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What Tony Leung Chiu-wai learned about acting from directors including John Woo, Ang Lee and Wong Kar-wai, such as why it is ‘like tai chi’
10 Feb 2024 20:19 GMT
… one of the breakthroughs.
The film garnered much attention abroad, … the love scenes in this movie are very powerful and … 2001.
4. John Woo
Leung has appeared in three films for John Woo Yu-sum … on the epic period drama Red Cliff. Playing a military adviser, …
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John Woo and Chow Yun-fat: cinema’s most influential director/actor partnership
21 Feb 2024 23:29 GMT
… case can be stated for John Woo and Chow Yun-fat … their legendary 16-film stint inspired innumerable filmmakers and countless thinly- … s two-part historical epic Red Cliff, but he was set to … Today, the country’s biggest movies can often carry Hollywood-level …
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Five movies that prove John Woo is an underrated master
28 Dec 2023 17:43 GMT
… strings to the bow of John Woo than balletic, bullet-riddled … though, with the following five films showcasing that, if anything, Woo … comedy.
Red Cliff (2008)
It takes a special kind of movie to … with his filmography, but in the case of Red Cliff, it proved …
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Best John Woo Movies, Ranked
06 Dec 2023 18:18 GMT
… Wave film movement. Although his filmography consists of movies categorized … 20, 2009
Director John Woo
Cast Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang
Runtime 2 Hours 22 … According to Woo, the Red Cliff films contain fifty percent historical …
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John Woo says working with Chow Yun-fat again would take the right project
09 Dec 2023 16:08 GMT
… Asian cinema history, that of John Woo and Chow Yun-fat, may … only ever got five movies directed by John Woo and starring Chow Yun … epic 2008-2009 two-parter Red Cliff. Reasons for his departure – … be too late for another movie with John Woo and Chow Yun-fat …
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How Joel Kinnaman Scared Legendary Action Director John Woo on Silent Night Set
30 Nov 2023 20:10 GMT
… scared the pants out of John Woo on the set of Silent … producer Charles Roven talks about John Woo's upcoming female-led … was really fun on this film. I got to really do … two-part war movie Red Cliff and the Netflix action movie Manhunt. Woo was …
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Why John Woo Took a 20-Year Break From Hollywood
01 Dec 2023 15:04 GMT
… , the scripts stopped coming. And John Woo, one of the finest directors … acclaimed two-part war epic Red Cliff, about the fall of the … him during the entire filming of that movie that just shot his …
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Action icon John Woo on why he loves L.A. and what brought him back to Hollywood
30 Nov 2023 18:28 GMT
… ways films could be told. “It made me think a movie could … so much joy and hope. — John Woo, on his childhood in Hong … the two-part $80-million “Red Cliff,” both a longtime dream project … make movies, more than a half-century in? Woo smiles. Filmmaking, he …
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Box Office Predictions: Beyoncé, John Woo & Godzilla fight for box office supremacy
30 Nov 2023 17:27 GMT
… second concert film with Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé while John Woo and Godzilla … . John Woo returns to American screens for the first time since 2003’s Paycheck, a film … Boiled and Red Cliff: Parts 1&2. The closest comp for this movie would be …
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‘Silent Night’: Go Inside the Mind of Action Cinema Master John Woo
30 Nov 2023 09:59 GMT
… , he spearheaded the historical epics Red Cliff and The Crossing before dipping … 2017 thriller that reminded international moviegoers that few have ever been … emotional music.
John Woo attends at the 74th Venice Film Festival in 2017 …