tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-201868652024-03-14T03:00:01.282-04:00Kung Fu FridaysA shaolin show and tell that journeys to the east and sometimes just around the corner...Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845482788512397608noreply@blogger.comBlogger436125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20186865.post-36556471547841905462016-04-12T11:53:00.001-04:002016-04-12T11:53:23.861-04:00flip the discRandom assortment of HK themed LPs on ebay that I'd love to own, but should probably not bid on...<br />
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Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845482788512397608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20186865.post-88972257508585385832016-01-10T16:25:00.001-05:002016-01-10T16:25:05.003-05:00Jan 29th! Kung Fu Fridays is back on the BIG screen! <div style="text-align: left;">
Back by popular demand! I've decided to resurrect my old film series and bring it back to a space that has been karmically good to me - The Royal Cinema aka The Golden Princess. This space used to be a Chinese cinema back in the 80s and is where I fell in love with Hong Kong cinema. I'd be the only white guy in the audience many a time. Then when it closed, I was able to rescue movie posters and prints. It later reopened as The Royal and I brought my monthly film series there in 2000. Thirteen years later I find myself in charge of the cinema's programming along with my wife <a href="http://katarinag.com/">Katarina</a>. Funny how life goes!</div>
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Found out that Sony has a DCP of Snake In The Eagle's Shadow, which was the first title I ever screened for what would later become known as "Kung Fu Fridays," so I decided to revisit a classic, 20 years later. </div>
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For more details, <a href="http://www.theroyal.to/films/kung-fu-fridays-snake-eagles-shadow/">The Royal's site</a> and the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/809901039156489/">Facebook Event</a>. </div>
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After an eight year hiatus, I brought back my film series Kung Fu Fridays to where it all started, The Royal. </div>
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Over the past year my wife <a href="http://katarinag.com/">Katarina</a> and I have been doing the public film programming at the 380 seat restored art deco cinema that was once a part of the Festival repertory cinema circuit. It has been an interesting journey working on bringing the profile of the cinema back up into relevance in a world where the public movie going experience is becoming an endangered phenomena. We've had some hits (<i>The Dance of Reality</i>) and misses (looking at you, <i>Kite</i>), but we've been recruiting a good audience base and have a great team working for us at the old movie palace. </div>
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After the encouragement of many friends and supporters, I decided to bring it back and tonight was the first screening - a rare 35mm print of <i>The Invincible Kung Fu Legs</i> aka <i>The Leg Fighters</i>. Back in the old days I relied on the newspaper that the Festival chain published that had a large circulation and did extensive wild postering by myself. I roamed the streets of Toronto late at night with a staple gun and a bucket of glue spreading the word. Needless to say, I had more free time and less adult responsibilities back then. This time around, I hit up the old email list, posted it on Facebook, made an event, and
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I have to say I was a little nervous before the screening and this was a feeling I don't get when I do the bigger event screenings at my film fest gigs. I suppose it is because there is more of a personal stake in this than with the other screenings.<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2-44vGvBdy4/VDizwoNEmYI/AAAAAAAAEHw/Wgs4MQlGvF0/s1600/10696246_10152823503844254_5760673986113270694_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>
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Well, I had
nothing to fear, because we had a decent turn out of around 70 people
and lots of familiar faces from back in the day! As the cinema relies on
digital projection nowadays, it was a little touch and go as the
projectionist was getting the print ready with the old 35mm projectors.
We had to hold opening the doors for around fifteen minutes, but when I
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commented that they'd been waiting for ten years, so they could wait a
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The film played like gangbusters, but honestly, <i>The Invincible Kung Fu Legs</i> is perfectly paced with good humour and stunning fights, so I knew the crowd would dig it. As I watched it and enjoyed their reaction, my mind raced with ideas on how to fix up the presentation and razzle dazzle of it all. More good stuff to come!<br />
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Next up - <i>Mr Vampire 3</i>!<br />
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Lau Kar Leung, Hong Kong filmmaker, actor, choreographer and martial artist, is one of the true pioneers of Hong Kong martial arts cinema, developing an idiosyncratic action style in the late seventies and early eighties that combined authentic traditional martial arts with an impeccable slapstick comic sensibility. In tribute to his passing, The Asian Institute and Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) will honour the late “Grandmaster”of martial arts cinema with a panel discussion and screening of two of his classic films, <i>8 DIAGRAM POLE FIGHTER</i> (1983) and <i>DIRTY HO</i> (1979)</div>
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In a jaw-dropping and nightmarish opening scene, seven brothers are ambushed. Only two manage to escape. The young Alexander Fu Sheng loses his mind and runs in a fury through the empty rooms of his family home. It is up to Gordon Liu to bear the responsibility... Tragically, the situation is not far from reality. The popular and renowned actor Alexander Fu Sheng was cast for the lead role, but died from a car accident on his way home from the shoot one day. He was only 28 years old. The script was then rewritten with small allusions to the sad event and reworked to be an homage to the charismatic superstar. Gordon Liu had to take the lead, and the respect for their late colleague pushed the entire cast and crew to give their best for this obscure masterpiece that deals with loyalty, fraternity and blood-thirsty revenge.</div>
