Director – John Woo –1992 – Hong Kong – Cert. 18 – 128m ***** One of the greatest action pictures ever made – 4K Restoration plays as part of Bullets and Brotherhood: the Films of John Woo at BFI Southbank from Friday, 3rd July to Friday, 31st July, and is also out on 4K UHD and Blu-ray Woo’s […]
Director – John Woo – 1990 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 126m ***** Three teenage friends forced to leave Hong Kong by a gang war find themselves in the middle of the horrors of war-torn Vietnam – plays as part of Bullets and Brotherhood: the Films of John Woo at BFI Southbank from Friday, 3rd July to […]
Director – John Woo – 1991 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 107m ****1/2 Lightweight caper movie bult around three orphans – two boys in love wth the third child, a girl – raised to become professional art thieves – 4K Restoration plays as part of Bullets and Brotherhood: the Films of John Woo at BFI Southbank […]
Director – John Woo – 1989 – Hong Kong – Cert. 18 – 110m ***** Having accidentally blinded a nightclub singer in a hit, a gunman takes on one last job to fund the operation to restore her eyesight – 4K Restoration plays as part of Bullets and Brotherhood: the Films of John Woo at BFI Southbank from […]
Director – John Woo – 1986 – Hong Kong – Cert. 18 – 94m ***** The seminal gangster movie that crystallised John Woo’s now-trademark style of brotherhood, bullets and blood and catapulted Chow Yun Fat to Oriental, big screen stardom – 4K Restoration plays as part of Bullets and Brotherhood: The Films of John Woo at BFI Southbank from Friday, 3rd July to Friday, […]
Director – Mabel Cheung – 1987 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 98m **** A girl leaves her home in Hong Kong and flies to New York where her boyfriend has dumped her, so her cousin looks after her there instead – screening as part of Focus Hong Kong 2022 Chinese New Year on […]