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	Xin leng xue shi san ying (1992) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the big problems with the film is its inability to settle on a central hero.
		The film is well-photographed on a variety of picturesque locations, including a river set against majestic cliffs which serves as the scene for a lengthy fight on a boat.
		In that film, Ti Lung is also trying to quit the 13 Eagles and turns against his master.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0105858 (604 words)

	Wire Fu - Television Tropes & Idioms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wires can also be used to slow down an actor's movement without the undesirable side effects of Overcranking.
		Wire Fu is an important device of the entire Toku genre.
		The film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon demonstrates perhaps the ultimate achievement in Wire Fu, at least as far as Western audiences have seen.
	tvtropes.org /pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WireFu (206 words)

	Wing Chun Review - Klotera's Domain
		It would seem to me that this is truly a case where the film has a main plot just to push the rest of the film along.
		The themes in the film work well, the action is awesome, and some of the comedy is great (particularly that from Wing Chun's aunt's big mouth).
		It is a good film, which is all the more reason that I just can't help but think how much better the film could have been.
	members.tripod.com /~ServeTheShame/movie/reviews/wingchun.htm (950 words)

	Wire fu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The English term is based on a combination of kung fu and wire work.
		Another technique of creating wire fu is by using a green screen.
		One of the more famous uses of wire fu was in the film The Matrix.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wire_fu_film (321 words)

	Kill Bill, Vol. 1
		I seem to find a reason between every Tarantino film to dislike him, to cast aspersions on my memories of his films, but I'm starting to think that the source of my dislike is jealousy.
		It's more than a fabulous (and fabulously violent) action film, it's an exercise in cinema as high pulp art; like the golden age of the pulp art medium, the picture reflects the undercurrents and trends in American culture in what is arguably its most tumultuous period since the end of the 1960s.
		He works in film, as filmmakers should, and though a legion of Tarantino imitators strives to tarnish his films with knock-offs high on meaningless shutter-stop pyrotechnics (see: Robert Rodriguez), the truth is that the man is pure.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/killbillvol1.htm (603 words)

	movie fu kung fu in the movies by Jim Eadon
		Wire fu, for those who've not heard that expression, is the term used to describe how many western (and, increasingly often, eastern) movie makers cheat when filming kung fu.
		Wire fu is dismal because it can kill suspension (pun intended) of disbelief.
		Sooner rather than later even wire fu will be obsolete as computer graphics will free fight choreography from the pestilent shackles of human anatomy and the laws of physics.
	www.eadon.com /movies/moviefu.php (841 words)

	San Luis Obispo Tribune \| 09/20/2006 \| From wushu to wire fu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But when his latest film, "Fearless," hits U.S. theaters Friday, expect more than a few cinephiles to watch the 43-year-old hit, kick and spar as a turn-of-the-century Chinese fighter.
		As San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jeff Yang wrote recently, the appeal of a performer like Jaa – who gained fame in "Ong-bak: The Thai Warrior" and returned to the screen recently in "The Protector" – rests in his ability to transcend the laws of everyday physics while remaining vulnerable.
		Wushu: These films focus on training and the exhibition of martial arts skills.
	www.sanluisobispo.com /mld/sanluisobispo/entertainment/15574454.htm (1003 words)

	Film & TV: Hacking and Whacking (Nashville Scene . 04-05-99)
		Gun worship might not mean anything in cyberspace, where bullets and death are equally weightless, but those of us cocooned in 1999 should worry when audiences are invited, for the second time in as many weeks, to watch a roomful of people killed for empty kicks.
		At the end of the film, the three principals gather on a pier to decide whether to continue as undercover cops.
		The film's "surprise" ending feels like what it is--a plot twist--instead of the homage to old-fashioned romance that it was supposed to be.
	weeklywire.com /ww/04-05-99/nash_film-lede.html (1894 words)

	Movie (Metro Times Detroit)
		With nearly 60 films under his belt and the box office receipts to back him up, the writer-director-action star is poised to invade the West with his inventive mix of cartoonish nonsense and martial arts spectacle.
		His latest, Kung Fu Hustle, is a deliriously manic (sometimes surreal) send-up of martial arts films that boasts so many visual puns, gags and effects that it’s hard not to get caught up in the sheer wackiness of it all.
		The film is a series of mostly entertaining fight scenes, all paying homage to martial arts films of the past.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/review.asp?id=96885 (739 words)

	Wallflower Press- Kung Fu Cult Masters
		The particular strength of Kung Fu Cult Masters is a focus on the various reception contexts of the films in Hong Kong and the West.
		Equally admirable is the discussion on gaming, and how games appropriate from kung fu at the same time as recent wire-assisted kung fu responds to the challenge of the computer game.
		Hunt’s descriptions are palpable, an essential quality considering that many of the referenced films are difficult to procure and unlikely to have been seen by many readers … Kung Fu Cult Masters is set to become an essential text for those researching the on-screen representation of martial arts.
	www.wallflowerpress.co.uk /publications/film/kung_fu.html (872 words)

