Sentences with phrase «hark bohm»

The film launched a new wave of Hong Kong filmmaking and you can feel its influence in everything from Bruce Lee's martial arts thrillers of the 1970s to Jackie Chan's Drunken Master films to the Tsui Hark - led new wave of high energy, special effects laden adventures in 1980s Hong Kong, and of course, the Oscar winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee's tribute the magical, colorful genre that King Hu reinvented with this film.

by Bill Chambers Director Tsui Hark stands apart from his Chinese contemporaries by committing to a tone and relative congruity.

Having made a couple of English - language pictures starring a Belgian (the Jean - Claude Van Damme vehicles Double Team and Knock - Off) and been schooled at a Southern Methodist university in Dallas, Hark is formally acquainted with the American mainstream, thankyouverymuch.

Tsui Hark is a formidable visual talent.

In the Hong Kong - set Time and Tide's opening narration, Hark himself paraphrases the first few verses of the Old Testament.

A typically colourful, good - natured and silly romp from director - producer - legend Tsui Hark, this historical - romantic - slapstick comedy takes a...

Tsui Hark, A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon 4.

Tsui Hark, Edward Leung & Tai Foo - ho, A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon 2.

Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark ed.

High Noon (Heiward Mak)-- 43, 2008 Ex (Heiward Mak)-- 9, 2011 The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry)-- 12, 2011 Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (Tsui Hark)-- 31, 2011 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata)-- 3, 2013

Tsui Hark's 1991 film starts with a dragon dance, one of the most elaborate and colourful displays of traditional Chinese culture.

In this script, co-written by Akin and director / actor Hark Bohm (a lawyer by education, and best known for roles in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films), the intention is to focus on violence against immigrants, and on the imperfect and capricious quality of justice under law that has sometimes attended crimes of this nature.

But alas, the corpse - killing hijinks are noticeably marred by some inexcusable hark - backs to archaic game design.

The Second Wave, which includes directors such as Eddie Fong, Stanley Kwan and Clara Law, is often seen as a continuation of the first as many of these directors worked as assistants to First Wave directors such as Tsui Hark, Ann Hui and Patrick Tam (with whom Wong worked and collaborated).

These later scenes hark back to some of the lesser sequences in Sorkin's «Steve Jobs» script.

Hark, Ina Rae.

I do recommend both films, but obviously Tsui Hark isn't for everyone.

There are fine works by Jim Jarmusch, Oliver Stone, Jonathan Demme, Chantal Akerman, Tsui Hark, Errol Morris and Gus Van Sant.

A hallway tap dance, a sofa - bound soft shoe shuffle, a glorious song & dance number... these are all moments within it that hark back, sometimes unexpectedly, to the glorious days of MGM musicals.

Activision has announced that a free downloadable track has hit XBox Live today (and will hit PSN tomorrow) for Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero. «Hark The Herald Angels Sing» by Steve Ouimette is the song that is now available as a free download.Â

Of the small sampling of Hong Kong films I've seen, the ones I've liked best are not usually the pop action blockbusters but some of the so - called art movies, which in some cases have been box - office failures (largely because there is no art - movie market in Hong Kong): Yim Ho's Homecoming (1984), Wong Kar - wai's Days of Being Wild (1990), Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1991), and Yim Ho and Tsui Hark's King of Chess (1991).

Tsui Hark, the producer, eventually took over as director, recasting the female lead, and the film was finally released four years after it began shooting, in a version disowned by Yim (though the film credits list him as the only director).

Other moments also hark back to Butterfly Kiss, such as a sequence in which Sue is viewed through a series of rapid jump cuts.

Ten Best Nineties films I know (in no ranked order): Through the Olive Trees, A Brighter Summer Day (Yang), Chungking Express (Wong), The Blade (Tsui Hark), The Thin Red Line, Heat, Simple Men (Hartley), An Angel at My Table (Campion), A Scene at the Sea (Kitano), The Suspended Step of the Stork (Angelopoulos)

Hark's delirious sense of action staging and editing — along with the unusual blend of styles — make portions of this film quite arresting.

While not made of biological matter like in Videodrome or eXistenZ, Kevin Durand's personalised, almost en - souled sidearm, feels like a subtle hark back to those most Cronenberg of movies.

At over 130 minutes, though, the movie drags quite a bit; like a lot of mad showmen, Hark needs someone to sit on some of his more outlandish instincts.

