This year's Special Screenings section features two classics directed by the masters of Taiwanese cinema – Tsai Ming-liang and Hou Hsiao-hsien. The screenings of films, restored in 4K, will be a nostalgic trip down the memory lane to the magic tales that have already earned an indisputable cult status and entered the canon of Asian cinema.
The process of digital restoration allows festivals to return to classic titles and bring them back to audiences to revisit and reevaluate through the lens of time passed. The feeling that the world is changing and that cinema follows in its steps will be one of the key emotions accompanying the screenings.
Tsai Ming-liang's “Goodbye, Dragon Inn” is not just a tribute to King Hu, whose retrospective is one of this year's Festival highlights, but also a symbolic goodbye to the golden era of the classic wuxia films that have been kindling the emotions of Asian audiences for many decades.
The process of digital restoration allows festivals to return to classic titles and bring them back to audiences to revisit and reevaluate through the lens of time passed. The feeling that the world is changing and that cinema follows in its steps will be one of the key emotions accompanying the screenings.
Tsai Ming-liang's “Goodbye, Dragon Inn” is not just a tribute to King Hu, whose retrospective is one of this year's Festival highlights, but also a symbolic goodbye to the golden era of the classic wuxia films that have been kindling the emotions of Asian audiences for many decades.
- 10/30/2023
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
If the death of cinema is imminent, at least Kleber Mendonça Filho can play it out with some vintage Tropicália. It’s becoming a nice leitmotif of the Brazilian director’s career, whose ultraviolent Bacurau curtain-raised with Gal Costa’s “Não Identificado,” and latest effort Pictures of Ghosts, which premiered as a Special Screening at Cannes, eases in with Tom Zé’s deceptively jaunty “Happy End.” This is a first-person, arguably selfish movie––in that associated genre, the docu-essay––where Mendonça Filho seems to be waving a teary-eyed goodbye to valuable associations and possessions, perhaps only those of individual sentimental resonance. Yet it’s “selfish” in a productive manner, almost as a function of self-care, like a sunny afternoon lounging on the settee revisiting one’s favorite LPs.
The title Pictures of Ghosts has been oddly overlapping in my mind with British theorist Mark Fisher’s posthumous hit essay collection Ghosts of My Life.
The title Pictures of Ghosts has been oddly overlapping in my mind with British theorist Mark Fisher’s posthumous hit essay collection Ghosts of My Life.
- 5/20/2023
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
After the commercial success of wuxia-titles such as “Dragon Inn”, it was obvious there was an audience for swordplay and high drama. Many directors jumped on the trend, with many features being truly extraordinary and many rightfully forgotten, with Joseph Kuo's genre entries being from the first category. While having made a career for himself directing drama, Kuo employed this experience and many of the elements used by filmmakers such as King Hu to create his first major venture into wuxia, namely “The Swordsman of All Swordsman”. It is a movie which looks and feels very much like a typical genre entry, but at the same time Kuo's approach to themes such as revenge and honour is quite skillful and certainly deserves a closer look.
The Swordsman of all Swordsmen is screening at Old School Kung Fu Fest
Traumatised by witnessing the gruesome murder of his parents and the rest of his family,...
The Swordsman of all Swordsmen is screening at Old School Kung Fu Fest
Traumatised by witnessing the gruesome murder of his parents and the rest of his family,...
- 4/14/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)
The Movie: "A Chinese Ghost Story"
Where You Can Stream It: Amazon Prime Video
The Pitch: Take the exciting action and romance of a Chinese wuxia film, like "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" or "Dragon Inn." Mix with it the horror schlock and Looney Tunes hijinx of a later "Evil Dead" movie. Add a touch of "Monty Python" style absurdism, and you have "A Chinese Ghost Story," directed by Ching Siu-Tung and produced by Hong...
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The Movie: "A Chinese Ghost Story"
Where You Can Stream It: Amazon Prime Video
The Pitch: Take the exciting action and romance of a Chinese wuxia film, like "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" or "Dragon Inn." Mix with it the horror schlock and Looney Tunes hijinx of a later "Evil Dead" movie. Add a touch of "Monty Python" style absurdism, and you have "A Chinese Ghost Story," directed by Ching Siu-Tung and produced by Hong...
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- 5/5/2022
- by Adam Wescott
- Slash Film
After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, there’s a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings taking place.
Metrograph
A Kurt Russell retrospective—featuring Escape from New York, The Thing, Used Cars and more—is underway, while Tsai Ming-liang’s masterpiece Goodbye, Dragon Inn has been restored, which paves way for a wuxia series featuring films by King Hu, Ang Lee and more.
IFC Center
A Clockwork Orange and Princess Mononoke are available for a double feature, if you’re fucking insane, while a double feature of Scorsese’s Italianamerican and American Boy is underway.