	FanDominion: Film Review: 'Ultraviolet' a beautiful mess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The film stars Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil, The Fifth Element) as Violet, William Fichtner (Invasion, Armageddon) as Garth, Cameron Bright (Stargate: SG1, The Butterfly Effect) as Six and Nick Chinlund (The Chronicles of Riddick, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, X-Files) as Daxus.
		But alas, films in the American action-adventure tradition tell a story with a clear beginning, a clear middle and an end that resolves something.
		Otherwise it is a gorgeous, dreamlike and exciting film destined for cult status.
	www.fandominion.com /2006/03/film_review_ultraviolet_a_beau.html (540 words)

	Sam the Iron Bridge (1993)
		There are a number of "wired" fights that match the quality and style of the previous film, but uninspiring acting and a lethargic, derivative story makes this sequel less appealing.
		The film starts off on the right foot with a fun teahouse brawl featuring Fennie Yuen as Keke, parading as a man. She pulls off a series of eye-catching moves with apparent ease.
		It's interesting to note at this point that no one in the film seems to care so much about what the emperor's wishes are, but rather what their conscience tells them.
	www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/samtheironbridge.htm (813 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: The Medallion
		On the contrary, the film's crucial double entendre sequence—a gay-vague shtick at the Interpol police department—is so juvenile any fool with a fear of penetration could have written it.
		Claire Forlani's entrance is cued to a cheesy swell in the film's score.
		While the screenwriters are merely content with pitting the film's women against each other in a requisite cat fight, the meows on the film's soundtrack suggests that the filmmakers were working overtime to subvert the garbage they were handed.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=774 (504 words)

	Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
		Keanu Reeves told SCI FI Wire that he started training for The Matrix 2 and 3 a month ago, and that moviegoers should expect more ambitious things in the sequels to 1999's hit film.
		He said he doesn't know when filming will start on the sequels, which are to be shot back-to-back in Australia, San Francisco and other locations.
		There was a freshness to it; there's a nice vitality to the film, if you relate to the picture.
	www.scifi.com /scifiwire/art-main.html?2000-12/18/12.00.film (263 words)

	Zeek: Simulacra, Simulation and Science Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The effects in the film were nonpareil, filled with CGI, wire fu sequences, and bullet-time special effects.
		There was an organic seam between the production of the film and its subject matter: man and machine struggling to reach perfect harmony in the face of mass confusion and illusion.
		Their film was a simulation of a simulacra (As now seems well known, Simulations and Simulacra is the title of Jean Baudrillard's 1981 book, a hollowed out version of which Neo uses to hide his illicit computer discs).
	www.zeek.net /film_03063.shtml (758 words)

	Kung Fu Cult Masters - From Bruce Lee To Crouching Tiger by Leon Hunt (London: Wallflower Press, 2003)
		When film academics direct their attention to the martial arts film, the tone of their writing often becomes wistful and the content personal.
		In David Bordwell's seminal essay, “Aesthetics Action: Kung Fu, Gunplay and Cinematic Expressivity”, wherein the universally referenced phrase “pause burst pause” was developed, he gave an autobiographical image of a portly cineaste seized by the fanciful notion of vaulting a parked car with a graceful leap (1).
		Given that Zhang Che was instrumental in claiming the kung fu film for male actors a further discussion of his films and the scant representation of women in them would have strengthened the historical context of chapter five.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/books/03/29/kung_fu_cult_masters.html (2362 words)

	Kill Bill, Vol. 1
		I seem to find a reason between every Tarantino film to dislike him, to cast aspersions on my memories of his films, but I'm starting to think that the source of my dislike is jealousy.
		It's more than a fabulous (and fabulously violent) action film, it's an exercise in cinema as high pulp art; like the golden age of the pulp art medium, the picture reflects the undercurrents and trends in American culture in what is arguably its most tumultuous period since the end of the 1960s.
		He works in film, as filmmakers should, and though a legion of Tarantino imitators strives to tarnish his films with knock-offs high on meaningless shutter-stop pyrotechnics (see: Robert Rodriguez), the truth is that the man is pure.
	filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/killbillvol1.htm (603 words)

	The House of Flying Daggers review by Jon Waterman
		Most of the wire action you’ll see is the ones dangling off the fake squirrel that appears in one shot.
		Even though the fighting is mostly back-to-basics (yet surprisingly dull), I’d consider it a wire-fu because of the few sequences that utilize the anti-gravitational style and for all those flying daggers.
		Those desperate for a new martial arts flick may be disappointed in the banality of this film.
	www.filmbrats.com /reviews/h/houseflydagbyjon.html (675 words)

	Variety.com - FILM
		In a departure from tradition, a number of films that will be shown at the Cannes Festival this year have never been seen before and, further, will never be available for release.
		The films, in fact, are of two or three minutes duration and were directed by past winners of the coveted Palme d'Or.
		The filmmakers were asked to do the films by Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux as part of the 60th year anniversary of the festival, which kicks off May 15.
	www.variety.com /index.asp?layout=dept_main&dept=FILM (578 words)

