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The Kung Fu Grindhouse Spectacular at Webster University This Weekend
16 April 2012 7:49 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
The Kung Fu And Grindhouse Spectacular in St. Louis is this weekend!
Deadly Shaolin monks, legless fighters perched atop the shoulders of armless fighters, goofy cartoon sound effects, flying guillotines, black-clad ninjas, villains with long white beards laughing with voices that don’t quite seem to match their lip movements. Welcome to ’70s Kung Fu.
Dan Halsted of Portland Oregon, has been called .The Indiana Jones of Film Archivists.. Dan is an avid collector of 35mm films with an interest in exploitation, horror and grindhouse, but Dan’s real passion is Kung Fu Cinema of the .70s. Dan is the film programmer at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland and founder of the Shaolin Film Archive, whose mission is to .save and preserve 35mm films from Hong Kong, China, Japan and Taiwan produced from the 1960.s to the 1990.s.. The archive is dedicated to presenting these films to a wide range »
- Tom Stockman
Wamg interview – Dan Halsted of The Kung Fu Grindhouse Spectacular
9 April 2012 8:09 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Deadly Shaolin monks, legless fighters perched atop the shoulders of armless fighters, goofy cartoon sound effects, flying guillotines, black-clad ninjas, villains with long white beards laughing with voices that don.t quite seem to match their lip movements. Welcome to .70s Kung Fu. Bruce Lee may be dead, but the martial arts action films he helped popularize with American moviegoers will never die. Though Kung Fu movies were actually around long before the 1970s, emerging as a popular genre in China soon after the end of World War II, the decade of the 1970.s was the Golden Age of Martial Arts cinema, when the genre was an international phenomenon.
Dan Halsted has been called .The Indiana Jones of Film Archivists.. Dan is an avid collector of 35mm films with an interest in exploitation, horror and grindhouse, but his primary passion is Kung Fu Cinema of the .70s. Dan is the »
- Tom Stockman
2 items from 2012
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