But Hark is a seminal figure in the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema, and has crafted some of the more fantastical action extravaganzas to come out of Asia over the last decade - plus.

A prequel to the genre mash - up «Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame,» Hark's film is billed on its back cover box as «the Sherlock Holmes of 7th century China,» which is a good if ultimately rather reductive shorthand.

Director Tsui Hark and fight director Sammo Hung provide some great wire - fu action sequences among the convoluted plot that is typical of these kinds of Chinese epic modern films.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

And Hong Kong madman Tsui Hark's Jean - Claude Van Damme / Dennis Rodman buddy movie Double Team is one of the most delightfully strange Hollywood movies in existence; it ends, after all, with Van Damme fighting both Mickey Rourke and a tiger in a Roman coliseum that's full of land mines.

Look deep into the movie listings this January, past the big name awards fodder, the PT Andersons and the Rob Marshalls, the biopics and social problem films, and you'll find, in limited release, the latest picture from one of the most influential and important directors of the past 40 years, Tsui Hark, whose name remains so unknown in the US he's as likely to be identified by his personal name as his family name (for the record: he is Mr. Tsui, not Mr. Hark; pronounced «Choy — Hok»).

And the facility's monochromatic color lighting and minimalist design hark back to the work of visual artist James Turrell, who has been an inspiration for everything from Drake's «Hotline Bling» video to the interior of the alien vessel in Arrival.

Florentine is an action - oriented director; at his best, he does what certain Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark and John Woo movies do, transforming characters into bodies in motion, hurtling at each other through space.

At their best, the movies have been enjoyable ways to pass time, and at their worst, they've been riddled with plot points that hark back to superior films.

Much as Geraldine Chaplin's weirdly anachronistic lead performance as a contemporary character in Rudolph's Remember My Name (1978) evokes Barbara Stanwyck roles in various women - oriented melodramas of the 30s, Watson's gaffes seem to hark back to some of the 50s dumb - blond routines of Marilyn Monroe, Judy Holliday, Jayne Mansfield, and Barbara Nichols.

On the one hand, [modular narrative films] hark back to much earlier innovations of modernist literature and cinema.

The screenplay is co-written by Hark Bohm.

At just 33, writer - director Alex Ross Perry has fashioned beautiful and mysterious relationship dramas that hark back to the heydays of Robert Altman, John Cassavetes, Ingmar Bergman, and Woody Allen.

Screenplay, Chang Chia - lu, Tsui, based on the story by Chen Kuo - fu, Tsui Hark.

My guilty pleasures hark back to 42nd St, when I was in college during the Sixties.

It's disheartening to hear that when Hong Kong cinema is referred to, especially in the responses to Harry Knowles review, that the most predominant names are usually Jackie Chan, John Woo, and Tsui Hark.

That same group has gone into intensely passionate discussions on Sam Fuller, Michael Curtiz, Miyazaki, David Lean, Tsui Hark, Tobe Hooper, James Whale, Jeunet and Caro, Besson, Cocteau and Fellini.

Before ever mentioning Jackie Chan, John Woo, or Tsui Hark in reference to Hong Kong Cinema; check out the work done by Ang Lee, Wong Kar Wai, and Yi - mou Zhang first.

It didn't start just with Tarantino, but with Tsui Hark and John Woo.

Hark!

Written by Akin and lawyer Hark Bohm, the central courtroom scenes draw their tension and conviction from the 2013 Munich trial of Neo-Nazi members of the National Socialist Underground.

Director Fatih Akin and Hark Bohm's screenplay for In the Fade is cleanly divided into three acts.

Film Productions Germany production, in association with Maassar Productions, Pathe, Dorje Film, Corazon International Cast: Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Johannes Krisch, Samia Chancrin, Numan Acar, Ulrich Tukur, Rafael Santana Director: Fatih Akin Screenwriters: Fatih Akin, Hark Bohm Producers: Nurhan Sekerci - Porst, Fatih Akin, Herman Weigel Co-producers: Melita Toscan du Plantier, Marie - Jeanne Pascal, Jerome Seydoux, Sophie Seydoux, Ardavan Safaee, Alberto Fanni, Flaminio Zadra Director of photography: Rainer Klausmann Production designer: Tamo Kunz Costume designer: Katrin Aschendorf Editor: Andrew Bird Music: Joshua Homme Casting director: Monique Akin World sales: The Match Factory Venue: Cannes Film Festival (competition) 105 minutes