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Bookmark or Share- THE ART THAT INSPIRED THEM IN 2000 - ArtforumThe Mission marks a new high for the enterprising Hong Kong director Johnnie To, who once again pumps fresh life into the noir thriller. Running Kitano and Melville through a Hong Kong blender, The Mission is a triumph of abstract style, dark humor, and daringly fractured plotting.
- BETWEEN YOU AND ME - ArtforumBill Gunn, Personal Problems, 1980, U-Matic video, color, sound, 164 minutes. Raymon (Samuel L. Waymon). The piece began its life as an improvised radio program conceived by Reed, the writer, radio personality, and man-about-town Steve Cannon, and the stage actor Walter Cotton, as a quotidian chamber drama focused on the daily squabbles that mark the lives of a middle-class black family in New ...
- TOO TO - ArtforumMarch 25, 2016 5:35 pm. Johnnie To, Office 3D, 2015, color, sound, 119 minutes. A 3-D MUSICAL BY JOHNNIE TO, Hong Kong master of balletic gun battles to the death: Who could ask for anything more? To’s Office (2015) is certainly the most kinetically entertaining, ingeniously staged spectacle in town, and the splendid projection at the new ...
- LOUDER THAN WORDS: THE FILMS OF JOHNNIE TO - ArtforumJohnnie To can tell a story crisply, sustain a mood, stage galvanizing displays of violence, and evoke a critical distance on his characters while still endowing them with heroic stature. Add to this a pictorial intelligence without peer in today’s popular filmmaking, and you have a director who could lead Hong Kong cinema to a new ...
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