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Author Charles Leary

Charles Leary

Charles Leary is a Ph.D. candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University.

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Hustle with Speed: The 29th Hong Kong International Film Festival

Charles Leary
July 2005
Festival Reports
March 22–April 6, 2005 The Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), finishing its 29th installment this past April, has long been a sophisticated locus not only for Hong Kong film culture and cin...
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Permanent Satisfactions: The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s edited by Thomas Elsaesser, Alexander Horwath, and Noel King

Charles Leary
October 2004
Book Reviews
I'll tell you one thing. There's nothing like building up an old automobile from scratch and wiping out one of these Detroit machines. That'll give you a set of emotions that'll stay with you. Know what I mean?...
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What is the Matrix? Cinema, Totality, and Topophilia

Charles Leary
July 2004
Beyond the Grave of Genre
Leary maps the vertiginous images of “totality” presented in The Matrix and its sequels.
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Johnny Staccato: “The Shop of the Four Winds”

Charles Leary
April 2004
CTEQ Annotations on Film
Johnny Staccato: “The Shop of the Four Winds” (1959 USA 26 mins) Prod Co: Revue Studios Prod: Everett Chambers Dir: Boris Segal Scr: Sidney Michaels Phot: John F. Warren Ed: Edward Haire Mus: Elmer Berns...
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What Goes Around, Comes Around: Infernal Affairs II and III and Running on Karma

Charles Leary
February 2004
Feature Articles
Jumping back and forward in time, these recent blockbusters offer multiple allegories of Hong Kong's past, present and future.
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The People Are Missing: The 25th Taipei Golden Horse International Film Festival (and 40th Golden Horse Awards)

Charles Leary
February 2004
Festival Reports
Sometimes the third world film-maker finds himself before an illiterate public, swamped by American, Egyptian or Indian serials, and karate films, and he has to go through all this, it is this material that h...
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Performing the Documentary, or Making It To the Other Bank

Charles Leary
July 2003
Feature Articles
A recent, unconventional Chinese documentary blurs the lines between cinema, theatre and ‘reality.’
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Infernal Affairs: High Concept in Hong Kong

Charles Leary
May 2003
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Hong Kong's most ambitious blockbuster reveals shifts in the industrial logic of world cinema.

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