, anyways) for only $25HK. The packaging on this is kinda cool, too, with the images printed directly onto the...
The Chinese triads have branches in Canada. From what I understand, you can break a leg off the spider but it quickly grows back. Look at the assorted bootleg busts that have been made over the years and yet the stuff is ALWAYS available, and that's probably just the bottom end of the food chain...
Thanks for the link. I couldn't get it to work, but a search found it anyways at http://reports.fja.gc.ca/cgi-bin/si...l~~context=full Fascinating reading. The company you keep, eh? Sounds like the government must have had some pretty reliable evidence against them if showing it...
VOLCANO HIGH is one of my all-time Korean favourites. I think Korean fantasy filmmaking, in all its various guises, is poised to become world-renowned, thanks to some very talented genre stylists. The only serious weakness in many of them tends to be scripts (as in NATURAL CITY or R U READY?)...