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10 Essential Jackie Chan Movies
Tom Jolliffe offers up ten essential Jackie Chan films…
With Jackie Chan celebrating a birthday recently, I thought it high time I offered up a list of 10 essential films from the master of physical action comedy. His popularity has spread across the world from Hong Kong and China, to the west (even after early false starts to launch him as a star in the States). In the mid-80’s he was part of a collective of dynamic physical performers who revolutionised action cinema and the way a fight scene could be choreographed, shot and edited. Among the likes of Sammo Hung and Yeun Biao, Chan was the charismatic superstar and the one who put life and limb on the line to extremes no other mainstream star had seemingly done, since the long past days of Buster Keaton. For a time, high octane action and crazy stunts had a poster child, and his name was Jackie Chan. Here are 10 essentials:
The Reckoning.
Few filmmakers, if any, capture the feeling of yearning as well as
Wong Kar Wai. The Hong Kong filmmaker crafts lush, gorgeous, and often heartbreaking stories about the often elusive romances of hopeless romantics. The Criterion Collection has put together a stunning box set featuring the filmmaker’s finest work – his feature debut
As Tears Go By, his 1990 film
Days of Being Wild, his breakout movie
Chungking Express, which introduced him to an even bigger audience;
Fallen Angels;
In the Mood For Love, and its not-quite-sequel
2046. One of these films alone is remarkable – but put them all together and you have a set that calls to you. It will have you sighing, and swooning, and marveling at the pure filmmaking craft on display.
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