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10 Movies That Might Sell Big at Cannes 2013
For buyers at the festival, the question is less about the quality of various movies and more about their marketability.
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Watch: Teaser Trailer For Johnnie To's Cannes Midnight Movie 'Blind Detective'
Yes, believe it or not, even the prestigious, sniffy Cannes Film Festival has a midnight movie section. Granted, it's still relatively new, and only features a couple movies per year, but they perhaps realize that after getting stuffed with Important Movies all day, sometimes you just want to sit ba...
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Critic's Notebook: Why This Year's Rotterdam Gems Were Outside the Competition
Among the 30-plus features I saw in Rotterdam, Johnnie To’s "Drug War" is the one that has the concrete feel of a masterpiece. The reviews I’ve seen out of this festival as well as from its world premiere last fall in Rome suggest a solid, unexceptional potboiler by a reliable genre craftsman. To ha...
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Rome Review: Johnnie To's 'Drug War' Is A Gritty, Talky Procedural That Amps Up To A Bruising Climax
Johnnie To is a prime example of a director whose name means one thing to overseas audiences, and quite another to those in his native Hong Kong. While his home fans know him as a prolific genre-hopping polyglot whose production company Milkyway Image is a force to be reckoned with on the national f...
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Rome Film Festival Review: How Johnnie To's 'Drug War' Confirms the Director's Skill
A solid, visceral action flick from Hong Kong maestro Johnnie To, "Du Zhan" ("Drug War") delivers on audience expectations. Confidently following a familiar route, the Chinese director brings his brand of muscular gangster movies to a new potential market. In fact, "Drug War...
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Milkyway Magic: The Creative Genius of Johnnie To and Soi Cheang
Thanks to director/writer/producer Johnnie To, the commercial cinema of Hong Kong has entered a golden age. Since forming Milkyway Image Ltd. in 1996, To has helped produce over fifty films, and has directed or co-directed over half of them himself. While other Hong Kong filmmakers were being e...
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MoMI to Premiere First Look International Showcase
The Museum of Moving Image has announced the schedule for its upcoming First Look international showcase.
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