During its heyday, from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, Hong Kong’s Shaw Bros. Studio — Asia’s biggest and best — made more films than any Hollywood major. But soon thereafter, its movies became mostly the stuff of legend, with business-savvy company head Run Run Shaw keeping them in the vaults until 2002, when his price was met. Since then, the larger part of the Shaw library has resurfaced on DVD and in occasional retrospectives. The Los Angeles Film Festival follows suit with a small but righteous selection: three bona fide classics and two amusing curios that hint at the breadth of genres actually tackled at Shaw Bros., extending well beyond the kung fu product the studio is automatically associated with. They also demonstrate that not all Shaw productions live up to the... More >>>