Bruce Lee - The Master Collection

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The best feature on here is Legacy of the Dragon, a 47-minute documentary on Bruce Lee’s life that ends up getting into a great amount of detail around Game of Death, the film he was working on after The Way of the Dragon before going off to Hollywood to do Enter the Dragon. The disc also features a couple of other Warner features, including 16-minutes’ worth of interviews with widow Linda Lee Cadwell, a 7-minute EPK featurette, and the 19-minute Bruce Lee: In His Own Words, which showcases archival footage of Lee talking about his philosophies before closing on a montage accompanied by an incredibly cheesy song. This set also includes the Special Edition version of Enter the Dragon, and Game of Death II, each of which appear over the last two supplement discs. Internal List of Criterion Titles List of Licensors Calendar Blu-ray and DVD Region Map External Fan Sites The Criterion Cast Criterion Contraption Specialty Labels The Criterion Collection Arrow (UK) Arrow (US) Indicator Masters of Cinema British Film Institute (BFI) Second Run Anti-Worlds Shout Factory! What fans may find beneficial with Criterion’s presentation is that they include, for the first time in North America, the original monaural track (along with the 5.

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This seven-disc set packs a lot of material over the discs, either specific to the film they’re housed with or more general in nature. When he discovers that the factory’s ruthless higher-ups are running a secret heroin ring and offing their own workers, his commitment to pacifism is put to the test.The theatrical version of Enter the Dragon is then found on disc four, and this is the only disc of the first five to not sport an audio commentary. The Chinese Connection), 1972’s Way of the Dragon (which featured his famous battle with Chuck Norris), culminating with 1973’s Enter the Dragon, perhaps the most important action film of all time. or even Fortune Star themselves—has made it here, and the included booklet (which is a foldout one designed to resemble a 70’s exploitation film magazine) only contains one essay, though a good one, written by Jeff Chang. Though he completed only a handful of films while at the peak of his stardom before his untimely death at age thirty-two, Lee left behind a monumental legacy as both a consummate entertainer and a supremely disciplined artist who made Hong Kong action cinema a sensation the world over. Using stand-ins, doubles, and archival footage to compensate for Lee’s absence, Game of Death follows a martial-arts movie star who, when he is threatened by a cutthroat crime syndicate intent on controlling his career, must take his skills from the soundstage to the streets.

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The documentary is okay, just a pretty standard look through his life and career (after starting out with coverage of his funeral), but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to finding Game of Death II, as stupid as it is, very entertaining, at least more so then the first film (though I will stress this movie is a sequel in name only). This review will offer an overview of the features on each disc, but more detailed coverage can be found using either the drop down at the top of this page or jumping to the individual articlesthrough the following links: The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, The Way of the Dragon, Enter the Dragon, Game of Death, and the supplement discs. While Enter the Dragon and Game of Death only offerEnglish audio in lossless PCM mono (the Special Edition offers an alternate 5. Also found here is an archival interview with martial arts instructor Gene LeBell, a short 2-minute essay by Bentley covering the western score created for the film by composer Peter Thomas, along with a collection of trailers and TV spots.Even if it’s not the comprehensive edition one would hope for, Criterion has done a great job pulling a large amount of material over from other editions while adding their own interesting features. Featuring exclusive 4K restorations, hours of brand new bonus features and previously unreleased footage, the set will include the extended Mandarin Cut of The Big Boss, now ten minutes longer than any version ever released on video worldwide, and the never-before-seen ‘log fight’ from the original Game of Death shoot.