Spotlight on Ringo Lam
Criterion Originals
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14m
Find out why author Grady Hendrix calls Ringo Lam “the mad dog of Hong Kong filmmaking” and says that watching one his movies “is like getting a punch to the face.” In the following introduction, Hendrix explores Lam’s unique contribution to the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, relating how he used gritty location shooting, authentic Cantonese street talk, and an instinctive rapport with actors like Chow Yun-fat to create a series of social-realist crime pictures centered on ordinary people.
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