johnnie to's ELECTION

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<3 Francis Ng

Wes Brodicus, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 13:15 (eight years ago) link

anyone seen OFFICE?

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 13:44 (eight years ago) link

me and morbs have seen it

, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 13:51 (eight years ago) link

how is it? it's finally getting a single screening in my neck of the woods in a few weeks.

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 13:52 (eight years ago) link

also yeah paper football scene in the mission is great; to is really good at scenes of people hanging out (see also 1/2 of "expect the unexpected")

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 13:53 (eight years ago) link

it's okay? it's a great piece of technique

, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 13:58 (eight years ago) link

three months pass...

anyone seen Three? only playing at a 42nd St plex here.

http://www.metacritic.com/movie/three-2016

helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link

sounds interesting

Nhex, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFiVIkMVagc

nomar, Monday, 4 July 2016 03:35 (seven years ago) link

Still haven't seen Election -missed it when it was on Mubi, sorry- or anything else of his other than The Heroic Trio, which I really dig. Like the darker sequel too, Executioners, although he didn't seem to direct that, don't know if he had any other involvement.

Tarzan v. BMI (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 July 2016 04:04 (seven years ago) link

watched life without principle last night (on hulu) - really enjoyed it

, Monday, 4 July 2016 12:05 (seven years ago) link

one year passes...

still great

, Saturday, 8 July 2017 03:31 (six years ago) link

two years pass...

is this the only Johnnie To thread? a few of his movies are on Canadian Netflix but it doesn't seem to be a great selection. I did watch Don't Go Breaking My Heart and found it handsomely shot but ruined by its utterly psychotic characters

Simon H., Friday, 6 September 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

revisiting drug war and it rules as much as I remembered

intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 23:58 (two years ago) link

four months pass...

Watched Trivisa - a Milkway production, not directed by To but it could as well have been. Crazy plot twists, cynicism, quirk. Whole thing's a pretty explicit metaphor for the Handover, kind of a farewell letter to the vanishing Hong Kong film industry. Film's super explicit about corruption amongst the mainland authorities - basically one of the gangsters tries to go semi-legit and gets frustrated by the fact that Chinese officials are less dependable and more demanding than previous authorities, who also had to be bribed but only once while these guys just keep pushing it again and again. Film's from 2016, perhaps they couldn't get away with portraying something like that now. Or perhaps they could, I won't fake deep knowledge of the Chinese censorship system.

Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 09:58 (two years ago) link

It's on Shudder, for some weird reason.

Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 09:58 (two years ago) link

eight months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2EuZ4bngqE

MaresNest, Friday, 29 July 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link

three months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7UCUlcE0A0

MaresNest, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link

seven months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zksKhwBZljY

MaresNest, Friday, 23 June 2023 18:14 (nine months ago) link


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