Series
MARTIAL / ART
The wuxia movie is to the cinema of the Chinese diaspora what the Western is to the United States or the samurai film to Japan—a repository of myths and cultural memory, steeped in ritual. A total art that embraces music, dance, and literature along with combat skills, the typical wuxia narrative unfolds against an ever-changing historical and political backdrop, a social-realist grounding for works otherwise attached to legend and lore. Since the earliest days of Chinese moviemaking the wuxia genre has been a fertile playground for filmmakers’ experimentation; this series celebrates some of the most revolutionary reimaginings of the wuxia from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China, with work ranging from the baroque and ornate to the deconstructed.
Previously Screened
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The Assassin
DIRECTOR: HOU HSIAO-HSIEN
2015 / 105min / dcp -
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
DIRECTOR: ANG LEE
2000 / 120min / 35mm -
Dragon Inn
DIRECTOR: KING HU
1967 / 111min / dcp -
The Eagle Shooting Heroes
DIRECTOR: JEFFREY LAU
1993 / 100min / 35mm -
The Grandmaster
DIRECTOR: WONG KAR-WAI
2013 / 130min / dcp -
A Touch of Sin
DIRECTOR: JIA ZHANGKE
2013 / 133min / dcp -
A Touch of Zen
DIRECTOR: KING HU
1971 / 187min / dcp -
Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
DIRECTOR: TSUI HARK
1983 / 95min / 35mm