Roxy Cinema
On Friday our friends at Screen Slate are presenting a print of the Japanese nunsploitation...
Metrograph
A Kurt Russell retrospective—featuring Escape from New York, The Thing, Used Cars and more—is underway, while Tsai Ming-liang’s masterpiece Goodbye, Dragon Inn has been restored, which paves way for a wuxia series featuring films by King Hu, Ang Lee and more.
IFC Center
A Clockwork Orange and Princess Mononoke are available for a double feature, if you’re fucking insane, while a double feature of Scorsese’s Italianamerican and American Boy is underway.
Roxy Cinema
On Friday our friends at Screen Slate are presenting a print of the Japanese nunsploitation...
- 1/6/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
The cast and crew of Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. (Photo by Kathrine Narducci.) Still on the search for holiday gifts? Our first-ever Notebook Gift Guide has got you covered with our pick of everything from coffee table books and career surveys to movie merch and prints. Books And Magazinesa number of books by filmmakers themselves, some new and some republished in beautiful new editions, offer an eye-opening perspective into the medium. This year marked the 50th anniversary of Jerry Lewis’ The Total Film-Maker, his classic 1971 book about the entire production process, from “script to post-production.” The book is based on over 480 hours of a lecture series delivered at USC Film School, and the newly released 50th anniversary edition also includes “all-new, never-before-seen photos of Jerry on set.” Marguerite Duras’ newly translated The Darkroom contains the script for her 1977 experimental film Le camion (The Truck), a dialogue between Duras and Michelle Porte,...
- 12/13/2021
- MUBI
When Apichatpong Weerasethakul calls it “The best film of the last 125 years,” lend a second of your time. Largely unseen upon its 2004 release by Steve Bannon’s Wellspring Media, Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn is returning—some might say getting its proper coronation—this month courtesy Metrograph Pictures. No fear if you’re outside New York: along with a December 31 release in Chinatown, the film arrives via Metrograph at Home.
So comes a trailer that gorgeously summarizes the movie’s cumulative effect: decay, loneliness, longing, and King Hu. Too close to midnight to call this 2021’s great repertory release? Whatever your designation, Goodbye, Dragon Inn‘s proper presentation is a cause célèbre when cinephilia needs those more than ever.
Find preview and poster below:
Like the Royal Theater in The Last Picture Show and the title movie house in Cinema Paradiso, the Fu-Ho is shutting down for good. A...
So comes a trailer that gorgeously summarizes the movie’s cumulative effect: decay, loneliness, longing, and King Hu. Too close to midnight to call this 2021’s great repertory release? Whatever your designation, Goodbye, Dragon Inn‘s proper presentation is a cause célèbre when cinephilia needs those more than ever.
Find preview and poster below:
Like the Royal Theater in The Last Picture Show and the title movie house in Cinema Paradiso, the Fu-Ho is shutting down for good. A...
- 12/13/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Chicago, Il – – Asian Pop-Up Cinema: Season 13 will present 30 films at an in-person and drive-in festival, with select titles available for online streaming. The festival opens September 15 and runs through October 12, 2021, at AMC River East 21, The Davis Theater and ChiTown Drive-In.
The programming celebrates the best Asian-centric cinema, with new work made by filmmakers from China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the U.S. and Canada. This season will highlight women in film, stories with humanitarian themes and action thrillers, including four restored martial arts classics.
Season 13 opens with Jessica Kingdon’s Ascension, a documentary observing China’s growing class divide through labor, consumerism, and wealth. Structured in three parts, the film ascends through the levels of the capitalist structure and examines how the contemporary “Chinese Dream” remains an elusive fantasy for most.
Centerpiece film The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’T Kill is Japanese director Kan Eguchi’s action/comedy follow-up to The Fable,...
The programming celebrates the best Asian-centric cinema, with new work made by filmmakers from China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the U.S. and Canada. This season will highlight women in film, stories with humanitarian themes and action thrillers, including four restored martial arts classics.
Season 13 opens with Jessica Kingdon’s Ascension, a documentary observing China’s growing class divide through labor, consumerism, and wealth. Structured in three parts, the film ascends through the levels of the capitalist structure and examines how the contemporary “Chinese Dream” remains an elusive fantasy for most.
Centerpiece film The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’T Kill is Japanese director Kan Eguchi’s action/comedy follow-up to The Fable,...
- 8/23/2021
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
A plumber drills a hole between the basement of one apartment and the ceiling of another as a strange disease that causes people to act like cockroaches sweeps over Taiwan at the turn of the millennium. A depressed homeless man, desperate to provide for his family but invisible to the people who drive past his roadside advertising sign, violently mauls the cabbage that his young daughter has adopted as a friend. A Taipei cinema screens King Hu’s “Dragon Inn” during a torrential downpour on its final night in business as various patrons shuffle around inside the theater, each of them looking for a connection that seems to be flickering away forever before our eyes.
While Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang has long been associated with slow cinema, the non-linear deceleration of his style has been interjected with soaring dreamscapes, electric moments of self-reflexivity, and even a handful of sexually charged musical numbers.
While Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang has long been associated with slow cinema, the non-linear deceleration of his style has been interjected with soaring dreamscapes, electric moments of self-reflexivity, and even a handful of sexually charged musical numbers.
- 8/11/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center will unspool the 2021 edition Aug. 6-22 at Flc, kicking off with the premiere of “Escape From Mogadishu,” directed by Ryoo Seung-wa.
In all, 60 films will screen to audiences in person and virtually, with premieres of first and second features from directors for the feature film competition: “Anima”, “City of Lost Things”, “Hand Rolled Cigarette”, “Joint”, “Ten Months” and “Tiong Bahru Social Club”.
Hong Kong new wave director Ann Hui will receive the Variety Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award, and the festival will screen her film “The Story of Woo Viet” and Man Lim Chung’s pic on Hui, “Keep Rolling.”
The festival will introduce the section Asian American Focus, which will feature films including Aimee Long’s “A Shot Through the Wall.” The team behind the film will be present at the festival.
“Sensei, Would You Sit Beside Me?...
In all, 60 films will screen to audiences in person and virtually, with premieres of first and second features from directors for the feature film competition: “Anima”, “City of Lost Things”, “Hand Rolled Cigarette”, “Joint”, “Ten Months” and “Tiong Bahru Social Club”.
Hong Kong new wave director Ann Hui will receive the Variety Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award, and the festival will screen her film “The Story of Woo Viet” and Man Lim Chung’s pic on Hui, “Keep Rolling.”
The festival will introduce the section Asian American Focus, which will feature films including Aimee Long’s “A Shot Through the Wall.” The team behind the film will be present at the festival.
“Sensei, Would You Sit Beside Me?...
- 7/16/2021
- by Shalini Dore
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s festival will highlight in-person programming at Film at Lincoln Center and Sva Theatre, featuring over 60 world, international, and North American premieres, with many selections also available virtually to fans of Asian cinema across the country.
On August 6, 2021, the New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center will kick off the 20th edition of the New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff), a hybrid event with Nyaff’s largest film lineup to date. The Festival will screen over 60 films, both virtually and in person, to audiences in New York and across the country from August 6 – 22, 2021.
Nyaff’s 2021 lineup will include two world premieres, six international premieres, 29 North American premieres, eight U.S. premieres, and nine New York premieres, showcasing the most exciting action, comedy, drama, thriller, romance, horror, and art-house films from East Asia.
Following an unprecedented year in which Covid-19 and increased violence against the Asian...
On August 6, 2021, the New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center will kick off the 20th edition of the New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff), a hybrid event with Nyaff’s largest film lineup to date. The Festival will screen over 60 films, both virtually and in person, to audiences in New York and across the country from August 6 – 22, 2021.
Nyaff’s 2021 lineup will include two world premieres, six international premieres, 29 North American premieres, eight U.S. premieres, and nine New York premieres, showcasing the most exciting action, comedy, drama, thriller, romance, horror, and art-house films from East Asia.
Following an unprecedented year in which Covid-19 and increased violence against the Asian...
- 7/8/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
The hybrid event has set two world premieres and six international premieres.
The New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) has named most of the 60-plus films it will screen for its 20th edition, a hybrid event running August 6-22.
The festival’s two world premieres will include Japanese director Yu Irie’s political satire Ninja Girl and among the six international premieres will be The Book Of Fish, a South Korean homage to black-and-white cinema by Lee Joon-ik, and Nasi Lemak 1.0, from Malaysian director Namewee.
The festival’s 29 North American premieres will include virtual screenings of Tough Out, Xu Hui-jing...
The New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) has named most of the 60-plus films it will screen for its 20th edition, a hybrid event running August 6-22.
The festival’s two world premieres will include Japanese director Yu Irie’s political satire Ninja Girl and among the six international premieres will be The Book Of Fish, a South Korean homage to black-and-white cinema by Lee Joon-ik, and Nasi Lemak 1.0, from Malaysian director Namewee.
The festival’s 29 North American premieres will include virtual screenings of Tough Out, Xu Hui-jing...