	Film & TV: Kick Ass! (Weekly Alibi . 11-17-97)
		I'm speaking, of course, about the Hong Kong Film Fest at UNM's Southwest Film Center--a yearly ritual in which sane-minded students and scholars gather to take in the mind-numbing coolness of four explosive action flicks packed with kung fu, high-caliber weapons and the occasional hopping ghost.
		Although Hong Kong is now part of China and the future of its film industry is in serious question, the fine folks at SWFC have rescued a quartet of great pre-reunification films.
		None of the actor's previous films had been a hit in Asia, and his reputation as "the next Bruce Lee" was fading fast.
	weeklywire.com /ww/11-17-97/alibi_film1.html (657 words)

	Wu Lin sheng dou shi (1992) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There are many fights throughout the film, all staged amidst picturesque locations and settings in Mainland China, including a towering, multi-storied hilltop temple which the pirates have taken over as their hiding place.
		Cynthia, in particular, is beautifully costumed and made-up throughout but also gets to participate in the action almost as much as her co-star, who is also credited as co-director of the fight scenes.
		She has to keep him hidden, fed and cared for, and has to pull off a ruse in which he masquerades as her crazy uncle to disguise the fact that he can't speak the villagers' language.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0105842 (690 words)

	Jedi Council Forums - The Art of Fight Choreography
		I just meant that an action film featuring a few 5-second fights would generally be dismissed by most movie-goers because it wouldn't be anything like what they expected.
		Film gives you more of a dialogue in terms of shot selection, but you can make a good fight look bad or a simple fight look passable.
		In film, I suppose it would be easier--but all you'd (hopefully) be doing is changing the camera angle--not needing to change the technique.
	boards.theforce.net /fan_films/b10015/20453858/r25354029 (2166 words)

	cinema's Xanga Site
		Though I wouldn't consider it the "greatest" kung fu film, it is, however the archetypal film everyone refers to when they say "Old School Kung Fu".
		The premise of the film is so painfully cliche, that after a matter of 5 minutes, it practically gives up at trying to be scary, and drags on, allowing elements of absurdity to catch the viewers attention.
		This film chronicles one Harvey Pekar, whom through the 70's and 80's had become an underground icon for being the protagonist in a series of comic books dubbed "American Splendor".
	www.xanga.com /cinema (775 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: The One
		Per usual, a considerable amount of this year's New Directors/New Films selections are carryovers from Toronto and Park City.
		While the film's intergalactic traveling may be an unabashedly simple backdrop for Li's graceful moves, the material's semantics are ripe with unfulfilled possibilities.
		Director James Wong does right by the film's suspenseful MRI sequence though most of the film's effects are noticeably hackneyed.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=311 (302 words)

	[KFCC] Iron Monkey Review
		The Kung Fu used in the movie is of the fantasy style but semi believable as there is no magic or special effects, only the most incredible moves you've ever seen.
		This is a good classic Kung Fu film, anyone who enjoys traditional Chinese stories or has enjoyed Once Upon a Time in China will enjoy this film, especially the fantasy kung fu fans.
		One thing we'd like to mention, if you don't know like kung fu fighting all that much you might be bored because most of the film is fighting but if you don't like kung fu movies you probably did not bother to read the review till here.
	www.kfccinema.com /reviews/kungfu/ironmonkey/ironmonkey.html (747 words)

	Kung Fu Colt Master DVD
		If you watch this film for the first time, and you miss even a few lines of the opening exposition, you are going to be lost.
		THE KUNG FU COLT MASTER is a film that is mostly written off because it is a mixture of complex Chinese lore/fantasy, outrageous action and stunt work, kinetic visuals, and offbeat humor.
		While the film is guilty of many things, it has an intelligent storyline to counter the eye-candy visuals.
	www.dvdcult.com /rev_KFColtMaster.htm (2370 words)

	Backporch Beer: Fantastic Fest: Day 6
		The Listening Dead - this bandw short is filmed like a silent movie but the supporting music is just as riveting as the visuals.
		The first third of Roman was filmed in 2004 before the actress who plays the primary victim was awarded the leading role in Veronica Mars, then Lucky and Angela got busy with other projects.
		They finished the film this year and it’s another indie/weirdo/horror success from the two, but it’s also another film with the ameteur look and feel from this talented pair who shun the system.
	www.rollerfeet.com /backporchbeer/archives/003914.html (378 words)

	Bride with White Hair (1993)
		Here's one film that lives up to the every last bit of hype fans hurl about it.
		There are many exciting camera shots, and the way some of the sequences are edited, and fights choreographed, is a mark of a competent and inspired director.
		Yu was so good in this film, he could not even match himself with the sequel.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /film/reviews/b/bride-with-white-hair.html (467 words)

	Zeek: Simulacra, Simulation and Science Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The films had to justify the vast resources provided for their production, and the directors also imposed on themselves the need to flesh out the backstory and surrounding philosophy.
		The most impressive of its achievements was that, as a major Hollywood film, it had the courage to undermine its own messianic narrative.
		At the end of the first film, Neo had become the equivalent of a Gnostic prophet; he had gained the secret knowledge that all was illusion, and had the magical power to hack the code.
	www.zeek.net /film_03064.shtml (675 words)

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