Sentences with phrase «flying daggers»

The demo that I listened to during CES was a scene from the movie House of Flying Daggers, where a bean is thrown across a large room and rebounds off a series of drums.

In Part 1 of this blog, we took a look at five films that are great for demonstrating home theater surround systems: Apocalypto, Aviator, House of Flying Daggers, Letters From Iwo Jima, and Master and...

Some scenes of this game look like they've been ripped directly from the likes of «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon» or «The House of Flying Daggers» and got mixed into here.

Closely following each arrow with a superb camera system that isn't dissimilar to views featured in House of Flying Daggers, you can then direct arrows towards your enemies using motion control with the full intention of penetrating some flesh or some very explosive firework barrels.

And when I watched the echo game scene from House of Flying Daggers, I closed my eyes and accurately pinpointed which direction the bean hit as well as the dancer's response via her ribbon - wrapped swords.

The Western world seems to be in the grip of Zhang Yimou hero - worship... ok bad pun, but with the release of Hero (Ying Xiong) and then House of Flying Daggers in short succession, it seems you can't turn anywhere without hearing yet another reviewer raving about his visual style and artistry.

Curse of the Golden Flower (imdb quicktime trailer) Let's see, let's see: Zhang Yimou (aka best Chinese director ever, Raise the Red Lantern, Hero, House of Flying Daggers), Gong Li (aka one of the top Chinese actresses ever, Raise the Red Lantern and many others), Chow Yun - Fat (aka one of the best current Chinese action actors, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), story set in historical China, with full - on Crouching Tiger - style flying martial arts?

Ian McKellen — The Fellowship Of The Ring Daniel Day - Lewis — Gangs Of New York Seu Jorge — City Of God Andy Lau — House Of Flying Daggers Jason Bateman — Dodgeball Mickey Rourke — Sin City Ian McDiarmid — Revenge Of The Sith Jack Nicholson — The Departed

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Not as much action as Hero or House Of Flying Daggers, but the second most Shakespearean film of 2006, after The Departed.

Speaking of Zhang and Zhang, Senses Of Cinema has an interesting, comprehensive and somewhat confusing article on House Of Flying Daggers, Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Directed by legendary auteur Zhang Yimou, incontestably one of the world's greatest living filmmakers, the man's list of classics including cinematic essentials like Raise the Red Lantern, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Ju Dou and To Live, the movie is a visual feast.

(November 13, 2017)-- Hong Kong Superstar Andy Lau (House of Flying Daggers, Internal Affairs) as a charismatic thief is pursued by French icon Jean Reno (Leon: The Professional, The Da Vinci Code, Mission Impossible) as a tenacious detective in the globetrotting caper film THE ADVENTURERS, stealing onto on digital December 5 and on Blu - ray ™... [Read More]

But the conceit of a young woman teaming with her knight in shining armour is complicated in House of Flying Daggers by the fact that she is more than capable of taking care of herself, except, fascinatingly, when the attacks against her are sexualized.

Zhang has directed sophisticated dramas (Ju Dou, Raise High the Red Lantern) and thrilling action pictures (Hero, House of Flying Daggers).

House of Flying Daggers (its title in Chinese the loaded «Ambush from Ten Directions» — essentially an ambush from everywhere) is at its essence an allegory for rape and the Chinese tradition of concubinage that Zhang has already explored to varying degrees in Raise the Red Lantern, Ju Dou, Shanghai Triad, and, of course, Red Sorghum, in which a young woman played by Gong Li (Ziyi's predecessor as Zhang's muse) is saved from rape by a young man with whom she later runs a winery.

Just a few years ago, «House of Flying Daggers» scored a lone cinematography nod.

Let no one say that Zhang doesn't know his way around a camera, the film looks gorgeous, and carries the absurdly vivid kind of color palette fans should recognize immediately from films like House of Flying Daggers.

The director, one of China's most respected visual artists after his stunning work on crossover hit wu xia films like House of Flying Daggers and Hero, is no stranger to over-the-top stylization.

She was OK in House of Flying Daggers, good in Hero and The Banquet.

3:00 am (15th)-- IFC — Hero Jet Li is the titular hero in this Zhang Yimou film, arguably the best of Yimou's period action - on - wires films (though I'm partial to House of Flying Daggers myself).

Matt Damon became the center of controversy over the summer with the debut of the first U.S. trailer for «The Great Wall,» the action - fantasy epic from Legendary Pictures, which was criticized for focusing on the white American star over the film's Chinese talent, including ingénue Jing Tian, boy band breakout Junkai Wang and renowned director Zhang Yimou («House of Flying Daggers»).

I probably won't reach for this Blu - ray in a few years from now over director Yimou Zhang's previous Hero or House of Flying Daggers; but I was pleasantly surprised with how much fun I had with it on the big screen.

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Starring global superstar Matt Damon and directed by one of the most breathtaking visual stylists of our time, Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers), Legendary's The Great Wall tells Read More →

I say, Best Actress and Costume Design (don't forget that Vera Drake won here against The Aviator, Finding Neverland and House of Flying Daggers).

