Sentences with phrase «wuxia directors»
For his new video installation in Tank Shanghai Project Space, Saunders returns to his interest in the lyrical vocabulary of movement and camera in wuxia directors like King Hu, placed into relationship to painting and installed dynamically throughout the exhibition space.
http://qiaocollection.com/ Not exact matches
King Hu rose to prominence in the 1960s and»70s as a superb director of wuxia films («A Touch of Zen»), a popular Chinese action genre of swords, sorcery and chivalrous heroes.
This year's Journey Gala is Hou Hsiao - Hsien's breathtakingly elegant and mesmerizing first foray into wuxia (martial arts), THE ASSASSIN, which won him the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
I am perhaps being overly critical, but there is a polish that directors like Zhang Yimou and Ang Lee have given to the wuxia genre.
When mainland directors started to tackle the genre, though, it was more in the direction of sumptuous historical fantasies designed for international audiences (such as Zhang Yimou's Ying xiong [Hero, 2002]-RRB- than in the redefinition of the essence of wuxia.
Shot entirely in sequence over a scant twenty - three days ---- during a hiatus in the middle of Wong's wuxia epic, years in the making, Ashes of Time ---- the director wanted to fill this gap by making a quickie movie to restore his creative flow.
To say that the films of Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao Hsien are an acquired taste is something of an understatement, but the director of A City of Sadness, Millennium Mambo and Café Lumière achieved something of a mainstream breakthrough this year with his immaculate wuxia drama The Assassin.
Acclaimed director Zhang Yimou's influential wuxia is period martial arts on the immense scale of an Akira Kurosawa epic.
As the legend of Wong Kar - wai goes, the movie that broke the Hong Kong director internationally, 1994's Chungking Express, was an improvisational lark, a way to blow off steam after the grueling desert shoot of his delirious wuxia epic Ashes of Time.
A generic oddity in his oeuvre, Ashes of Time was the director's only attempt to date at a wuxia picture.
To celebrate the release of The Assassin, a stunning new take on wuxia films by renown director Hou Hsiao - Hsien, we are offering you the chance to win East Asian cinema prize bundles.