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Our Lady of Sorrow

Hauptfeuerwache (1968-96) in Graz, Austria, by Werkgruppe Graz

What happens when you take the greatest choreographer the world has ever seen and put him with the second greatest choreographer the world has ever seen? And then you give them sticks.

You get this fight scene.

I can narrow down a number of favourite weapon fights when it comes to kung fu cinema and this would definitely be in my top five. Maybe even top three. And best of all? It’s not even an old school fight. It’s a fast, modern fight that just so happens to be with old school poles. Lau Kar Leung was 55 years old in this scene. That’s only 9 years younger than Jackie Chan is now. He never got enough credit for doing bananas shit while being an old man. Unbelievable fight. And the crazy thing is that there’s a good two minutes of empty handed fighting before this bit.

Anyone wondering what film it is, it’s Pedicab Driver. Do yourself a favour and pick up the DVD here. It’s the only remastered version of this film out there and while it has terrible subtitles, if more people buy it, Warner might actually dig in their vaults and release the other classics they have stored away.

Trango Towers, Pakistan.

Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848-1936), ‘Angel with Flaming Sword’, “Century Illustrated”, 1893 Source

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Andrei Rublev (1966) / Edipo Re (1967)

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Jodie Foster photographed by a classmate at Yale University; 1984