Venice festival honors Woo with achievement award
HONG KONG — Organizers of the Venice Film Festival honored John Woo with its lifetime achievement award, saying the veteran director transformed action movies both in his native Hong Kong and his current professional home of Hollywood.
Calling the 61-year-old filmmaker "an innovator of the contemporary language of cinema,” festival organizers said in a statement posted on their official Web site ...
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