Sentences with phrase «array of action figures»

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Along the way Kwan introduces a fascinating array of relatively unknown figures (I'm especially intrigued by Maxu Weibang, a «uniquely perverse» horror specialist who worked in the Shanghai studios in the 30s) and also provides absorbing commentary by and about, among others, Hong Kong action director Chang Cheh and his disciple John Woo; Hong Kong directors Wong Kar - wai and Allen Fong; Taiwanese directors Hou Hsiao - hsien, Edward Yang, Ang Lee, and Tsai Ming - liang (most of them speaking about their fathers or children and how these relationships inflect their films); older mainland directors such as Xie Jin; and actor Leslie Cheung (critiquing some of his own pictures).

Tall shelving units near the entry are piled with a motley array of classic toys and action figures, from Transformers to old Fisher - Price favorites — overflow, Hancock explains, from the more selective collection he keeps in a «museum» at his house.

A banal, if obsessive, collection at a glance — «Scarface» movie posters, «Scarface» action figures, «Scarface» key chains, «Scarface» tennis shoes — the array takes on a different meaning when you learn, as is noted in the press release, that it belongs to a childhood friend of Ybarra's who was himself imprisoned for dealing drugs and who looked to the Al Pacino's character as a hero.