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Patrick Tam Kar-Ming
Patrick Tam Kar-ming (; born 25 March 1948) is a Hong Kong film director and film editor. He is known as the seminal figure of Hong Kong New Wave and the mentor of Wong Kar-wai. Career Tam directed the 1987 film '' Final Victory'', scripted by Wong Kar-wai. He edited Wong Kar-wai's ''Days of Being Wild'', contributing the cameo appearance of Tony Leung Chi-wai in the last scene, and ''Ashes of Time'', as well as Johnnie To's ''Election''. As part of Hong Kong's New Wave of film directors in the late 1970s and 1980s, Tam's work enjoys great acclaim. According to the Hong Kong film critic Perry Lam, writing in ''Muse'' magazine, " am'sunpredictable digressions and swift changes of scene can evoke a dreamer's logic, but his sound and images are always sharp and particular." Tam is now an associate professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Filmography Films * 1980 ''The Sword'' (director) * 1981 ''Love Massacre'' (director) * 1982 ''Nomad'' (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
