Right before his leap to Hollywood with BROKEN ARROW and FACE/OFF, John Woo united with three of Hong Kong’s most charismatic actors (Chow Yun-Fat, Cherie Chung, Leslie Cheung) for this rollicking heist comedy filled with Woo’s signature action. The three international art thieves who grew up as orphans on the streets of Hong Kong set their sights on one last gig — the theft of a painting so valuable it’s said to be cursed.
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Charles Burnett followed up his landmark debut KILLER OF SHEEP with this tragicomic slice of realism set in South Central L.A. in which Pierce Mundy finds himself torn between incompatible loyalties — after his childhood friend is released from prison and his brother decides to marry a woman of a higher social class.
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When a promising student is forced to abandon her studies to become the newest concubine inside a walled estate, she discovers a household ruled by a master who’s pitted his wives against each other in a merciless game of power. Gradually worn down by isolation and humiliation, she begins playing to win. Newly restored, RAISE THE RED LANTERN remains a landmark of Fifth Generation Chinese cinema and 1990s international film.
