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They say you can't go home again. Someone should have told John Woo. The 63-year-old film director first made a splash in the late '80s with high-powered urban Hong Kong crime dramas"Hard Boiled" and "A Better Tomorrow" . http://www.kansascity.com Coming to America in the '90s, he found a career directing action-drenched thrillers like "Face/Off," ...

We have not seen John Woo in quite some time. You may remember some of his films like Paycheck, Face/Off, Broken Arrow, and Mission Impossible 2. He is a great action director, but he shows a lot more in Red Cliff.

Zhang Fengyi as Prime Minster Cao Cao in "Red Cliff" Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing Red Cliff opens Friday in select theaters For the first half hour or so, I resisted John Woo's Red Cliff , his epic account of a series of battles that took place in China in the year 208.

Cao Cao surveys the kingdom he wants to rule in John Woo's sprawling "Red Cliff." At first glance, "Red Cliff" looks like an attempt to produce a hit in the same vein as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." Both projects were helmed by Asian directors who have achieved success in the U.S., and both feature spectacular action.

Whose demands would you rather deal with, Tom Cruise's or China's? John Woo, who directed Cruise in Mission: Impossible II, says he found relative freedom in making the venerable war tale Red Cliff, the most- expensive Chinese movie yet made, at $80 million.

'Red Cliff,' with Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro. Directed by John Woo, from a screenplay by Woo, Khan Chan, Kuo Cheng and Sheng Heyu, based loosely on the book "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms." In Mandarin, with English subtitles.

Our review of The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3 , published November 3rd, 2009, is also available.

We haven't seen much of acclaimed action director John Woo in recent years. The Hong Kong filmmaker who brought his brand of kinetic, balletic symbolism-laced action to Hollywood films such as "Face/Off," "Mission: Impossible II" and "Broken Arrow" was filming his dream project, a war epic of ancient China - "Red Cliff." "Twenty years," he says.

Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here. I actually contemplated making this interview part of my AICN Legends column, but we didn't really have enough time to cover the necessary career ground to qualify.

One of the most significant events in Chinese history is dramatized in the epic film 'Red Cliff,' set to open in limited release Nov.

Once hailed as the man to shake up Hollywood, the maestro of dizzying, exquisitely choreographed action movies has returned to the far east East met west a John Woo.

When John Woo left Hong Kong in the early 1990s, a few years before the then-British territory was to be handed over to the People's Republic of China, it clearly marked the end of an era.

We haven't seen much of acclaimed action director John Woo i n recent years. The Hong Kong filmmaker who brought his brand of kinetic, balletic symbolism-laced action to Hollywood films such as Face/Off, Mission: Impossible II and Broken Arrow, was filming his dream project, a war epic of ancient China - " Red Cliff.

Director John Woo recently made Jay Valencia's day when he held a party at Sabor of Spain, where Valencia works as executive event chef.

Actor Christian Slater's long and successful career makes it seem like he never missed out on anything.

The Founding of a Republic, a state-funded film that marks 60 years of Chinese communism, features all-star cameos from the likes of Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Zhang Ziyi Wednesday, 21 October 2009 A government funded, all-star propaganda film about the birth of modern China under communism has become the biggest homegrown film of all time at the ...

John Travolta plays a B-2 Stealth Bomber pilot who's gone over to the dark side with classic Travoltian "Get Shorty" swagger and "ain't it cool?" attitude while good guy Christian Slater is his unknowing co-pilot. Samantha Mathis is great as a park ranger who gets caught up in the action.

When John Woo headed to America after the international success of his high-octane movies - 1990's Bullet in the Head and 1992's Hard Boiled - the formidable Hong Kong director breathed a gust of fresh air into Hollywood action flicks.

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John Woo on the set of "Red Cliff." The name John Woo conjures up images of balletic violence, such as a gunslinger so busy pumping ammo that he forgets to remove the toothpick from his mouth, and shell casings lyrically bouncing against the rain-soaked pavement.