NEW Documentary on the guy who made MEN BEHIND THE SUN

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About a year ago I wrote about the 20 minute documentary short film CONVERSATIONS WITH T.F. MOU, directed by Dvdmaniacs member Jules L. Carrozza. Of course, I'm sure you're aware T.F. Mou is the infamous director of MAN/MEN BEHIND THE SUN, BLACK SUN: THE NANKING MASSACRE (Man Behind the Sun 4), LOST SOULS, THE TEENAGER'S NIGHTMARE (from Criminals 5), etc.

The film is available on YouTube (a legit upload as it's by the director). But lo and behold, now Carrozza has done a new documentary about T.F. Mou entitled BLACK SUNSHINE: CONVERSATIONS WITH T.F. MOU. And this time it's a "real" feature film. The trailer certainly looks awesome! There's gonna be a screening in September but needless to say it's not gonna take place in the cold, damp and forsaken outskirts of the world where I'm located. :-(
(if you watched that Motörhead short film I posted yesterday: That's exactly what it's like living here!!!).





But there's really no need for weeping (much) cos Carrozza is putting out the film on DVD already around Christmas. Just like the first film this one is made as an underground film with whatever limited financial means Jules has been able to scrape together and unfortunately this means we won't be seeing a "real" DVD release.

The problem is basically that Celestial won't allow the use of film clips unless you pay them (and apparently pay them WELL). I find it odd that they don't see the commercial potential in getting their films presented in a good documentary about one of the old Shaw Brothers directors. I'm not gonna go into a longer rant about this (cos there's a LOT to rant about in this regard) but Celestial is NOT an easy company to deal with. The mere fact that they won't allow Cantonese audio on some of the reg. 1 DVDs (altho Canto is often the intended dialect) speaks for itself. In short, Carrozza is gonna release the film on dvdr and let it fly under the radar. Well, works for me! (flying under the radar is the ONLY way to fly anyway, if you ask me. LOL). Rather a dvdr than not seeing the film at all or only getting a YouTube upload.

If you'd like to see the old docu go here. And you can read Jules' posts (on Dvdmaniacs) about the film here.

Here's a clip from MEN BEHIND THE SUN but if you're screamish you might wanna pass it by.

Documentary on the guy who did MEN BEHIND THE SUN

I'm sure you're all familiar with this documentary film but I'm gonna post it here in its entirety anyway because 1) there might still be some schmuck (in Norway) who hasn't seen it, and 2) there's a new one on its way!

CONVERSATIONS WITH T.F. MOU is a documentary film made by Dvdmaniacs member Jules L. Carrozza.

Carozza is an avid fan of Asian films and it's a bit of a scoop that he got to make this docu; I mean MEN BEHIND THE SUN is such a notorious movie and has always been shrouded in mystery and also T.F. Mou's LOST SOULS caused controversy and was banned in Hong Kong. And even when it was finally re-released by Celestial (on VCD only) it disappeared again very quickly (thanks to the Linn Haynes (RIP) I got hold of what I believe was the last copy in the world! LOL. Later, of course, it's been released on DVD).

Anyway, here's the documentary film; It comes in three parts and it was uploaded to YouTube by Carrozza himself so it's not a dodgy bootleg. However, altho the docu is interesting Carrozza wasn't too happy with the finished result (I believe sound problems are the main issue) so he's actually in the process of making a NEW documentary on T.F. Mou! Check out the trailer after the three docu parts.

CONVERSATIONS WITH T.F. MOU
Directed by J.L. Carrozza
USA, 2008



NB: If your Internet connection is fast enough for HQ quality you'll have to click the HQ buttom yourself as I can't embed it in that quality for some reason.








If you'd like to read about director J.L. Carrozza go to his homepage here and if you wanna check out the Dvdmaniacs thread where he talks about the new documentary go here. There's also a long thread about the old movie but I don't have a link to it and I can't be arsed to find it now as it's late and I haven't had my dinner yet and all. Make a search on Dvdmaniacs if you wanna find it. :/



Unfortunately, I couldn't find a trailer for MEN BEHIND THE SUN but here's one for LOST SOULS, albeit it's a new trailer, not the original one.