Heat and Dust
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Merchant and Ivory’s India-set films tend to rip out my heart and stomp on
it—in a good way. Two years ago I wrote about Shakespeare-Wallah for
Switcheroo ...
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Making Peace With World Pop Cinema
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Would it be violating a trade secret if you could reveal how you watched this masterpiece of Pan-Asian cinema?
Alas,Cleopatra Wong has yet to receive the deluxe Criterion Collection treatment it so deserves. In lieu of that, I was able to obtain a copy from the very reliable Super Strange Video.
Thanks! We should petition for a Criterion release. Get Marrie Lee to record a commentary track.
According to Bobby Suarez himself, a company called MPI/Dark Sky Films is releasing Cleo Wong, One-Armed Executioner, and Dynamite Johnson to DVD. No word on when or what they will look like, and who knows if it will even happen? But if you can't trust the man who made the movies, who can you trust?
That would make a mean boxed set.
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