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re-shot gory violence as a gimmick to bring in the audience at 42nd Street with a Cardboard mask given to the paying attendance to wear to avoid watching the violent scene when it happens

• The Waves and the Merry-Go-Round: On Location with Erich von Stroheim - A documentary short presented by cultural historian Brad Rosenstein

in conversation with Marie Nyreröd

demented dialogue

a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit

Chungking Express (#453) USED Mondo re-shot gory violence as aThe whiplash, double pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker, Wong Kar wai, an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leun), both jilted by ex lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take out restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress, Faye (Faye Wong), works. Anything goes in Wong's gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer,