Last Friday marked the arrival of Red Cliff (read our review here) the new war epic by Chinese action-meister John Woo. But this wasn’t the same version that graced Asian theaters prior to its international release: In its home country, Red Cliff was released as two films, the first in mid-2008; the second in early 2009.
Rather than unleash a nearly six-hour magnum opus on audiences worldwide, Woo pared both films down into a single two-and-a-half hour cut. In interviews, he said the deleted scenes mostly placed the film’s events in historical context, which might not have appealed to Westerners unfamiliar with Chinese history. Woo’s movie depicts the famous Battle of Red Cliffs, which was fought around early 200 A.D. between warlords from the northern and southern regions of China.
It’s too early to tell how successful Red Cliff will be with North American viewers (In mainland China,...
Rather than unleash a nearly six-hour magnum opus on audiences worldwide, Woo pared both films down into a single two-and-a-half hour cut. In interviews, he said the deleted scenes mostly placed the film’s events in historical context, which might not have appealed to Westerners unfamiliar with Chinese history. Woo’s movie depicts the famous Battle of Red Cliffs, which was fought around early 200 A.D. between warlords from the northern and southern regions of China.
It’s too early to tell how successful Red Cliff will be with North American viewers (In mainland China,...
- 11/27/2009
- CinemaSpy
For some 80 years, the only version of the 1929 film "Metropolis" that seemed to exist was the Americanized version written by Channing Pollock. The full-length version of the Fritz Lang film had been seen only once, at its 1925 premiere in Germany. But now, it seems the full movie is back thanks to a museum director in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Paula Felix-Didier has possibly the biggest cinema find of the century so far, according to German magazine ZEITmagazin, with what is the entire film including scenes that have not been viewed in decades. So how did this curator get a hold of a complete film that had been previously believed lost forever? Zeit thinks it's been able to piece together the history. Adolfo Z. Wilson managed a film distribution company in Buenos Aires in the 1920s, and ...
- 7/3/2008
- GeekNation.com
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