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Trivia: After Ringo Lam left the project, Cess Silvera was brought in to direct, but was fired after two weeks of filming in Cape Town, South Africa. more (us.imdb.com/title/tt0367478/)
Critics were mixed on the movie noting that as a Ringo Lam film it was a disappointment when compared to his earlier work,while as a Van Damme feature it was better than average." (kotaku.com....n-hands-on)
Two scenes and a plot point were taken from Hong Kong director Ringo Lam 's movie Lung fu fong wan (1987), which stars Yun-Fat Chow and Danny Lee . Quentin Tarantino says it is one of his favorite films. (us.imdb.com....236/trivia)
In Cannes you often get the sense that everyone else is doing something that you're not. God forbid you should choose badly. So this morning I skipped the Jerry Seinfeld Bee Movie stunt at the Carlton Dade Hayes got to see him fly on a cable from the top of the hotel to the Carlton Beach in a bee suit; apparently he likes bungee jumping) to see Triangle, a Hong Kong action flick directed by not one but three directors: Tsui Hark , Ringo Lam and Johnny To . How could I resist? (weblogs.variety.com....d/2007/05/)
Continuing the tradition of successful Hong Kong directors going toHollywood only to end up directing Jean-Claude Van Damme movies comesTsui Hark with 'Double Team '. John Woo must have gotten lucky when hewent to Hollywood: Ringo Lam is still making Van Damme movies, and TsuiHark went back to Hong Kong after this and 'Knock Off '. I have nothingagainst Van Damme, but he seems to be some sort of trial-by-fire forany Hong Kong director with ambitions of making action films inHollywood: If a director succeeds, he go on to Dolph Lundgren and thenmainstream Hollywood action (John Woo ), otherwise the director is facedwith sticking with Van Damme movies or going back to Hong Kong. (us.imdb.com/title/tt0119013/)
The Adventurers (1995) was a big budgeted film (for Ringo Lam ) thatspans across three countries. The film begins in Thailand and goes tothe United States and Hong Kong. It's also a tale of revenge , a deeprooted one that lasts well over two decades. A young child is the onlysurvivor of a family massacre. His uncle (David Chiang ) raises the boyuntil adulthood (Andy Lau ). For many years he has been waiting for theright moment to avenge his family's honor. The kid flies to the UnitedStates where he finds his foe. He's strangely attracted to his wife(Rosamund Kwan ) and uses her to get back at her sleazy husband. Butfate plays a cruel trick upon him because he's also attracted to herdaughter. Will she get into his way on his path of vengeance? (us.imdb.com/title/tt0112772/)
A nice high gloss action vehicle for Hong Kong pop star Andy Lau , hecommanded a high price for his role (one and a half million U.S.D.).It's a hefty sum but it's worth it because he actually acts pretty wellin this picture. Ringo Lam has worked miracles with a lot of difficultactors (Jean Claude Van Damme ). Instead of mugging and goofing off infront of the camera, Andy shows emotions and depth into his role. Theaction is well choreographed and the cinematography is top notched. (us.imdb.com/title/tt0112772/)
Lau Ching Wan turns in an powerful performance as a tough cop who goesover the line in pursuit of his quarry and alter ego, playedmasterfully by Francis Ng. The film transforms from a formulacompetition between cop and robber midway through the film, to agripping portrait of two men who must live with the life -and-deathdecisions that they make in their line of work. Who would have thoughtthat such a shoot-em-up movie would address such deep issues, and do itso successfully? The director, Ringo Lam , is quite versatile, havingalso directed the excellent Jackie Chan action comedy Twin Dragons , as well as star vehicles for Jean Claude Van Damme and Shu Qi. (us.imdb.com/title/tt0134664/)
Following the incredible critical and popular success of Quentin Tarantino in the mid-1990's, it was rumored that Reservoir Dogs was actually an uncredited remake (i.e. a rip-off of Ringo Lam 's Hong Kong actioner Lung fu fong wan . The rumor was fueled by Who Do You Think You&re Fooling? , a short film by Mike White that spliced together clips of Reservoir Dogs and Lung fu fong wan to reveal their similarities. And there are clear similarities. Both films deal with a robbery, and feature a warehouse rendez-vous spot, a climactic Mexican stand-off, and the relationship between a veteran thief and an undercover cop , but Lung fu fong wan deals mostly with events leading to the robbery, while Reservoir Dogs is famously about the aftermath of an unseen heist gone wrong. Also, the Mexican stand-off in Lung fu fong wan does not end with all the guns going off and all the gunmen hitting the floor. The poetic justice and irony of Reservoir Dogs , which ends with Mr. White shooting his friend Mr (us.imdb.com....105236/faq)
