Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Wong Kar Wai's 'The Grandmaster': an exile story told through Kung Fu

File photo of Chinese director Kar Wai Wong while promoting his upcoming movie "The Grandmaster" in Los Angeles By Eric Kelsey BEVERLY HILLS, Calif (Reuters) - It was a black-and-white home movie of an old man, diminutive and cancer-stricken, performing Chinese martial arts techniques in a Hong Kong apartment that spurred director Wong Kar Wai to make his latest film, the Kung Fu epic "The Grandmaster." Wong, best known as an auteur of pensive and brooding urban dramas "Chungking Express" and "In the Mood for Love," said he was deeply puzzled by the intentions behind the homemade film of Kung Fu master Ip Man, made days before his death in 1972. ...








via Movies News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/wong-kar-wais-grandmaster-exile-story-told-kung-021633777.html

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