Chow Yun-fat’s bullet ballet is reloaded and ready to fire again on the Croisette. In the film, a hard-boiled cop (Chow) who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers, goes on a mission to ...
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Nearly everything in this world eventually ends, but Hard Boiled is one thing that never does. John Woo's 1992 classic returned to theaters in January as part of a larger retrospective celebrating the ...
Dive into interviews about the making of classics such like The Matrix, John Wick—or simply listen to Quentin Tarantino speak for five minutes, and you'll hear mention of one name as an influence: ...
In 1996, John Woo had his first hit in Hollywood with the action movie Broken Arrow, starring John Travolta and Christian Slater.
We take it for granted today, but John Woo has one of the most recognizable visual styles of any living filmmaker. Back in the mid-1980s, what started in Hong Kong reverberated around the world, as ...
Chow Yun-fat’s bullet ballet is reloaded and ready to fire again on the Croisette. As John Woo’s landmark 1992 action spectacle “Hard Boiled” prepares for its spotlight screening at this year’s Cannes ...