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Siskoid's Blog of Geekery (Free subscription) | yesterday
Buys The theme of this week's buys is people fighting the supernatural on tv. I got the Sarah Jane Adventures Series 2 and for really, really cheap, all seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I've probably watched less than a season of Buffy over the years, but I've never disliked it, and recent Whedon discoveries like Firefly and Dr. Horrible made me jump at the chance of getting all seven seasons essentially...
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Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Slo-mo action maestro John Woo marches back onto the big screen with this impressively choreographed saga set in 2nd-century China. The most costly production in Chinese cinema's history, Woo's epic details the art of war between a bellicose Han prime minister and a coalition of rebels — one that culminates in the Battle of the Red Cliffs. Among the short-handed, but smarter rebel forces are...
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Oh Beautiful girls (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
English Name : Stefanie Sun Official Name : SNG EE TZE Languages : English, Mandarin, Chaozhou language, Taiwanese, Cantonese Nationality : Singapore Date of Birth : 1978.07.23 Place of Birth : Chaozhou, Guangdong, China Zodiac Year : Horse Zodiac : Cancer Blood Type : AB Height : 162cm Weight : 42kg Education : Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University marketing graduate Family : Grandma,...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
This glossy, soapy tale will inevitably trigger fond memories of the once controversial 1992 film The Lover, says Peter Bradshaw This glossy, soapy tale will inevitably trigger fond memories of the once controversial 1992 film The Lover, starring Jane March and Tony Leung: a teenage girl has an affair with a worldly older man in 1920s French Indo-China. That was based on a Marguerite Duras novel -...
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Living in Cinema (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Please enjoy a few minutes of Tony Leung kicking ass in John Woo's supremely entertaining historical action epic RED CLIFF
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Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
John Woo was asked to help the struggling Chinese film industry and he responded by returning to China to make his next film with Chinese cast and crew. The result is Red Cliff, opening in New York and select areas this weekend, a historical war epic shot and mounted on a grand scale. Set in 208 A.D. the film tells the story of the legendary Battle of the Red Cliffs, in which two relatively small kingdoms,...
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Twitch (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
With John Woo's epic Red Cliff starting its theatrical run yesterday the fine people at Magnet Releasing have released an extended battle clip from the film that demonstrates why aim is important if you're going to go shooting arrows at Tony Leung. Check it out below!
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Smartcine.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
RED CLIFF November 18, 2009 Legendary action-cinema master John Woo and international superstar Tony Leung reunite for [...]
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ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Financed by the state-owned China Film Group Corporation to the tune of $80 million, John Woo’s Red Cliff is the latest “most expensive Chinese film ever made,” following quickly upon such prior contenders as Curse of the Golden Flower and Hero. Woo’s film is of course a massive-scale martial arts epic like its spendy predecessors, both of which were directed by Zhang Yimou....
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ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
By the early '90s, director John Woo had firmly established himself as one of the top directors in Hong Kong before coming to Hollywood and doing the same with a number of action blockbusters. In the back of his mind, he had wanted to make a movie based on the legendary 208 AD Battle of Red Cliff in which an alliance between two Southern Chinese warlords organized by the warrior Zhou Yu (Tony Leung)...
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Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Today's Cinematic Birthdays 11/13 1312 Edward III (of Windsor), not the gay one who gets more cinematic treatment (including Derek Jarman's fascinating take ), but his son. This is the one Shakespeare wrote a play about and the one who Mel Gibson implied to be the bastard son of Braveheart William Wallace, thereby giving the finger to history unless Wallace's sperm could survive years past his death....
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Watch Free TV Online (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
After directing stylish action films such as THE KILLERS and FACE-OFF, director John Woo turns to Chinese history for inspiration with RED CLIFF. The Han Dynasty is facing its death in third century China, and the emperor raises a million-man army against two kingdoms that are hopelessly outmatched. This war film stars Tony Leung, the beloved actor best known for LUST, CAUTION and IN THE MOOD FOR...
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Things Fall Apart (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
“ Chungking Express ” is the second film on the list by Wong Kar-wai . It garnered some international attention as an Asian “ Pulp Fiction ” (although has no thematic or story similarities other than the multiple stories approach), somewhat exacerbated by its similar release date and the fact Quentin Tarantino has been both a very vocal admirer of the movie and that his distribution...
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