It's reputation as THE major wuxia film belies just how structurally audacious it is as it shifts from horror to action to espionage to psychedelics. It's easy to imagine much of Hong Kong cinema's knack to meld disparate tones might originate in here.
It's reputation as THE major wuxia film belies just how structurally audacious it is as it shifts from horror to action to espionage to psychedelics. It's easy to imagine much of Hong Kong cinema's knack to meld disparate tones might originate in here.
So much of our collective memory of classic Hollywood as the peak of romantic melodrama wouldn't exist without the contributions of Frank Borzage. And this Depression-era romance is one of his best.
So much of our collective memory of classic Hollywood as the peak of romantic melodrama wouldn't exist without the contributions of Frank Borzage. And this Depression-era romance is one of his best.
(First, it was Tales of Arise, then FFXVI and now seemingly XB4)
(First, it was Tales of Arise, then FFXVI and now seemingly XB4)