The Transporter (2002) – Luc Besson, the rather pretentious yet stylish purveyor of high concept action cinema born in France, found his true niche when he created his own production company and turned into an action mogul. His pictures are generally swift and sleek and sometimes silly and he’s ably filling the gap left by […]
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Hou Hsiou-Hsien’s ‘The Assassin’ on Netflix
The Assassin is a martial arts drama as cinematic poem. Chinese filmmaker Hou Hsiou-Hsien won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his direction, which reimagines the genre from a spectacle of action and choreography and acrobatic skill to a vision of stillness and tension. The first film from Hou in eight years, and the […]