We've been quite interested in Legendary's The Great Wall, a monster movie set in China in the Directed by Zhang Yimou, best known to western audiences for the Chinese films Hero and House of Flying Daggers.

As if the trailer didn't suggest as much in its short run - time, Yimou has an impressive resume that includes the memorable opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and directing the beautiful House of Flying Daggers.

The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)-- 10, 2000 Golden Chicken (Samson Chiu)-- 9, 2002 Golden Chicken 2 (Samson Chiu)-- 12, 2003 House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)-- 14, 2004 Oxhide (Liu Jiayin)-- 3, 2005

A $ 150 million American - Chinese co-production, The Great Wall is directed by Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers) but written by a sextet of Americans including Bourne scribe Tony Gilroy, World War Z author Max Brooks,

His two follow - up films, House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower are as well, but where the former luxuriates in the irrational melodrama of tragic romance and the latter is consumed by the emptiness at the heart of its own baroque decadence, there's a reticence to Hero, a by - product of its episodic structure, narrative instability and potentially repellent politics.

8:00 pm — IFC — Hero Jet Li is the titular hero in this Zhang Yimou film, arguably the best of Yimou's period action - on - wires films (though I'm partial to House of Flying Daggers myself).

Tough to leave out Far from Heaven, the House of Flying Daggers of suburban melodramas.

Best of all, the director is Zhang Yimou, the crown prince of modern Chinese filmmaking whose work ranges from award - winning dramas like «Raise the Red Lantern'to wild kung - fu flicks «Hero» and «House of Flying Daggers».

The Playlist found the first trailer for the film on YouTube, and if you're familiar with Hero, House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower, you won't be too shocked to see plenty of artistic slow - mo, thematic colours, extravagant costumes, and melodramatic acting.

Loved House of Flying Daggers and I'm sure this one will be very good as well... just, as you said Sean, how is this associated with Blood Simple in any way shape or form?

(November 13, 2017)-- Hong Kong Superstar Andy Lau (House of Flying Daggers, Internal Affairs) as a charismatic thief is pursued by French icon Jean Reno (Leon: The Professional, The Da Vinci Code, Mission Impossible) as a tenacious detective in the globetrotting caper film THE ADVENTURERS, stealing onto on digital December 5 and on Blu - ray ™ Combo Pack January 2 from Well Go USA Entertainment.

Would he offer the aerobatic action of his wuxia epics Hero and House of Flying Daggers?

But its best description may be that it allies itself to Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can, Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers, Alexander Payne's Sideways, Michael Mann's Collateral, and Martin Scorsese's The Aviator as works of genuine auteurs that are more perfect encapsulations of leitmotif than they are unique unto themselves.

While House of Flying Daggers is hardly Hero's sequel, it negotiates similar territory, combining romance, lush cinematography and enough martial arts to satisfy even the most zealous fight - enthusiast.

Thus, what Chen sees as a defect in the approach to character taken in House Of Flying Daggers and Hero, their supposed «lifelessness», where «the characters are... not really free agents or people but couture furniture items gliding along Zhang Yimou's pre-assigned tracks.»

The Mother: «Besides Zhang Yimou's double whammy Hero and House of Flying Daggers, there was another important 2004 dual American release: Roger Michell's The Mother and Enduring Love, two films that questioned societal mores.

It's clear he wants us to feel fear and pity for these characters, but no amount of spinning kicks, flying daggers, or moments of slow reflection can make us feel that these characters aren't just a means by which Yimou can teleport us into a time and place of great beauty and honor.

Being the ladies man of the two, the plan is for Jin to phony a break out from the prison that holds Mei, and with their newly formed friendship, he hopes to be led to the secret location of the House of Flying Daggers, but there are dangers along the way, including the emperor's own men, who aren't quite in the know when it comes to the clever scheme.

House of Flying Daggers Year: 2004 Director: Zhang Yimou Country: China Language: Mandarin Zhang Yimou enjoys a certain notoriety in arthouse circles for ravishing dramas like Raise the Red Lantern and To Live, but he burst into the mainstream with Hero, the long - delayed and eagerly awaited martial - arts spectacular.

They suspect that she is a member of the rebel faction opposing the emperor, the elusive House of Flying Daggers, and so they devise a plan to find out their whereabouts, as well as who is the leader of this band of outlaws.

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Under extras, find trailers for Guess Who, Bewitched, Spanglish, Hitch, House of Flying Daggers, Being Julia, A Love Song for Bobby Long, and Closer (the first three of which cue up on start - up), plus the video for Damien Rice's interminable but somewhat hypnotic «The Blower's Daughter.»

Co-directed by Zhao Xiaoding, Oscar - nominated cinematographer of House of Flying Daggers, and Anthony LaMolinara, Oscar winner for his visual effects on Spider - Man 2, Once Upon a Time involves a star - crossed romance between a 140,000 - year - old goddess and a heavenly prince, 70,000 years her junior, over the course of several realms and lifetimes.

It'll be directed by Zhang Yimou (House of Flying Daggers, The Flowers of War, Hero) with a script from World War Z writer Max Brooks and Matt Damon is in final negotiations to take the lead role.