- 7/7/2021
- ScreenDaily
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Marlon Brando and Willy Kurant on the set of The Night of the Following Day (1969). The great Belgian cinematographer Willy Kurant has died. During his illustrious career, Kurant worked on films including Agnès Varda's The Creatures, Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Feminin, and Orson Welles' The Immortal Story. David Cronenberg has confirmed the title of his next feature film, Crimes of the Future. Sharing the same title as his film from 1970, the film is set to star Kristen Stewart, Lea Seydoux, and Viggo Mortensen.Robert Haller, the Anthology Film Archives Director of Libraries, has also died. As Afa points out in its tribute to Haller, "with 35 years at Anthology all told, only Afa’s founder Jonas Mekas could claim seniority over Haller!" After more than 100 years, Technicolor Post has announced its integration into Streamland Media's postproduction services,...
- 5/5/2021
- MUBI
Like Giuseppe Tornatore‘s “Cinema Paradiso” and its look at a fading movie theater, “Goodbye, Dragon Inn,” is a film for cinephiles that evokes feelings for cineastes, especially all of those missing the cinema these days. Directed by Taiwanese auteur and master filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang, he of the slow, hypnotic mien of cinema, known for “The Hole” (Fipresci award winner at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival), and “Stray Dog” (Grand Jury Prize at the 70th Venice International Film Festival), “Goodbye, Dragon Inn” is about the last screening of the 1967 Taiwanese wuxia film, “Dragon Inn,” before the closure of an old movie theater.
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- 3/5/2021
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
This is an excerpt from Nick Pinkerton’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn, available to order from Fireflies Press.The fanfare that opens Goodbye, Dragon Inn is followed by a comedown crash. The prologue gives us a vision of the Fu-Ho in its heyday, but immediately afterwards we encounter a Fu-Ho that’s anything but Grand. It’s just another underpopulated declining urban theatre on the eve of a ‘Temporary Closing’, which one suspects management has optimistically identified as such in order to soften the blow of their establishment’s inevitable quiet passing, leaving behind no next of kin when it goes. A torrential rain – a regular presence in Tsai’s wringing-wet filmography – is lapping at the lobby, and there is a sense that the entire operation might soon be underwater. Après le cinéma, le déluge.This temporal leap takes us from a full theatre to a nearly empty one, from the...
- 2/21/2021
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSGoodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)Cancellations, closures, and cuts continue in the wake of Covid-19. Box Office Pro, Cineuropa, and Complex will be regularly updating timelines of the virus's impact on theatres and the film industry. In response to these events, website Screen Slate and New York City-based cinema Light Industry have launched the Cinema Worker Solidarity Fund, which seeks to help movie theater workers whose jobs have been affected by the closure of local cinemas. Meanwhile, the fate of this year's Cannes Film Festival remains indeterminate, with film companies planning a virtual market (and online screenings) should the festival be cancelled. Elsewhere, SXSW pushes forward by opting to distribute screening links to its jurors for award decisions. Recommended VIEWINGAll of avant-garde filmmaker Sky Hopinka's short films are now available for free, including Fainting Spells...
- 3/18/2020
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSWe're saddened by the death of actor Robert Forster, whose prolific and eclectic career included an Oscar-nominated role in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown and Gus Van Sant's Psycho, which is currently showing on Mubi in the United Kingdom. Hurray! At a recent screening of the 4k restoration of Crash at Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema, David Cronenberg announced that he is currently set to write and direct his body horror novel, Consumed, as a mini-series. Recommended VIEWINGThe official U.S. trailer for Russian director Kantemir Balagov's Beanpole, which follows the strained friendship between two women in the aftermath of World War II. The film is having its exclusive online premiere on Mubi in the United Kingdom, from October 11 - November 9, 2019.A trailer for So Close to My Land, Jia Zhangke's documentary about Chinese novelists.
- 10/16/2019
- MUBI
As I have stated many times before in the past, wuxia is a preterit genre in my book, particularly because Hk cinema and particularly Shaw Brothers have exhausted it in every way possible. Occasionally, efforts to reinvigorate it appear, with films like Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, Zhang’s own “Hero” and “House of Flying Daggers” and Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s “The Assassin”. And although these films have succeeded in this regard (not in the same degree), I feel that no one has managed to shoot a wuxia that encompasses all the traditional elements of the category but also manages to be quite contemporary. Until I watched “Shadow”.
“Shadow” is screening at Fantasia International Film Festival
Years ago, the kingdom of Pei lost the important city of Jingzhou to the kingdom of Yang after the popular Commander Ziyu lost a duel to the infamously unbeatable Yang Cang. At the time the movie begins,...
“Shadow” is screening at Fantasia International Film Festival
Years ago, the kingdom of Pei lost the important city of Jingzhou to the kingdom of Yang after the popular Commander Ziyu lost a duel to the infamously unbeatable Yang Cang. At the time the movie begins,...
