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Hard Target + Kung Fu Movie Guide Podcast & Q&A at Nova Cinema
Hard Target + Kung Fu Movie Guide Podcast & Q&A
THU 21 NOV
Coming Soon to
Nova Cinema
Ben and Mike will be joined by award-winning journalist and broadcaster, Christina Newland. While writing for Rolling Stone UK, GQ UK, BBC, The Guardian and many more, she is also the lead film critic at the i Newspaper, a contributing editor to Empire Magazine and edited the anthology book, She Found it at the Movies: Women Writers on Sex, Desire, and Cinema. She will join them in discussing the cultural impact of not only this much-loved genre classic, but its star and filmmaker, and where Van Damme's masculinity and appeal fits alongside his action star contemporaries.
Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Cajun drifter Chance Boudreaux in this iconic action classic from master director John Woo (Face/Off, A Better Tomorrow, Mission Impossible 2). Taking the ‘muscles from Brussels’ to the streets of New Orleans, Van Damme’s Chance finds himself drawn into a deadly game when he helps Natasha (Yancy Butler) track down her missing father. John Woo’s first Hollywood film set a new style in the action genre, full of outrageous stunts, explosive gun play and snake-punching WTF moments.
The Kung Fu Movie Guide Podcast will break down ‘gun fu’, a subgenre which added firepower to the balletic grace of kung fu action sequences. Looking at the career of ‘heroic bloodshed’ pioneer John Woo, Ben and Mike will discuss the birth of the bullet ballet and its enduring influence on Hollywood films ranging from The Matrix to John Wick.
Screening as part of Art of Action, a UK-wide film season supported by National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network.
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Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Cajun drifter Chance Boudreaux in this iconic action classic from master director John Woo (Face/Off, A Better Tomorrow, Mission Impossible 2). Taking the ‘muscles from Brussels’ to the streets of New Orleans, Van Damme’s Chance finds himself drawn into a deadly game when he helps Natasha (Yancy Butler) track down her missing father. John Woo’s first Hollywood film set a new style in the action genre, full of outrageous stunts, explosive gun play and snake-punching WTF moments.
The Kung Fu Movie Guide Podcast will break down ‘gun fu’, a subgenre which added firepower to the balletic grace of kung fu action sequences. Looking at the career of ‘heroic bloodshed’ pioneer John Woo, Ben and Mike will discuss the birth of the bullet ballet and its enduring influence on Hollywood films ranging from The Matrix to John Wick.
Screening as part of Art of Action, a UK-wide film season supported by National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network.
Ben and Mike will be joined by award-winning journalist and broadcaster, Christina Newland. While writing for Rolling Stone UK, GQ UK, BBC, The Guardian and many more, she is also the lead film critic at the i Newspaper, a contributing editor to Empire Magazine and edited the anthology book, She Found it at the Movies: Women Writers on Sex, Desire, and Cinema. She will join them in discussing the cultural impact of not only this much-loved genre classic, but its star and filmmaker, and where Van Damme's masculinity and appeal fits alongside his action star contemporaries.
Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Cajun drifter Chance Boudreaux in this iconic action classic from master director John Woo (Face/Off, A Better Tomorrow, Mission Impossible 2). Taking the ‘muscles from Brussels’ to the streets of New Orleans, Van Damme’s Chance finds himself drawn into a deadly game when he helps Natasha (Yancy Butler) track down her missing father. John Woo’s first Hollywood film set a new style in the action genre, full of outrageous stunts, explosive gun play and snake-punching WTF moments.
The Kung Fu Movie Guide Podcast will break down ‘gun fu’, a subgenre which added firepower to the balletic grace of kung fu action sequences. Looking at the career of ‘heroic bloodshed’ pioneer John Woo, Ben and Mike will discuss the birth of the bullet ballet and its enduring influence on Hollywood films ranging from The Matrix to John Wick.
Screening as part of Art of Action, a UK-wide film season supported by National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network.
Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Cajun drifter Chance Boudreaux in this iconic action classic from master director John Woo (Face/Off, A Better Tomorrow, Mission Impossible 2). Taking the ‘muscles from Brussels’ to the streets of New Orleans, Van Damme’s Chance finds himself drawn into a deadly game when he helps Natasha (Yancy Butler) track down her missing father. John Woo’s first Hollywood film set a new style in the action genre, full of outrageous stunts, explosive gun play and snake-punching WTF moments.
The Kung Fu Movie Guide Podcast will break down ‘gun fu’, a subgenre which added firepower to the balletic grace of kung fu action sequences. Looking at the career of ‘heroic bloodshed’ pioneer John Woo, Ben and Mike will discuss the birth of the bullet ballet and its enduring influence on Hollywood films ranging from The Matrix to John Wick.
Screening as part of Art of Action, a UK-wide film season supported by National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network.
Hard Target + Kung Fu Movie Guide Podcast & Q&A
THU 21 NOV
Coming Soon to
Nova Cinema
Ben and Mike will be joined by award-winning journalist and broadcaster, Christina Newland. While writing for Rolling Stone UK, GQ UK, BBC, The Guardian and many more, she is also the lead film critic at the i Newspaper, a contributing editor to Empire Magazine and edited the anthology book, She Found it at the Movies: Women Writers on Sex, Desire, and Cinema. She will join them in discussing the cultural impact of not only this much-loved genre classic, but its star and filmmaker, and where Van Damme's masculinity and appeal fits alongside his action star contemporaries.
Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Cajun drifter Chance Boudreaux in this iconic action classic from master director John Woo (Face/Off, A Better Tomorrow, Mission Impossible 2). Taking the ‘muscles from Brussels’ to the streets of New Orleans, Van Damme’s Chance finds himself drawn into a deadly game when he helps Natasha (Yancy Butler) track down her missing father. John Woo’s first Hollywood film set a new style in the action genre, full of outrageous stunts, explosive gun play and snake-punching WTF moments.
The Kung Fu Movie Guide Podcast will break down ‘gun fu’, a subgenre which added firepower to the balletic grace of kung fu action sequences. Looking at the career of ‘heroic bloodshed’ pioneer John Woo, Ben and Mike will discuss the birth of the bullet ballet and its enduring influence on Hollywood films ranging from The Matrix to John Wick.
Screening as part of Art of Action, a UK-wide film season supported by National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network.