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Hong Kong Cinema Classics
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The late 1980s opened up a charged moment in Hong Kong, forging operatic roots, Hollywood flair, and righteous charisma into deeply satisfying movie entertainment. Our blast of new restorations includes works like Ching Siu-tung’s A Chinese Ghost Story, Tsui Hark’s Peking Opera Blues, Ringo Lam’s City on Fire, and a quartet of defining films by John Woo: A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Bullet in the Head, and Hard Boiled. Special thanks to Shout! Studios and GKIDS.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
Sure seems like catharsis is in order so, what could be better than the kick-ass action and rough justice meted out in this seven-movie series? I’ll take maestro John Woo’s 1986 film, “A Better Tomorrow,” where two brothers, one a counterfeiter, one a police academy grad, respond to each other’s choices. Heists, gun-play and betrayals abound. If it’s gun-running you crave, there’s Woo’s tense, pre-Hollywood outing, “Hard Boiled” starring frequent Woo collaborator, Chow Yun-Fat, as a rule-breaking clarinet-playing police Inspector.
Sura Wood
Contributing Writer, Film
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