Sentences with phrase «anything modern cinema»
The cumulative emotional effect is devastating: the final scenes here are as angry, as memorable, as overwhelming as anything modern cinema has to offer.
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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.
There is no reason to expect anything else from Kaufman, who is one of the most creative storytellers in modern cinema.
Though he is one of modern cinema's fastest talkers, it's not because he's in a hurry to tell us anything.
Nor can you mistake this study of choppy romance for anything but the work of one of modern cinema's great risk - takers.