More than 200 independent American and international films, including works by Japanese directors, were featured last week at the 11th annual Los Angeles Film Festival in Hollywood.
From June 16-26, thousands of industry insiders and fans of independent cinema attended movie screenings and cast their votes on more than 70 titles competing for awards in the best narrative, documentary, and short film categories.
Only a fraction of the 3,700 works submitted from around the world were selected for the Festival, including the 2004 Japanese films ''Tony Takitani'' by Jun Ichikawa, and ''Kamikaze Girls'' (Shimotsuma monogatari) by Tetsuya Nakashima.
Tuesday 27 November 2007
Saturday 10 November 2007
Bruce Lee - The Icon
'Bruce Lee's Hong Kong-produced and Hollywood-produced films elevated the traditional Hong Kong martial arts film to a new level of popularity and acclaim, and sparked the first major surge of interest in Chinese martial arts in the West. The direction and tone of his films changed and influenced martial arts and martial arts films in Hong Kong and the rest of the world.' A couple of lines from wikipedia.com and the martial arts style in films. Bruce Lee has actually elevated this style in various films that he has done. 'Enter the Dragon' and 'Game of Death' are two of Bruce Lee's many famous films. Martial arts creates excitement for a Western Audience. They find it completely different to a typical Hollywood Movie. Bruce Lee is a Icon and forever will be a Icon.
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