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Blogs, Bleader Aug 4, 2015
The man who inspired Reservoir Dogs is back with another down-and-dirty crime saga

Now playing at the River East 21, Wild City is Hong Kong director Ringo Lam's first film in 12 years.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Foreign, Ringo Lam, Wild City, Hong Kong cinema, Quentin Tarantino, City on Fire, Reservoir Dogs, Louis Koo

Blogs, Bleader Sep 30, 2013
Waking up to Young Detective Dee

Why the new Tsui Hark film, playing this week at the River East 21, is ideal moviegoing for a Sunday morning
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Gross, Moviegoing, Film, Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Tsui Hark, Andy Lau, Hong Kong cinema, Mark Chao, River East 21, moviegoing

Blogs, Bleader Nov 9, 2012
Johnnie To's Life Without Principle: a comic thriller on the investment banking industry

The thriller we live in: notes on the Hong Kong master's latest film
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, It's Complicated, Film, Life Without Principle, Johnnie To, Milkyway Image Ltd., Hong Kong cinema, investment banking, Denise Ho, Vincente Minnelli, Some Came Running, Gene Siskel Film Center

Blogs, Bleader Aug 30, 2012
Coming soon: Tsui Hark's Flying Swords of Dragon Gate

Previewing the limited release, in IMAX 3-D, of the Hong Kong master's latest period adventure
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Things I Love, Film, Tsui Hark, Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, Jet Li, Crown Village 18, IMAX 3D, Once Upon a Time in China, Peking Opera Blues, Hong Kong Cinema, King Hu, Dragon Inn, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Zu Warriors From Magic Mountain

Blogs, Bleader May 11, 2012
What's new, again: Ann Hui's Visible Secret

Checking out the great Hong Kong director Ann Hui at her goofiest
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Film, Ann Hui, Visible Secret, A Simple Life, Zodiac Killers, Song of the Exile, Tsui Hark, Hong Kong cinema, DVD, Lucian Pintilie

Blogs, Bleader May 9, 2012
What's new again: Ann Hui's Zodiac Killers

Checking out a 1991 crime drama by the great Hong Kong filmmaker
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: On Video, Film, Ann Hui, Zodiac Killers, A Simple Life, Andy Lau, Cherie Chung, John Woo, Nien-Jen Wu, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Edward Yang, Hong Kong cinema

Blogs, Bleader May 7, 2012
Three questions for Ann Hui's A Simple Life

Starting to figure out the deceptively simple Hong Kong drama
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, A Simple Life, Ann Hui, Andy Lau, Deannie Ip, River East 21, Hong Kong cinema, aging, nursing homes

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