Raining In The Mountain (Kong shan ling yu) first published by Little White Lies, as the 98th instalment in my Cinema Psychotronicum column The opening of King Hu’s Raining In The Mountain (Kong shan ling yu) tracks a party of three shot wide, on a journey through a range of natural landscapes and weathers. Their…
A Touch of Zen/Last Shift first published by Little White Lies as the second part of my Cinema Psychotronicum column King Hu’s A Touch of Zen and Anthony DiBlasi’s Last Shift might seem literally worlds apart in terms of their provenance, period, duration and genre. After all, the former is an epic wuxia from Taiwan released in 1970…