Three escaped Czech prisoners, starving, draw match sticks to determine who will risk his life fetching food for himself and the two others from a parked train that the SS guards. We see one man draw a long stick, another man about to make his pick, and then suddenly there it is: the short match […]
Daily Archives: August 15, 2008
I do not much care for Stanley Kwan’s Yuen Ling-yuk (1992), which starred Maggie Cheung as legendary Chinese film star Ruan Ling-yu, who committed suicide at age 24, but now that I have finally seen Ruan in something I might give Kwan’s film another shot. Ruan gives an intense performance, as a young woman in […]
Dennis Grunes 