Skip It Before the wide adoption of DVD and Blu-Ray, it seemed like there was a sense that other countries were making much better movies than America. A Run Lola Run here, an Oldboy there, and suddenly foreign film became a movie-geek magnet
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Peter Chan in 2011, Dragon (retitled for release in North America by the Weinsteins for some reason, the original title was Wu-Xia ) stars Donnie Yen as a man named Liu Jin-xi. He’s lived in the same small town for about ten years now, having married a local single mother named Ayu (Tang Wei) and set up shop in town making paper. Together he and his wife are …
Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the current Blu-ray edition under review. To a socially conscious filmmaker like Hector Babenco (an Argentine-born Brazilian filmmaker who, before he took Hollywood and Oscar with 1985’s Kiss of the Spider Woman , made more or less directly activist narrative features in Brazil), it must have seemed …