- 7/15/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Watching “Goodbye Dragon Inn” by director Tsai Ming-liang brought me back to my childhood Saturday afternoons, in big damp cinemas where punters smoked, noisily ate pumpkin seeds and gelatos, cruised and wandered around at any point of the film or searching for back row intimacy. Health & safety regulations and multiplex cinemas weren’t in sight and when big melting holes appeared on the projected celluloid we had to shout to the projectionist to wake him up. The whole “watching a movie” experience was rich, complex and intrinsically related to the physical place.
“Goodbye Dragon Inn” is screening at Taiwan Film Festival UK
It’s a dark and rainy night and the old Fu-Ho Grand Cinema in Taipei is about to close down for good. The film for the last-ever show is King Hu’s 1967 Wuxia masterpiece “Dragon Inn” and the theatre is sold out or, at least, so it looks at first sight…...
“Goodbye Dragon Inn” is screening at Taiwan Film Festival UK
It’s a dark and rainy night and the old Fu-Ho Grand Cinema in Taipei is about to close down for good. The film for the last-ever show is King Hu’s 1967 Wuxia masterpiece “Dragon Inn” and the theatre is sold out or, at least, so it looks at first sight…...
- 3/31/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Film Taiwan announces that the Taiwan Film Festival is coming to the UK for the very first time. The Festival celebrates Taiwan’s long and tempestuous history and diverse cultural heritage through the uncensored lens of independent Taiwanese filmmakers.
The Festival runs from 3 – 14 April, with a programme of films shown at various prestigious locations including the Curzon Soho, DocHouse at Curzon Bloomsbury, the Starr Cinema at Tate Modern and an exciting virtual reality (Vr) pop-up cinema at Asia House in central London, in partnership with Art Cinema.
The Tag-Along 2
Inaugurated in Iceland in March 2019, this will be a trailblazing festival covering a broad range of topical issues that are both particular to Taiwan and also speak to a global audience – including Lgbtq rights, ethnicity, land rights, environment and politics. As the only Mandarin-speaking country in the world who protects freedom of speech, Taiwan has a powerful voice to tell stories others cannot.
The Festival runs from 3 – 14 April, with a programme of films shown at various prestigious locations including the Curzon Soho, DocHouse at Curzon Bloomsbury, the Starr Cinema at Tate Modern and an exciting virtual reality (Vr) pop-up cinema at Asia House in central London, in partnership with Art Cinema.
The Tag-Along 2
Inaugurated in Iceland in March 2019, this will be a trailblazing festival covering a broad range of topical issues that are both particular to Taiwan and also speak to a global audience – including Lgbtq rights, ethnicity, land rights, environment and politics. As the only Mandarin-speaking country in the world who protects freedom of speech, Taiwan has a powerful voice to tell stories others cannot.
- 3/15/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
This is an all-star cast remake of King Hu’s 1967 classic “Dragon Inn”. The story is basically the same, but with a macabre, dark twist and a love triangle thrown in.
Tsao Siu-yan is a powerful eunuch, the ruthless leader of the East Chamber, a security agency of the Ming Dynasty Emperor. The movie kicks off with him overseeing the butchering of some officers by his army. Yang is one of them being executed, meanwhile his two children are exiled and escorted to the desert border. This is actually Tsoa’s cunning plot to lure out Yang’s trusted general Chow Wai-on. However, it is Yau Mo-yan, a rebel swordswoman who rescues the children and guarding them across the desert to safety. Consequently, they take refuge in Dragon Gate Inn while waiting for Chow to join them. However, Tsao and his army are not far behind and...
Tsao Siu-yan is a powerful eunuch, the ruthless leader of the East Chamber, a security agency of the Ming Dynasty Emperor. The movie kicks off with him overseeing the butchering of some officers by his army. Yang is one of them being executed, meanwhile his two children are exiled and escorted to the desert border. This is actually Tsoa’s cunning plot to lure out Yang’s trusted general Chow Wai-on. However, it is Yau Mo-yan, a rebel swordswoman who rescues the children and guarding them across the desert to safety. Consequently, they take refuge in Dragon Gate Inn while waiting for Chow to join them. However, Tsao and his army are not far behind and...
- 1/17/2019
- by David Chew
- AsianMoviePulse
Craig Lines Feb 9, 2017
Cynthia Rothrock, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung and more feature, as we salute the female stars of martial arts movies...
It’s arguably a rare sight when female characters lead a major genre film, and last year’s online Ghostbusters drama proves it’s still, depressingly, a controversial choice if they do. Too often, female characters are reduced to sidekicks, damsels, sex objects and caricatures. It sometimes feels like every day there’s a new statistic about women being under-represented in Hollywood and while, to some extent, things are looking brighter and more diverse by the day, it’s an uphill struggle. Still, as we wait for Hollywood to get its act together, I thought I’d celebrate a genre where awesome, strong, multi-faceted female characters have led casts as a regular occurrence for decades - martial arts!
