1. The Assassin I've never seen a Cannes screening more hushed than it was during Hou Hsiao-Hsien's story about a reluctant female assassin (ravishing Shu Qi) during the Tang Dynasty. Although the story is a bit puzzling and rarefied--Hou plunges us right into 9th-century China--the film is a triumph of pure cinema, staggeringly beautiful in its evocation of a distant time and sensibility. It has the mysterious radiance of a Vermeer. 2. Mad Max: Fury Road And speaking of pure cinema . . . In ...
1. The Assassin I've never seen a Cannes screening more hushed than it was during Hou Hsiao-Hsien's story about a reluctant female assassin (ravishing Shu Qi) during the Tang Dynasty. Although the story is a bit puzzling and rarefied--Hou plunges us right into 9th-century China--the film is a triumph of pure cinema, staggeringly beautiful in its evocation of a distant time and sensibility. It has the mysterious radiance of a Vermeer. 2. Mad Max: Fury Road And speaking of pure cinema . . . In ...
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