The Wooden Gun

Starring:Jon Jacobs
Director: Michael Kastenbaum
Studio: Golden Shadow Pict.
Product Type: DVD

JEET KUNE DO THE SYSTEM WITHOUT A SYSTEM(r)

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JEET KUNE DO THE SYSTEM WITHOUT A SYSTEM(r)

Manufacturer: CustomFlix
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ASIN: B000O75VB2
Release Date: 2007-03-09

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THREE DVD SERIES Over four and 1/2 hours (273minutes) of professional digital quality of pure JKD instructions that cover in-depth the three stages of learning the original JKD and modern development of mixed martial arts STAGE 1: PARTIALITY, SHARPENING THE TOOL - STICKING TO THE NUCLEUS: The student must learn the basics. STAGE 2: FLUIDITY, UTILIZING THE TOOL: LIBERATING FROM THE NUCLEUS: This is where the practitioner begins by putting the technique together. STAGE 3 : EMPTINESS, DISSOLVING THE TOOL: RETURNING TO THE ORIGINAL FREEDOM this is the highest level of training where the practitioner responds to any attack without even thinking of the move or how to attack. George Hajnasr Sifu / Sensei, black belt holder in various styles of Martial Arts with over 25 years of Martial Arts experience and is the founder of Jeet Kune Do the System Without a System(r). George Hajnasr's skills were compiled by learning from over ten of the top original students of Bruce Lee, who is the founder of Jeet Kune Do, plus has overseas training with top instructors on hand to hand combat and disarming techniques.

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choose the camera
A tale of friendship and more

The Wooden Camera
Starring: Jean-Pierre Cassel , and Junior Singo
Director: Ntshavheni Wa Luruli
Manufacturer: TLA Releasing
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ASIN: B00077BPI2
Release Date: 2005-03-15

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Two thirteen year old boys play along the railway line in Kayelitsha, a township close to Capetown. A dead man is tossed from a passing train, clutching an attach case. Inside, the boys discover a gun and a video camera. Sipho takes the gun, Madiba takes the camera. Madiba hides the camera within a makeshift wooden box to avoid losing his new toy. Through the lens, his everyday surroundings take on a strange new beauty. Sipho becomes a gang leader, operating out of Capetown, accompanied by Madiba who is more interested in filming luxurious city life than crime. Madiba films a young white girl, Estelle, stealing a book from a bookstore, which she gives him as she leaves.

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choose the camera.......2007-01-25

In the first few minutes of this South African film two young teenage friends discover a dead body with a huge pistol and a video camera. The shy introvert Madiba chooses the camera, while cocky Sipho takes the gun. The film explores the consequences of those choices. Madiba hides the VCR in a home-made wooden camera, enabling him to shoot everyone and anything on the sly. He experiments with the aesthetic, technical and voyeuristic aspects of film-making. Refracting light with different lenses, candles, floating plastic bags, and even the bubbles of a drink awaken his artistic bent. His cinematic creations form a significant portion of the film. "Some day," he hopes, "my pictures will hang in houses." Sipho's gun awakens in him foolish bravado, and we watch him descend to petty crime, drugs, gangs and finally horrible tragedy. Between them both is an improbable, budding romance between Madiba and a rebellious white girl, Estelle, from a wealthy family with racist secrets of their own. This film is good, not great, but well worth watching for its themes of adolescence, choices, fate, friendship, and racism in a post-apartheid township of Cape Town.

A tale of friendship and more.......2005-10-21

Wooden Box is a tale of friendship between children of different South African social classes. It's reminicent of a Brazilian slum movie, but with aspects of the ills of society (racism) A good unknown cast of young actors helps the movie.

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The Wooden Gun critiqued at Microfilmmaker.com
Good Times in the Wild Wild West!
A CLASSIC INDEPENDENT WESTERN!

The Wooden Gun
Starring: Stephen Polk , Jon Jacobs , Michael Kastenbaum , Haley Gilbert , and Dawn Kapatos
Director: Jon Jacobs , and Michael Kastenbaum
Manufacturer: Golden Shadow Pict.
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Release Date: 2002-11-15

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The Wooden Gun critiqued at Microfilmmaker.com.......2006-03-20

"...This film does an excellent job of mixing the black and white film, wide vistas, and classic looks of the old-school westerns with the darker anti-hero characters, emotional moments, and tragic elements of the newer spaghetti westerns. Each of these eras have two distinct and beautiful styles, and for the filmmakers of The Wooden Gun to find a way to combine them is quite impressive. There a few minor elements that could stand to be fixed, but overall this is an amazing creation - I would pay money to see it on the big screen..." -Monica Deleeuw-Taylor, Microfilmmaker.com

Good Times in the Wild Wild West!.......2003-02-15

This flick reminded me of the film El Mariachi. A simple story about good and evil, heroes and anti-heroes, life and death, justice and crime, all that cool stuff that make for a good Sergio Leone-esque Western. Stars and filmmakers Jon Jacobs and Michael Kastenbaum are in top form for this gunslinging action packed romp. Let's all look forward to seeing these dudes more on the big screen.

A CLASSIC INDEPENDENT WESTERN!.......2002-11-16

I'd say this movie is for those who love Westerns and those who love real American independent Cinema.

As a Western this film follows in the tradition of the Clint Eastwood westerns, but it delivers something more resonant than all but the Unforgiven. Jon Jacobs is Iconic as the brooding gunslinger. I'd love to see a prequal.

As an American Independent film made amidst the renaissance of the last decade. The Wooden captures the essence of the artform,
there is clearly nothing infront of the camera or behind it, beyond the bare essentials needed to tell this story; A barren landscape, horses, guns, fresh faces, a camera and a handful of lights.

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