John Woo Bullet Ballets is coming to GOMA this month!
Few filmmakers have been as influential on the genre of action cinema as Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo. Renowned for his ‘heroic bloodshed’ films – potent blends of high operatic drama and hyper-stylised gunplay – Woo integrated elements of wuxia cinema and religious iconography in his redefinition of the form. From his breakthrough A Better Tomorrow 1986 to the balletic violence of The Killer 1989, as well as the bloody melodrama of Bullet in the Head 1990 and the breathtaking ...
Charles Burnett L.A. Rebel Retrospective is coming to GOMA!
Born in Mississippi, Burnett moved to the Watts neighbourhood of Los Angeles as a child. During his college years, he became a leading figure of the 'L.A. Rebellion,' a group of filmmakers that first emerged from UCLA in the late 1960s. This loose collective worked together to create an alternative to Hollywood fantasy, with filmmaking that drew on cinéma vérité and Italian neorealism to capture the rhythms and details of contemporary Black life.
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