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...colony's standard for opulence, vigor and splash in a dozen genres. But because Sir Run Run refused to put his old films on video, or even allow film museums to show them, younger movie fans have had to wonder: What did a martial arts classic like Chang Cheh's The Heroic Ones or Chor Yuen's Killer Clans really look like? What did Hong Kong Nocturne and other Shaw musical extravaganzas sound like? What made audiences fall in love with such prime Shaw stars as Linda Lin Dai, David Chiang, Cheng Pei-pei and the dynamite Tina Ti? Could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, Brothers! | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...cool '70s thing." He's tried wherever possible to replicate the devices favored by his kung fu forbears, which means using such low-tech innovations as Chinese condoms filled with fake blood. The actors pop them at the critical moment?a nod to the recently deceased Chinese director Chang Cheh, who Tarantino says invented the technique for his 1970 film Vengeance. The impassioned cinEaste in Tarantino wants every drop of blood?this scene alone will require 100 gallons of it?to authentically recall the films to which he's paying tribute. So his special effects team employs a selection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood Sport | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...Until 1967, Hong Kong films were largely musicals and comedies headed by female stars. But that was B.C.C.: before CHANG CHEH . With his 1967 One-Armed Swordsman, Chang created a scowling hero who turned his disability into a vengeance?and Hong Kong film into the violent, burly, balletic male preserve it has been ever since. Born Chang Yi-ying in China's Zhejiang province, this energetic craftsman wrote romance novels, film reviews and a newspaper column under three different pseudonyms. Then he set about defining the Hong Kong action movie. Such swaggering epics as The Savage 5, Shaolin Avengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

From the first peremptory drum roll of Rossini's La Gazza Ladra overture, it is clear that the brilliance of Celibidache (cheh-lee-bee-JaA-keh) is no myth. The performance is almost preternaturally nuanced, unfolding with a sure sense of logic and purpose. Even during the patented Rossini crescendos, Celibidache maintains a calm yet iron control, putting the listener in mind of Richard Strauss's dictum that only the audience should sweat at a concert, never the conductor. In the first section of Debussy's Iberia, Celibidache's unerring grasp of detail evokes a Spanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Celibidache's Rumanian Rhapsody | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

Other Asian producers are already invading the U.S. market, and last week the Shaws' own top director, Chang Cheh, left the fold to give Run Run and Runme a run for their money. "It's like Chinese food," says Run Run. "When Americans taste it, they like it." Indeed they do. In one recent week, the three top-grossing films in the U.S. were a trio of brothers-in-Kung Fu: Five Fingers, Fists of Fury and Deep Thrust: The Hand of Death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Men Behind Kung Fooey | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

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