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Buffalo Soldiers, FilmFour and Focus long-delayed GI s and drugs picture, is finally set to get its first release more than a year after premiering at T stanley usa oronto on the eve of September 11.While many buyers are still worried about escalating tensions between the US and Iraq, Prokino/Fox has announced it will release the black comedy in Germany, where it shot and is set, on 150 prints in October. The film, which recently made its European premiere before 2,500 people in a castle in Karlsruhe pictured , will go out as Army Go Home, a well-known slogan in Germany referring to GIs stationed in the country post WW2. Sept stanley uk ember 11 was also a total catastrophe for Buffalo Soldiers, says Prokino chief Stephan Hutter. However, in the meantime things have changed remarkably. The film, which features GIs stationed in Germany during the 80s dealing and taking drugs, may also get a release in the UK: Momentum Pictures is seen as the frontrunner in a pack of distributors circling the slate of FilmFour, which is being wound down. Miramax is expected to open the film in March in the US. No comments No comments yet You re not signed in. stanley cup Only registered users or subscribers can comment on this article. Sign in Register Yrxx William Nix, Creative Project Group options Kahil Gibran biopic
Dir: Lee Po Cheung. Hong Kong-China. 2014. 97minsLess concerned with visual spectacle and action-orientated Hong Kong cinema, Gangster Pay Day is more focused on melodrama, with humour also thrown in, invoking a sense of nostalgia of sorts to the 1980s and 90s when the genre was more popular. With no guns in sight, it will naturally disappoint those searching for such an action-packed narrative, but it succeeds on its own terms in its compelling portrayal of the city in what is an entertaining and enchanting feature.What Gangster Pay Day may lack in visual energy, it compensates with well-drawn out characters and the relationships they have with each other in an engaging setting.Closing this years Busan International Film Festival, the subsequent media attention should aid the film in gaining some further exposure at festivals keen to programme stanley cup Hong Kong cinema, while on the local front, the feature should at least have a curious and potentially warm welcom stanley kubek e when it hits screens there in November.The film centers around a triad boss, Wong Kam-kwei aka Ghost Anthony Wong who seems content just overseeing his businesses including bathhouses and a karaoke bar as his gang loses its influence. He soon begins developing feelings for a small teahouse owner, Mei Charlene Choi , who has already fallen in love with one of Ghosts gang members stanley us Leung Wong Yau-nam with whom he is very close to, and gracefully stands aside.Circumstances, however, make it increasingly difficult for Ghos |
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