Venice Film Festival honors Woo sentenced to life imprisonment

HONG KONG - Organizers of the Venice Film Festival with "John Woo's Lifetime Achievement Award honored, says that the veteran director turned to action films, both in his native Hong Kong and its current place of business located in Hollywood. Calling the 61-year-old filmmaker "an innovator of the contemporary language of cinema," festival organizers said in a statement on their official website that Woo has decided Monday to award the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. "The defendant recognizes a filmmaker who in the past decades with his revolutionary concept of staging and treatment, renewed action movies at the base, inserting a narrow extreme stylization of the visual arts in Asia and in Hollywood, organizers said. "It's a surprise for me. I'm curious. I am very grateful, "Woo told the Associated Press in a telephone interview from the eastern Chinese city of Hengdian, where he was a new kung fu movie with the former Bond girl Michelle Yeoh." I am very glad that I have with many people around the world and many friends through films can communicate, "he said. Woo made his name in Hong Kong style action movies as" A Better Tomorrow, "" The Killer " and "Hard Boiled", before he entered the United States, where his credits including Broken Arrow, Face / Off "and" Mission: Impossible II. "Woo has recently returned to China to the two parts historical epic "Red Cliff. "His next project is a film about the so-called" Flying Tigers "- the U.S. fighter pilots who had defended China against the Japanese invaders during the Second World War." Masterpieces of the war and gangster films Woo able to hyperbolic motion and bitter Violence turn a very original and infusion of romantic poetry, supported by a very personal image tension and energy, like a surreal hallucination, "said organizers. The award will be the 67th Venice Film Festival, which runs from September 1 - May 11 be in 2010.