ISSN 1717-9559
   Homepage     Essays     Interviews     Reviews     Festival Reports
Categories     Keywords     Past Issues    About Us    Subscription
Offscreen.com > Keywords > Action Film



Keyword : Action Film
1.

Author Hwanhee Lee tackles the knotty moral issues raised in Park Chan-wook's film ??Oldboy??.

2.

An genre analysis of Park Chan-Wook's particular brand of film thriller.

3.

Author Guan-Soon wrestles through the virutes and ambiguities of Zhang Yimou’s Hero, a film which, according to Guan-Soon, negotiates between a Hollywood style blockbuster and a culturally savvy Chinese martial arts epic.

4.

An exploration of the art of fight choreography as defined by wuxia pan master King Hu.

5.

A report on the 29th International Hong Kong Film festival.

6.

Festival report which covers events from 2002 to 2004.

7.

Part-two of Fantasia Festival report.

8.

Fantasia is back after a one year hiatus, stonger than ever.

9.

An interview with Hong Kong director Johnnie To.

10.

Randolph Jordan stretches his writer's arms in his two-part Fantasia 2003 report, using part one to reflect on cult cinema spectatorship.

11.

Jordan uses part two of his report as an extended mediation on Fantasia (and Jordan) favorite Takashi Miike.

12.

Low budget excels at FanTasia 2003.

13.

In September 2002, at the Toronto International Film Festival, I was very pleased to meet Cheng-Sim Lim, the Head of Programming at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, who told me she was curating a series of films celebrating the history of Chinese Martial Arts on film!

14.

A round-up of some of the best from one of the more interesting National cinemas of the past few years.

15.

As an invited guest to Pi-Fan, Professor Rist was asked to share his knowledge of King Hu to interested observers. Offscreen extends the privilege to its readers.

16.

Vesia offers a culturally based analysis of the Gangster film, Hong Kong style.

17.

Often overlooked in action cinema, the art of choreography gets its due. Includes an interview with Hong Kong choreographer Loon Sheng.

18.

Professor Peter Rist visits and revisits one of the most exciting Film Fests anywhere.

19.

A report on the fourth edition (2002) of one of the fastest growing Asian film festivals around.

20.

An in-depth festival report on the fifth installment of the Fantasia Film Festival (2000).

21.

What happens when Hollywood begins to copy Hong Kong, and Hong Kong begins to copy Hollywood?

22.

A look back to Fantasia 1999 and a look forward to Fantasia 2000.

23.

Read here about The 24th International Hong Kong Film Festival.

24.

No one to be Missed, which in Zhang Yimou's words is one of my best movies, deals with a rural town's school drop-out problem. Zhang Yimou is a director known for having excellent work relations with his film crew.

25.

Interview conducted by Donato Totaro, Mitch Davis, and Jason J. Slater in Montreal, Canada during the 1999 Fantasia Film Festival. Photos taken by King-Wai Chou.

26.

Interview conducted by Donato Totaro, Mitch Davis, and Jason J. Slater in Montreal, Canada during the 1999 Fantasia Film Festival. Photos taken by King-Wai Chou.

27.

The Asian Cinema Studies Society held its fifth biennial Conference for the first time ever in Canada. The result was a hotbed of wide-ranging activities and academic pursuits from scholars across the world.

28.

A Gun for Jennifer is a ballsy, energetic feminist revisionist take on the traditionally male revenge action film. After a successful festival run, it has seen comparisons to such female revenge films as Ms. 45 and Thelma and Louise, though...

29.

Fantasia ’97 promises to be as spectacular as last year’s edition, Montreal’s first festival of commercial (Fantasy and Action) Asian cinema, Fantasia, which was arguably the city’s most popular film festival of all time.

30.

After wishing to visit the city since childhood, I finally got the opportunity in 1997 to attend what is probably the best of the Asian film festivals and perhaps the finest non-competitive film festival anywhere in the world, the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF).


Page 1 of 1 pages


 

© Offscreen.com 1997-2008. All rights reserved.
ISSN 1717-9559.