Lowell Lo's music is again the film's strongest points and during the abovementioned finale it gets almost as powerful and chilling (with some stylishand dramatic slow motion photography) as in Ringo Lam 's harrowing and ultraviolent School on Fire (1988), a film that hits the viewer straight to theskull and hammers the message there. Lo's music can also be heard in HongKong films like John Woo 's The Killer (1989) and Clarence Fok's 1992 trashclassic Naked Killer among many other more or less classical Hong Kongfilms. His soundtrack in these films is again a strong proof of theabilities and power of soundtrack and music in cinema and his name on thecredits of a Hong Kong film is for me a reason enough to watch thefilm. (www.imdb.com/title/tt0093845/)
- Bob Dylan "The Times They Are A-Changin'" Last night I made the regretable decision to watch the latest Jackie Chan action movie, 2004's Hong Kong import New Police Story . I had Roman Polanski 's lone Polish feature, the stylish sexual tensioner Knife In the Water , in one hand and Chan's numbingly dumb actioner in the other and went for sentimental reasons with Chan. I guess I was thinking back to the mid-90s when I loved HK action films from Chan and Jet Li and Samo Hung and John Woo and Tsui Hark . But those days are long gone , the playing field significantly altered by the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to mainland China and with it the mass exodus of talent to Hollywood (Jackie, Jet Li , Chow Yun-Fat, Maggie Cheung , John Woo , Ringo Lam , etc.). The last good Hong Kong film I saw (on the recommendation of a waiter at Towson's Kyodai Revolving Sushi Bar) was 2002's Infernal Affairs (Mou Gaan Dou) , recently remade by Martin Scorcese as The Departed . That film had an interesting plot and great acting courtesy of Andy Lau , Anthony Wong and HK's greatest actor Tony Leung Chiu Wai (once again playing a deep-cover "mole," a la his role in John Woo 's Hard Boiled ) (accelerateddecrepitude.blogspot.com....chive.html)
I was a hardcore HK film fanatic back in the early 90s when this genre was still a relatively well-kept secret in Chinatown -deprived towns like Baltimore and can still recall making treks town to Po Tung Trading store on Park Avenue with my otaku pal Big Dave Cawley (King of Men) to buy VHS bootlegs of the latest Hong Kong laserdiscs and DVDs starring Jet Li , Jackie Chan , and Chow-Yun Fat or directed by Tsui Hark , John Woo or Ringo Lam . Now you can get any Chinese action or martial arts film in the world including all the dire drek from populist mall retail outlets like Suncoast Video. (accelerateddecrepitude.blogspot.com....chive.html)
Many filmmakers from the years following Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes(1955)have been influenced if not inspired by it. One filmmaker influenced wasJean Pierre Melville(original choice for director of Rififi)who usedvariations of the heist sequence in Le Doulos(1961), and Le CercleRouge(1970). Another filmmaker influenced was Stanley Kubrick who made asimilarly themed film in The Killing (1956). Also, Quentin Tarantino whosedebut feature Reservoir Dogs (1992) was inspired by this film. Other filmdirectors influenced are John Woo , Michael Mann , Paul Schrader , Ringo Lam ,etc. (us.imdb.com....ercomments)
07-11-07 - CAMDEN - A Camden man who had spent eight years on the lam after being indicted in 1998 was sentenced today to 82 months in federal prison for his role in a Camden cocaine trafficking organization that was operated by Jonathan Ringo. AUSA Howard Wiener, 856-968-4926. (www.usdoj.gov....eases.html)
Triangle is hard to explain - you could call it the Hong Kong action equivalent of Grindhouse - but it's three directors, not two, and it's all one story, not two separate ones. Directed by Tsui Hark , Ringo Lam and Johnny To , Triangle is about three friends - antiques seller Mok (Sun Long Hei), young ne'er-do-well Fai (Louis Koo ) and tightly-wound realtor Sam (Simon Yan) who, one night at their local bar, are offered a unique opportunity by a stranger who overhears their discussions of money problems. Help me, he says, and you won't have any problems anymore . and then he gives them a single antique gold coin, with the implied promise of more. Triangle doesn't open quite that cleanly, though, and it doesn't stay simple; it's a snake's nest of debts, crimes, secrets and duplicity that moves like a rocket, and any fan of Hong Kong Action will adore it. (www.cinematical.com....w-roundup/)
The cinematic group hug is well under way. No sooner did I read David Bordwell57;s report on the latest triangulation of Tsui Hark , Ringo Lam and Johnnie To (via The Greencine Daily than the current issue of Film Comment (March/April, 2007, p. 7) announced that the Musée d57;Orsay has commissioned Raul Ruiz, Jim Jarmusch , Oliver Assayas, and Hou Hsiao-hsien to make a series of features. 60;The one stipulation is the museum must appear somewhere in each film. The only factoids disclosed so far for Ruiz57;s project are the star, Juliette Binoche (who will appear in all four films), and the title Lapidatio âwhich everyone knows is Latin for 56;the throwing of stones.57; 60; Hou Hsiao-hsien57;s adaptation of the 1956 French classic The Red Balloon is his contribution to this omnibus. The working title for Assayas57;s piece is Family Souvenirs and info on the Jarmusch project is forthcoming. (twitchfilm.net....ve/rumors/)
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