A fine DVD from Tartan (for once!). Let's face it: over the last few years, Tartan have put out a lot of shabby, low-contrast, single-layer DVDs of important foreign films, so it's a relief ...
This 1993 international hit by Ang Lee is a funny and poignant story of a gay, Taiwanese-American man who goes to some lengths to fool his visiting family that he's actually straight. The re...
Widely acknowledged as the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Ringo Lam's terse gangland melodrama City On Fire shows this idiosyncratic action movie director at his darkest...
The panorama of 20th-century Chinese history swirls past two men, celebrated actors with their own decidedly specialised view of things. We first observe their lives as children at the Pekin...
Zhang Yimou, the celebrated "fifth generation" filmmaker from China, trained as a cinematographer before he turned to directing, and it shows in every colour-drenched, exquisitely ...
Wong Kar-Wai followed up his highly successful directional debut, the brooding and slick As Tears Go By, with this remarkable study of rootless affections and calculated cruelties played out...
Just Skip the Middle Part. Get the movie, watch the first part until he escapes from the natives, then FAST FORWARD through the entire
middle, DO NOT BOTHER to watch it, it is totally irrel...
Enthralling, Enthralling, Enthralling. This film opens up modern-day China to a Western audience with the charm and subtlety rarely found in Hollywood filmmaking. At times, the mixture of r...
Great DVD except for the audio mix. Great film and DVD, except for the 5.1 audio mix (both Cantonese and English), if you watch the DVD with headphones music comes from the right, and dialog...
Chungking Express tells two stories loosely connected by a Hong Kong snack bar. In one, a cop who's been recently dumped by his girlfriend becomes obsessed with the expiry dates on cans of p...