See related Netflix's Stranger Things: Shawn Levy interview Netflix's...
Cynthia Rothrock, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung and more feature, as we salute the female stars of martial arts movies...
It’s arguably a rare sight when female characters lead a major genre film, and last year’s online Ghostbusters drama proves it’s still, depressingly, a controversial choice if they do. Too often, female characters are reduced to sidekicks, damsels, sex objects and caricatures. It sometimes feels like every day there’s a new statistic about women being under-represented in Hollywood and while, to some extent, things are looking brighter and more diverse by the day, it’s an uphill struggle. Still, as we wait for Hollywood to get its act together, I thought I’d celebrate a genre where awesome, strong, multi-faceted female characters have led casts as a regular occurrence for decades - martial arts!
See related Netflix's Stranger Things: Shawn Levy interview Netflix's...
- 1/31/2017
- Den of Geek
Ladies and gentlemen, dry those tears and cease your fretting, after a few weeks off due to a thoroughly deserved holiday (it was lovely, thanks for asking), the HeyUGuys cinema guide makes its glorious return. I imagine while I’ve been away you have simply left the multiplex well alone for fear of choosing poorly without this wonderous weekly guide to suitably advise you. Or if your twitter feed is anything like mine, everyone has just been at the London Film Festival all day every day instead….seriously, don’t you people have jobs? Luckily, the time is now ripe for you to return to the cinema and take in any of the various fine offerings still playing across the country.
Anyway, a lot of films have come and gone while I’ve been away, so apologies in advance for skirting over everything a little bit. Since last we spoke,...
Anyway, a lot of films have come and gone while I’ve been away, so apologies in advance for skirting over everything a little bit. Since last we spoke,...
- 10/19/2012
- by Rob Keeling
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Weapons, ropes, crockery, Jet Li and the plot are up in the air in this confusing but ludicrously epic Chinese spectacular
It's not just swords flying in this Chinese spectacle; everything's zinging around, usually into your face in 3D: weapons, ropes, furniture, crockery, even people – the climactic showdown is a mid-air duel in a sandstorm. The plot is similarly up in the air. Building on King Hu's original 1960s Dragon Inn, and Hark's own very decent 1990s remake, New Dragon Gate Inn, it again holes up an assortment of renegades and evil imperial agents at a remote desert hostel and watches the intrigue unfold. Li is the star in name but his lone vigilante is just one of several characters in the mix, including an escaped pregnant concubine, a tattooed Tartar warrior queen, Li's old flame (who poses as a man), and a dispassionate eunuch assassin. With all the double-crosses,...
It's not just swords flying in this Chinese spectacle; everything's zinging around, usually into your face in 3D: weapons, ropes, furniture, crockery, even people – the climactic showdown is a mid-air duel in a sandstorm. The plot is similarly up in the air. Building on King Hu's original 1960s Dragon Inn, and Hark's own very decent 1990s remake, New Dragon Gate Inn, it again holes up an assortment of renegades and evil imperial agents at a remote desert hostel and watches the intrigue unfold. Li is the star in name but his lone vigilante is just one of several characters in the mix, including an escaped pregnant concubine, a tattooed Tartar warrior queen, Li's old flame (who poses as a man), and a dispassionate eunuch assassin. With all the double-crosses,...
- 10/18/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
As Hollywood looks to rehashes of recent-past classics for the next coin-earner, Asian producers are also rebooting their own 1980s and 90s fare for surefire hits. In Hong Kong, filmmakers are taking heart from the 560 million-yuan gross ($89 million) of The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, Tsui Hark’s 3D interpretation of his own 1992 hit New Dragon Gate Inn. Tsui is aiming to repeat the trick with a 3D remake of Tracks of a Snowy Forest (1960). The Bona Film Group project is repped by Distribution Workshop in Busan. Jacob Cheung, meanwhile, will helm a 3D
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- 10/6/2012
- by Soomee Park
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Indomina Entertainment has released a badass new trailer for their exciting looking martial arts film Flying Swords of Dragon Gate. The movie was directed by Tsui Hark (Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame), and stars Jet Li. This was actually inspired by the films Dragon Gate Inn (1966) and New Dragon Gate Inn (1992). This time around they've created an epic looking film that puts a major focus on its 3D element. If you're a fan of martial arts movies, then this is a film for you.
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate picks up three years after the infamous Dragon Inn was burnt down in the desert when its innkeeper Jade vanished. A new gang of marauders had taken over: innkeepers by day, and treasure hunters by night. The inn is the rumored location of a lost city buried under the desert, and its hidden treasure would only be...
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate picks up three years after the infamous Dragon Inn was burnt down in the desert when its innkeeper Jade vanished. A new gang of marauders had taken over: innkeepers by day, and treasure hunters by night. The inn is the rumored location of a lost city buried under the desert, and its hidden treasure would only be...
