Chris AinsworthIt’d been so long since I’d seen The Killer, I forgot how many tropes originated from this single film!
Was a treat to see it in the theater tonight, and the short chat with John Woo screened afterwards was a nice bonus.
Ian Malcolm@imalcolm They were screening them once a month, we got to see Hard Boiled but I ended up missing A Better Tomorrow. It’s getting me back into an action and martial arts kick now.
Excellent! I need to keep an eye out at a couple of indie theatres for revival/classics screenings.
Coincidentally think I've inadvertently slid into a martial arts/gun-fu/sword revival thing: just checked my Letterboxd and since mid-late last year, after nothing like that for years, I've seen The Killer, A Better Tomorrow, all four Ip Mans, Yakuza Apocalypse, Big Trouble in Little China, Shaolin Soccer, Tai-Chi Master, Kung Fu Hustle, Lady Snowblood and Zatoichi. It's a mood!
COMPU73E ❄️Oh I haven't seen City on Fire since the 90s either! That sent me on a search and was happy to find it streaming free via Kanopy as well, so have added to my watch list. 😎
@COMPU73E oh wow thats one I havent seen in ages
@imalcolm great picks! We just watched The Grandmaster the other night, and now I want to go through the Ip Man films as well, as I've never seen em.
I haven't seen The Grandmaster yet. Just added to the list - cheers!
I really enjoyed the Ip Man films, there is a bit of a drop-off as the series progresses, but they're all good, IMHO. (I just checked and I ranked 1 and 2 as four stars, and 3 and 4 as three and a half stars.)
@imalcolm I loved The Grandmaster, but I’m a fan of anything by Wong Kar Wei. Lush as always.
"Lush" is the perfect descriptor for so much of his work. 😎