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Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983) – Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day – Tsui Hark

blake — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:05:42 +0000

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Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day
Friday, April 24, 2009

Exciting Japanese poster artwork with Yuen Biao front and center stage. I really honestly haven’t seen this Tsui Hark film in awhile as I typically visit his amazing The Blade.

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::: Japanese Poster Celebration Month – January 2009

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Official original Japanese poster artwork for this film.

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The Blade (1995) – Movie Wallpaper – Japanese Poster

blake — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:05:35 +0000

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There are some movies that can only be seen, felt and experienced on the big screen. Home theater and/or home video just will never do them justice like its projected film version. Tsui Hark throws bold colors, jolting sound design and an overall assault into every spec of The Blade’s celluloid to such an extent that any home video releases will ultimately fall way short of recreating it. Days of Heaven from Terrence Malick certainly comes to mind as a similar type of movie going experience with a projected film print. Criterion while certainly doing an admirable job with its release of Heaven, still fell way short of offering up the power it yielded when unspooled from a film projector on the big screen. I long to see this on the big screen again with only one viewing of its powerful film print under my belt.

In an age of home video overload it takes the best of cinema pumping out of film reel after reel in the dark of the movie theater to remind us how powerful a movie going experience can be. The Blade is one such movie that only truly lives and breaths as a film print. Home video concerns itself more with neat presentation and commercial availability whereas film prints when screened offer up and concerns itself solely with experience. Like any cinephile I’m greatful for home video to register a movie but I long for film print viewings that allow me to actually experience it.

The Blade is hands down one of the best martial arts movies ever made that most people sadly have yet to see. Tsui Hark, wherever you are out there… I can’t thank you enough for making such a true action classic.

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Official artwork that was used in the original Japanese poster for the film.

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::: IMDb Profile

A Better Tomorrow III (1989) – Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day – Chow Yun-Fat

blake — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:00:51 +0000

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Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day
Thursday, December 4, 2008

Whatever you may feel about this Tsui Hark directed A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (Ying hung boon sik III jik yeung ji gor) entry into the A Better Tomorrow series… there is no denying this one seriously cool poster for the film with a nice backdrop silhouette of Chow Yun-Fat.

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Official artwork that was used in the original Japanese poster for the film.

Related Links:
::: IMDb Profile