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March 2022 Arrow Video: You'll Buy These For A Dollar! ROBOCOP 4K UHD Leads Impressive Release Lineup
Arrow Video goes from strength to strength next March with long-requested UHD upgrades and some several other amazing offerings in yet another stunning lineup announcement. Paul Verhoeven's Robocop makes its 4K UHD debut across the US/UK/CA with this new limited...
Now Streaming: RAINING IN THE MOUNTAIN, Intrigue, Drama, Action
Directed by King Hu, the late 70s drama ('Kong shan ling yu') features royal intrigue, Buddhist philosophy, and beautiful action; now streaming on The Criterion Channel.
Blu-ray Review: King Hu Makes Sword-Sharp Wuxia in DRAGON INN
Many of us approach our pop culture backwards, in a phenomenon we might well call the Simpsons effect: pop culture recycles and references older pop culture faster than we can fill in our experiences of the originals. (If you, like...
Criterion in July 2018: DRAGON INN and A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, Plus Sex, Baseball, Hollywood
Home video fans may want to start looking for second jobs for the summer (or winter, if you're in the Southern Hemisphere), because the Criterion Collection is teasing a wealth of goodies in July. The first two that grabbed my...
HOUSE, LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN, BAREFOOT CONTESSA and More Join Eureka in Feb/March
Eureka! Entertainment has been dropping hints about the rest of its Q1 2018 slate for a while now, but today the British label confirmed the street dates for a host of exciting new releases for their beloved Masters of Cinema...
TAG, RE:BORN, LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN and More Coming Soon from Eureka Entertainment
British distributor Eureka! Entertainment has announced their latest slew of acquisitions and releases, which proves a typically eclectic mix of classic and contemporary cinema. New 4K restorations of James Whale’s horror classic The Old Dark House and Philippe de...
Blu-ray Review: A TOUCH OF ZEN Comes to the Criterion Collection
Halfway through a year already crammed full of impressive releases (with no sign of slowing down... Dekalog for September!), The Criterion Collection has also taken advantage of the recent 4K remaster of King Hu's seminal A Touch of Zen, adding...
Criterion In July: From THE IN-LAWS To A TOUCH OF ZEN And More
Ah, Criterion! I love it when the company expands the parameters of what many people consider to be "classic cinema" and anoints the likes of The In-Laws, the 1979 comedy that remains a personal favorite. It may be very broad...
Learning From The Masters Of Cinema: King Hu's A TOUCH OF ZEN
Heralded as possibly the greatest martial arts film ever made, King Hu's A Touch Of Zen stands apart from most other films in the wuxia genre. For one thing it runs over three hours long, a rarity among its peers...
Learning From The Masters Of Cinema: King Hu's DRAGON INN
Considered by many to be the architect of wuxia cinema, King Hu was to martial arts was John Ford was to the western. Beginning with his 1966 Shaw Brothers adventure Come Drink With Me, Hu took a pulp genre associated...
Ninjas, Cons And A Touch Of Zen: Eureka's January Line-Up Demands All Your Cash
Eureka! Entertainment have announced a killer line-up of titles for January that should have cinephiles the world over doing dextrous backflips for joy.Two new titles will be joining the Masters of Cinema series in January, both of which are absolute...
Watch A Clip From King Hu's DRAGON INN, Coming Soon From Masters Of Cinema
An all-time classic martial arts masterpiece, King Hu's 1967 adventure Dragon Inn was hard to come by in an English-friendly version for many years. Well, not any more. Last year the film was released in a stunning new 4K restoration,...
NYC Happenings: "All Hail The King: The Films of King Hu" Pays Tribute To The Master Martial Arts Film Director
Not only martial arts fans, but cinephiles in general are in for a rare treat this summer when the retrospective "All Hail The King: The Films of King Hu" arrives at BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn from June 6 through...
Hey, Toronto! Win Tickets To See King Hu's A TOUCH OF ZEN On The Big Screen!
The ScreenAnarchy presented Swordsmen, Gangsters And Ghosts retrospective at the TIFF Bell Lightbox heads to Taiwan on Saturday for a screening of King Hu's A Touch Of Zen, project in 35mm from a rare archival print! See this classic as...
ScreenAnarchy Presents Swordsmen, Gangsters And Ghosts! Check Out The Screening Series Details, Amazing Poster Art And Buy Tickets Now!
Hey, you! Do you want to watch Police Story with Jackie Chan? Literally, I mean. Do you want to watch Police Story with Jackie Chan? How about Election with Johnnie To? The TIFF Bell Lightbox is about to kick off...
