They Shot Pictures Ep#32: Lau Kar-leung
They Shot Pictures
English - June 25, 2014 16:08 - 2 hours - 112 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsTV & Film Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: They Shot Pictures Ep #31: Fassbinder Melodramas
Next Episode: They Shot Pictures Ep#33: Douglas Sirk
Sean is joined by Matt Lynch and CJ Roy to talk about Hong Kong
director Lau Kar-leung, the man behind many of the greatest kung fu
films of the Shaw Brothers era. They cover pretty much his whole career,
with many digressions on martial arts cinema in general, but focus
especially on three of his best films: Dirty Ho (1976), My Young Auntie (1981) and
Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter (1983).
Sean writes about all things film on this here blog and is also on twitter @TheEndofCinema.
Matt can be found at Scarecrow Video in Seattle and on twitter @colonelmortimer.CJ can be found in Canada and on twitter @CJRoy89.