Showing posts with label Biography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biography. Show all posts
Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013) English Sub
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Casts: 1999, Aden Young, Alice Krige, Bill Ogilvie, Charlene Campbell, Chris Haywood, Curtis Crabbe, David Wenham, Derek Jacobi, Dirk Roofthooft, Dorothy Mane, George O'Hanlon Jr., George Russell, Jan Decleir, Jan Kleinejan, Joseph Cariago Jr., Kalaiwaa Pilialoha, Kate Agnew, Kate Ceberano, Kayla Kawai, Keanu Kapuni-Szasz, Keokeokalae Hughes, Kimo Farm, Kris Kristofferson, Larry Bialock, Leo McKern, Michael Pas, Michael W. Perry, Murphy Mersburg, Nan Asuncion, Norbert Palea, Peter O'Toole, Randy Fyjimori, Richard Marks, Ryan Rumbaugh, Sam Neill, Swaine Kaui, Sylvestor Kepilino, Thom Hoffman, Tom Wilkinson, Varoa Tiki, William Lebus, Zachary Kapule
The Fighter (2010)
The Fighter, is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KO'd by drugs and crime. Read more at http://www.iwatchonline.org/movie/7360-the-fighter-2010#4Am56fH2jlIxgVVF.99
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Hitchcock (2012)
In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma, are at the top of their creative game as filmmakers amid disquieting insinuations about it being time to retire. To recapture his youth's artistic daring, Alfred decides his next film will adapt the lurid horror novel, Psycho, over everyone's misgivings. Unfortunately, as Alfred self-finances and labors on this film, Alma finally loses patience with his roving eye and controlling habits with his actresses. When an ambitious friend lures her to collaborate on a work of their own, the resulting marital tension colors Alfred's work even as the novel's inspiration haunts his dreams.
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The Grandmaster (2013)
There's been quite a bit of radio silence from Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai, right; since 2007, in fact, and his epically self-indulgent American-set road movie My Blueberry Nights. Now he's back with, of all things a kung-fu movie: one that tells the story of Ip Man, the legendary martial artist who has a pop-culture claim to fame as one of Bruce Lee's teachers in the 1950s. Wong, however, with his predilection for woozy atmospherics, riper-than-ripe visual tropes, and shimmering decorative surface, has delivered a far from conventional example of the genre. Ip Man has already been celebrated fairly recently by a couple of straight ahead biopics with Donnie Chen; all the more reason, perhaps, for Wong to be allowed to take his habitually oblique approach. His Ip is played impassively – the point of rigor mortis, virtually – by Wong's regular collaborator Tony Leung, as a modest champion of "southern" martial artists against in their struggle for technical supremacy with the "northerners". Gong Yutian (Wang Qingxiang), a northerner, is the retiring grandmaster; he nominates Ip to take his place. Occupying at least as much screen time as Ip is Gong's daughter, Gong Er: this is the luminous Zhang Ziyi, who supplies the quivering, pulsating emotions conspicuously lacking in him. In truth, though Ip Man and Gong Er have considerable fellow-feeling; their stories don't entwine all that much: such is the way of the historical period, savagely interrupted by invasion and war. There's an interesting contrast between the technical violence of the kung fu contests, which although showy and spectacular, don't seem to result in much in the way of crippling injury, and the gouts of deep scarlet blood associated with the cruelties of the Japanese occupation in the 1930s. Leung's downbeat persona is also calibrated to carry Wong's particular take on the martial arts film: this is about philosophy and aesthetics as much as head-kicking. There's certainly plenty of action, orchestrated by fight-movie maestro Yuen Woo-ping, of The Matrix and Crouching Tiger renown, but Wong slathers it with applied stylistic devices: thundering rain, splintering glass, a buttery sepia colour wash and a rather odd repeated motif of sliding slippered feet. In fact, the presence of both Zhang and Yuen force a comparison – and underscore the difference – with Ang Lee's breakout martial arts hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It's fair to say that The Grandmaster possesses nothing like the bounding, light-on-its-feet energy of Lee's film; Wong's film is much more a study of ideas and textures, designed to ravish the senses. Nor can it compete with Lee's effortlessly mesmerising storytelling; Wong instead creates a delicate tracery of description, flashback and vignette that require a sizeable investment in concentration from the viewer. The rewards, however, are considerable: the discipline of the genre seems to have channelled Wong's flair for image-making away from the self-involved blind alleys his last few films have taken him up. The Grandmaster is something pretty special.
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The Hurricane (1999)
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
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Schindler's List (1993)
In Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
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