Directed by Stephen Fung Produced by Wang Zhongjun Written by Kuo-fu Chen Released by Well Go USA Release Mandarin with English subtitles China. 100 min. Not rated With Jayden Yuan, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Angelababy, Eddie Peng Yu-Yen, Feng Shaofeng, Peter Stormare & Daniel Wu You might recall a little crazy movie called Tai Chi […]
Written & Directed by Eran Creevy Produced by Rory Aitken & Ben Pugh Released by IFC Films UK. 99 min. Not rated With James McAvoy, Mark Strong, Andrea Riseborough, Peter Mullan, David Morrissey, Jason Flemyng & Ruth Sheen Welcome to the Punch is British director Eran Creevy’s follow up to his award-winning debut Shifty (2008), about […]
Film Comment Selects, now in its 13th edition, is a typically eclectic and wide-ranging selection of films chosen by the editors of Film Comment, the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s magazine. Think of it as the rambunctious, unruly younger sibling of the New York Film Festival. With a program encompassing challenging art-house films, genre exercises, […]
Directed by Stephen Fung Produced by Zhang Dajun, Daniel Wu & Fung Written by Chen Hsiao Tse, Zhang Jialu & Chen Kuo-fu Released by Variance Films/Well Go USA Mandarin with English subtitles China. 94 min. Rated PG-13 With Jayden Yuan, Angelababy, Eddie Peng, Tony Leung Ka-fai & Shu Qi In Tai Chi Zero, the “Zero” […]
Written & Directed by Michael J. Bassett, based on the character created by Robert E. Howard Produced by Paul Berrow, Samuel Hadida & Kevan Van Thompson Released by Radius/TWC France/Czech Republic/UK. 104 min. Rated R With James Purefoy, Max von Sydow, Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Patrick Hurd-Wood, Alice Krige, Jason Flemyng & Lucas Stone Solomon […]
Directed by Wuershan Produced by Chen KuoFu Screenplay by Ran Ping, Ran JiaNan Produced by Yang HongTao, Wang Ruojun, Wang ZhongJun, Guo L Released by Well Go USA Mandarin with English subtitles China. 133 min. Not rated With Xun Zhou, Kun Chen, Wei Zhao & Mini Yang Wuershan’s Painted Skin: The Resurrection, a loose sequel […]
Directed by Takashi Miike Produced by Toshiaki Nakazawa & Jeremy Thomas Written by Kikumi Yamagishi, based on a story by Yasuhiko Takiguchi, “Ibun Ronin Ki” Released by Tribeca Film Japanese with English subtitles Japan/UK. 126 min. Not rated With Ebizo Ichikawa, Eita, Hikari Mitsushima, Naoto Takenaka & Munetaka Aoki I try not to be as […]
Written & Directed by Kenji Fukasaku, based on the novel by Koushun Takami Produced by Fukasaku, Kenta Fukasaku, Kimio Kataoka, Chie Kobayashi, Toshio Nabeshima & Masumi Okada Released by Anchor Bay Japan. 114 min. Not rated With Takeshi Kitano, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Chiaki Kuriyama, Taro Yamamoto & Sosuke Takaoka Finally on the big screen, Kenji […]
Directed by Frédéric Jardin Produced by Marco Cherqui & Lauranne Bourrachot Written by Jadrin, Nicolas Saada & Olivier Douyère Released by Tribeca Film, available on Tribeca on Demand France/Belgium/Luxembourg. 108 min. Not rated With Tomer Sisley, Serge Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier, Joey Starr, Lizzie Brocheré, Laurent Stocker & Birol Ünel Frédéric Jardin’s slickly shot and edited […]