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If you’re curious, there’s a digital version of this year’s program book up on the internets. It was designed by Jason Powell and Goran Topalovic and we’ve got a couple thousand of them in a truck rumbling towards Lincoln Center tomorrow morning.
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Here it is, in all its digital glory.
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Jun 22 2010
Posted: under New York Asian Film Festival.
What happened? Suddenly, Hong Kong movies are rocking again. They’ve given up on making bloated, flavorless international action oatmeal and they’re making hard-hitting, deeply local kung fu congee once more. Was it a miracle? Divine intervention? The phases of the moon?
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It was IP MAN.
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This sleek, hard-hitting 2008 movie about Bruce Lee’s master, Ip Man, starred Donnie Yen, it was directed by Wilson Yip (SPL) and the action was by Sammo Hung. It made a mint and launched a craze for old school martial arts movies as well as an “Ip Man Wave” which has given birth to a sequel, a prequel, the currently-shooting Wong Kar-wai Ip Man movie and a TV series coming soon.
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This year’s festival had an embarrassment of riches to choose from in terms of Hong Kong movies, and with the support of the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office, New York, we launched…
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The movie that started it all!
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(Read more and get yer tickets – one screening only! Saturday, June 26 @ noon)
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The sequel, co-starring Sammo Hung in the performance of his career. And don’t worry, you don’t need to have seen IP MAN to enjoy this film. That “2″ in the title just means it’s twice as good as the original.
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(Read more and get tickets – the June 25 screening is SOLD OUT, and the June 27 screening only has about 70 tickets left!)
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And speaking of Sammo Hung, this is his jaw-dropping 1987 masterpiece, set in Vietnam and full of more action heroes than there are stars in the heavens. A once-in-a-lifetime chance to see a rare 35mm print of the movie with Sammo Hung (and his wife and co-star, Joyce Mina Godenzi) in the house. Followed by an onstage chat with Sammo Hung.
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(One show only – Saturday, June 26 @ 4:45pm)
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Sammo Hung likes to do two things: cook food and kick ass. Fortunately, here’s a movie that allows him to do both!
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(Read more, and get your tickets)
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COCOON with kung fu, this flick about old school martial arts heroes making their comeback is the discovery of the festival. Just check out the trailer if you don’t believe me.
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(Read more about it, and get your tickets before they’re gone!)
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The best Jackie Chan movie since 1994’s DRUNKEN MASTER II. If you’ve been a Jackie Chan fan lost in the wilderness, here’s the film you can finally drag your friends to so they can see why this man is great. This one goes in his top ten for proving that he’s more than just a stuntman.
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(Read more, check out a special message from Jackie, and buy your tickets!)
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Nominated for more Hong Kong Film Awards than any other movie in history, this is a massive, all-star spectacle about a ragtag gang of volunteer bodyguards protecting Dr. Sun Yat-sen on a trip to Hong Kong.
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On Sunday, June 27, one $15 ticket gets you admission to DEVELOPMENT HELL, which tells the tale behind the making of this “cursed” Hong Kong production, and to BODYGUARDS & ASSASSINS. Hiroshi Fukazawa, director of DEVELOPMENT HELL, will be there, and so will Simon Yam, one of the stars of B&A.
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(Read more, and get your tickets – note, the 6/27 double feature is 60% sold out and every day about 20 more tickets for it disappear. Get yours now!)
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Hong Kong has always made two kinds of martial arts movies: hardcore, hand-to-hand flicks, and fantasy swordplay films. This one is the fantasy film cranked up to the max. Swords cut the weather in half and weapons are forged from the spinal columns of dead gods. Truly ridiculous and over-the-top, it’s a movie where too much is never enough.
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(Read more, and note: Simon Yam, one of the movie’s stars, will be at the Sunday, June 27 @ noon screening. Be there or face his wrath!)
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Celebrate freedom on the Fourth of July with this massive, mega-screening. When John Woo’s return to greatness was released in the US, it came out as a two-and-a-half hour, chopped up FrankenFilm. But see it now the way the rest of the world saw it: as two movies lasting almost FIVE HOURS!!! Screened back-to-back for the price of one ticket. Happy Birthday, America!
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(Read more and get those tickets – it’s a war, it’s an epic, it’s a movie and it’s a bargain. The perfect way to celebrate the Fourth of July!)
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Jun 22 2010