- 8/3/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
New Dragon Gate Inn is a 1992 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Raymond Lee and produced by Tsui Hark, starring Tony Leung Ka-fai, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung and Donnie Yen. It was released as Dragon Inn in North America.
The film is a remake of Dragon Gate Inn (1966). New Dragon Gate Inn was shot as a standard wuxia action thriller, with fast-paced action including martial arts, sword fighting and black comedy set in ancient China.
Now 20 years later, the movie as been brought back to life with its own high-tech enhancement. But it wasn’t Tsui Harks idea to bring this movie back, but old school producer Ng See Yuen (Drunken Master, Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow), he had this to say about the release, “There have been hundreds of Kung fu movies over the past twenty years. But few have managed to remain in people’s hearts. This...
The film is a remake of Dragon Gate Inn (1966). New Dragon Gate Inn was shot as a standard wuxia action thriller, with fast-paced action including martial arts, sword fighting and black comedy set in ancient China.
Now 20 years later, the movie as been brought back to life with its own high-tech enhancement. But it wasn’t Tsui Harks idea to bring this movie back, but old school producer Ng See Yuen (Drunken Master, Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow), he had this to say about the release, “There have been hundreds of Kung fu movies over the past twenty years. But few have managed to remain in people’s hearts. This...
- 3/8/2012
- by kingofkungfu
- AsianMoviePulse
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Flying Sword of Dragon Gate
Release Date: December 2011 (China) IMAX 3D
Synopsis: The story of the struggle between a Ming Dynasty general (played by Jet Li) and his rival, a powerful eunuch (played by Chen Kun). Tsui Hark directed and also wrote the script, which is a retelling of the story of his 1992 classic New Dragon Gate Inn.
Toast
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Synopsis: Based on the bittersweet story of food writer Nigel Slater’s childhood, and set to the songs of Dusty Springfield,...
Flying Sword of Dragon Gate
Release Date: December 2011 (China) IMAX 3D
Synopsis: The story of the struggle between a Ming Dynasty general (played by Jet Li) and his rival, a powerful eunuch (played by Chen Kun). Tsui Hark directed and also wrote the script, which is a retelling of the story of his 1992 classic New Dragon Gate Inn.
Toast
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Synopsis: Based on the bittersweet story of food writer Nigel Slater’s childhood, and set to the songs of Dusty Springfield,...
- 8/22/2011
- by Graham
- City of Films
Time for some quick, morning wuxia action. McN via The Playlist has found an official trailer, which I would call more of a teaser trailer, for Tsui Hark's new martial arts epic The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, starring Jet Li as well as Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Li Yuchun, Kwai Lun-mei, Louis Fan and Mavis Fan. The film is a remake of King Hu's Dragon Gate Inn (1966) and Raymond Lee's New Dragon Gate Inn (1992) and was shot in 3D. There are some very interesting shots in this, I thought it was worth featuring today. Check out that final scene with the huge sand tornadoes. Not exactly sure what's going on, but it looks cool! Watch the first teaser trailer for Tsui Hark's Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, via YouTube: A Ming dynasty general played by Jet Li finds himself at odds with a power-hungry eunuch,...
- 8/19/2011
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Jet Li and Tsui Hark have teamed up again for The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 3D, marking their first collaboration since the Once Upon a Time in China series, and the film now has a new teaser trailer, thanks to Twitchfilm.
The film tells the story of the struggle between a Ming Dynasty general (played by Jet Li) and his rival, a powerful eunuch (played by Chen Kun), and while there was a 1992 film called New Dragon Gate Inn, this is not a remake. For the 3D, Hark got Avatar‘s visual effects supervisor. Take a look:...
The film tells the story of the struggle between a Ming Dynasty general (played by Jet Li) and his rival, a powerful eunuch (played by Chen Kun), and while there was a 1992 film called New Dragon Gate Inn, this is not a remake. For the 3D, Hark got Avatar‘s visual effects supervisor. Take a look:...
- 7/14/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
Jet Li is teamin back up with his Once Upon a Time in China director, Tsui Hark for Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 3D. Twitchfilm has the new poster, which made its debut at Cannes Film Festival.
Although this film is based on the story of 1992′s New Dragon Gate Inn, Tsui denied that this film will be a remake of the that film, and this will be the first wuxia film in the 3D format. More soon.
Although this film is based on the story of 1992′s New Dragon Gate Inn, Tsui denied that this film will be a remake of the that film, and this will be the first wuxia film in the 3D format. More soon.
