Seven titles. Five legendary directors. Three days. It all goes down next week. Check out the trailer below and get your tickets at the official website now!
Subway Cinema, the crew behind the legendary New York Asian Film Festival (celebrating its 15th anniversary!) is teaming up with Metrograph to unleash the 6th OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU FEST – a barrage of the rarest, wildest, and most incredible martial arts and action movies from the 60’s through the 90’s.
Hopefully you’ve gotten a handle on Subway Cinema’s current Indiegogo campaign to help finance their essentials for this year’s Ninja-themed Old School Kung Fu Festival. The four-day event is set to kick off on April 16 with a slew of digital and 35mm film screenings of classic ninja movies from a total of nine directors, in addition to a special SECRET screening to be held on the 18th, so if you’re in the area and have a knack for then you’re in luck.
The official website for the Anthology Film Archives in New York City is the place to be next month, and their official website has just posted its schedule of titles, dates and times. CLICK HERE to view the schedule and don’t forget to commit to the Indiegogo campaign which has just ten days left as of this write-up.
If you’re like me and you’re not a heavily educated film buff on classic ninja movies (I blame my deprived childhood for that one), then you understand what that kind of pain means. However, there is still hope as people like the longstanding cinephiles over at Subway Cinema are poised to host their fifth Old School Kung Fu Film Fest at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City with a slew of original 35mm prints of classic ninja films for our viewing pleasure. This year though, they’re going to need a but more help.
Subway Cinema is currently running an Indiegogo campaign to pay the owners of the original prints and, among other things, help rent the equipment and space needed to help make Old School Kung Fu Film Fest 2015 happen. The festival’s four-day event is set between 16th and the 19th this April and with the campaign ending in less than a month with well over 5k to raise, they could sure use every bit of help and support, and as always, donations to such movements as these are always rewarded – In this case, free tickets for you and your friends to opening night, the secret screener, and even your own damn sword. A SWORD…you little ninja wannabe you!
Head over to the Indiegogo and support the campaign by either donating, sharing or telling your friends about this event. Hell, if you run a website and write about stuff like this, by all means, have at it!
The movie that cracked the genre in half, 36th Chamber is king of the kung fu films — everyone references it, everyone steals from it, but it still holds up today. LKL’s god-brother, Gordon Liu, plays a kid in Manchu-occupied China who gets his entire family killed by the Manchus because he is an idiot. With nowhere else to go, he flees to the Shaolin Temple, and begs them to train him for revenge. Training involves mastering 35 chambers, each teaching a different discipline, and as he conquers them one-by-one the Buddhist philosophy behind Shaolin kung fu opens his third eye to enlightenment. The training sequence is a stock martial arts movie setpiece, but in the hands of LKL it expands into an hour-long, genius-level, cinematic tone poem on how discipline, focus, commitment, and willpower can save you from yourself.