- 5/13/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
It's eighteen years since the two last collaborated, but Tsui Hark and Jet Li are set to re-team for the 3D action-fest New Dragon Gate Inn, according to China Radio International (well-spotted JoBlo).The director and star previously brought us the first three instalments of the awesome Once Upon a Time in China series, where Li played his signature role of folk hero and Hung Ga martial artist Wong Fei-Hung. Their relationship on the third was reportedly somewhat fractious, but they've put aside their differences for the opportunity of creating a new classic of cinema asskickery. We're sure the several million dollars was just a sweetener.New Dragon Gate Inn is a remake of the 1992 Dragon Inn, which Hark produced. The film, set during the Ming dynasty, will see Li play General Chow Wai-On, who has a fateful date with power-covetous eunuch Tsao Siu-Yan at the titular deserted hostelry.
- 7/8/2010
- EmpireOnline
Jet Li could be going back to show off his martial arts skills on the big screen once more in "New Dragon Gate Inn" from director Tsui Hark. The 1966 film "Dragon Gate Inn" is centered on a power hungry eunuch that's struggling to take over all of China. On his quest to exterminate the children of the general, they're lead over to the Dragon Inn and from there it's a battle in order to either protect or destroy them.Li is cast onto the role of Chow Wai-On, the general who ends up taking on the evil eunuch Tsao Siu-Yan at the Inn. You can check out Jet Li along with a whole array of action stars from the past and present in Sylvester Stallone's "The Expendables" this August 13th.Source: Cineanon...
- 7/8/2010
- LRMonline.com
In a very unsurprising move, Jet Li announces he's coming out of his Kung Fu movie retirement to work with a director that helped to make him so famous.
If I said I was sad when Jet Li announced he was retiring from Wushu films (his last one being 2004's Fearless), then I was lying. It's not like he said he was giving up action films altogether or even other martial arts films; just Wushu Kung Fu movies. Plus, it's not like we ever really expected him to stay retired from those films.
To prove that point, just a scant 4 year since he 'gave it up' Jet Li has confirmed that he'll be coming out of his Kung Fu retirement in order to take a role in the upcoming New Dragon Gate Inn. It's a remake of the original Dragon Inn, which is a period piece set during the Ming Dynasty's reign.
If I said I was sad when Jet Li announced he was retiring from Wushu films (his last one being 2004's Fearless), then I was lying. It's not like he said he was giving up action films altogether or even other martial arts films; just Wushu Kung Fu movies. Plus, it's not like we ever really expected him to stay retired from those films.
To prove that point, just a scant 4 year since he 'gave it up' Jet Li has confirmed that he'll be coming out of his Kung Fu retirement in order to take a role in the upcoming New Dragon Gate Inn. It's a remake of the original Dragon Inn, which is a period piece set during the Ming Dynasty's reign.
- 7/7/2010
- Cinelinx
In a move that will surprise absolutely nobody, Jet Li has decided to unretire from period kung-fu films, taking a role in the upcoming New Dragon Gate Inn. The film, which will be his first wushu epic since 2006's Fearless, will see Li reteam with director Tsui Hark for the first time since the completion of the Once Upon a Time in China trilogy, which ended in 1993. According to CRIEnglish.com, the film will be a remake of the 1992 film Dragon Inn and will be shot in 3D. The real question remains why Li decided to "retire" in the first place. Most of the actor's greatest work exists in the wushu genre and it's not as though he retired from action films all together. Whether he liked the paycheck or simply wants to return to the genre that made him a star, it will be fantastic to see Li back...
- 7/7/2010
- cinemablend.com
A few years back, diminutive facebreaker Jet Li supposedly said he was retiring from action movies (or at least the period/wuxia subset). Fortunately, he obviously didn't mean it. Now the Wushu whirlwind is reportedly reuniting with his Once Upon A Time In China collaborator Tsui Hark for some old-school kung fu with New Dragon Gate Inn, an update of the 1992 martial arts classic that featured Donnie Yen and Tony Leung Ka Fai. The remake will be shot in 3D and will feature Li as Ming...
- 7/7/2010
- by Dave Davis
- JoBlo.com
Martial arts fans won't have to lament the absence of Jet Li in action roles any longer. Crienglish is reporting that following his dramatic stint in Ocean Heaven, Jet will once again enter the world of swordplay in Tsui Hark's New Dragon Gate Inn for a huge salary of Us $12 million. Their latest collaboration is a remake to the 1992 wuxia film Dragon Inn which Tsui served as the producer but this time around, it will get the 3D treatment. The plot deals with Ming Dynasty General Chow Wai-On who battles the power-crazed eunuch Tsao Siu-Yan at a deserted inn called Dragon Gate. Jet will play Chow Wai-On while Zhou Xun has already been cast as the inn's owner Jade. The role of Tsao Siu-Yan remains unknown as of yet.
Principal photography is scheduled to begin in September.
Principal photography is scheduled to begin in September.
- 6/30/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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