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One of the great classics of martial arts cinema, Dirty Ho is a knockout roundhouse from Hong Kong's Lau Kar-leung. While the title has occasioned a thousand double takes, this is not a porn film. The titular Ho (Wong Yue) is a thief who runs afoul of high-living bon vivant Wang (Gordon Liu), who is in fact a Manchurian prince and martial arts expert in disguise. Because Wang cannot reveal his identity, he is forced to use 'stealth kung-fu', employing lethal fighting skills while maintaining the illusion of clumsiness. Full of action and high physical comedy, this is hugely entertaining viewing from one of the great masters of martial arts cinema.</div>
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Found this xerox for Jet Li's debut film <a href="http://www.hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=6335&display_set=eng"><i>Shaolin Temple</i></a> (1982) taped to a poster for the social issues drama by Allen Gong, <a href="http://www.hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=6531&display_set=eng"><i>Ah Ying</i></a> (1983). Back in the day when Jackie Chan was often referred to as "Jacky" Chan</div>
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<br />Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845482788512397608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20186865.post-82582467778016954342012-11-13T10:27:00.001-05:002012-11-13T10:27:36.524-05:00pocket photo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845482788512397608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20186865.post-90907175942443167292012-11-08T12:28:00.000-05:002012-11-08T12:28:02.607-05:00Friday Nov 9th! Toronto! John Woo's A BETTER TOMORROW - Free Screening! <div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>A BETTER TOMORROW</b><br />
Dir: John Woo<br />
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<i>If you don't know this movie, you don't know Hong
Kong cinema. A Better Tomorrow is a little gangster film that became
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smashing tour-de-force from John Woo that single-handedly changed Hong
Kong cinema forever. In other words, it's pretty damn good.</i> - <a href="http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews_2/better_tomorrow.htm">www.lovehkfilm.com<br /></a><br />
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Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845482788512397608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20186865.post-41748834738494605722012-08-07T10:32:00.002-04:002012-08-07T10:36:59.066-04:00Lin + WongNoticed this as I was folding my poster for <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_East_is_Red_%281993_film%29">The East is Red</a></i>.<br />
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<br />Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845482788512397608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20186865.post-60261416027572949862012-06-20T00:39:00.000-04:002012-06-20T00:53:43.754-04:00When Dustin Met Linda<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MoPoOPN3hho/T-FQrVF_-OI/AAAAAAAAAZA/izsiLaXUvls/s1600/dustin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="310" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MoPoOPN3hho/T-FQrVF_-OI/AAAAAAAAAZA/izsiLaXUvls/s400/dustin.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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Grab a couple tissues (Just in case. Just in case. Obviously <i>you</i> won't need them.) and read this <a href="http://tdn.com/news/local/for-longview-man-kung-fu-black-belt-comes-with-very/article_83d9dd3a-b687-11e1-afe0-0019bb2963f4.html">amazing story</a> about Bruce Lee's widow, Linda Lee Cadwell visiting Longview, DC black belt and Bruce Lee mega-fan, Dustin Bean.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05984455915564462035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20186865.post-72600621047586212112012-06-07T10:45:00.001-04:002012-06-07T10:45:09.702-04:00a nightmare of lust and revenge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Samurai in a haunted house? AND Susan George? When can I move in?Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845482788512397608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20186865.post-64047204274126303432012-03-05T10:38:00.001-05:002012-03-05T10:40:33.774-05:00Swapping the Blue Nun for the Golden NunHere is a poster I wish I had in my collection? Fun Taiwanese martial arts fantasy from 1977!<br />
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<br />Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845482788512397608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20186865.post-11212108298108548572012-03-04T18:04:00.000-05:002012-03-04T18:13:49.726-05:00Hong Kong Tram Ride 1967Found over at <a href="http://www.retronaut.co/2012/03/hong-kong-tram-ride-1967/">Retronaut</a>, a silent ride on a tram going through Causeway Bay, Wanchai, Central and Western. All aboard the way back machine!!!<br />
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<br />Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845482788512397608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20186865.post-76968241897824798882011-12-20T00:29:00.000-05:002011-12-20T00:29:01.558-05:00My eBay auctions for Dec 19th!Back with more auctions of doubles from my personal auctions. Got a couple are rarities in this lot. They might be a little pricier than some of my usual offerings, but these are so hard to find, I can't let them go at bargain basement prices. Stay tuned as there will be some steals in auctions to come. I have a wedding in January that I need to pay for, so stuff is going on the auction block!<br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(from The Toronto Star, December 26 1976)</span></b></i></div>Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845482788512397608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20186865.post-33321362326886668072011-12-16T15:03:00.002-05:002011-12-16T15:03:31.652-05:00new Jackie Chan film, but am I excited...?Not sure I can get excited by this. Looks like a rehash of fights from Dragons Forever and Armor of God 2... Zzzzzz
<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7eOln76YimU" width="560"></iframe>Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845482788512397608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20186865.post-85463944212631760472011-12-16T11:29:00.003-05:002011-12-16T11:29:43.308-05:00Keanu-FuFrom <a href="http://www.filmbiz.asia/">Film Business Asia</a> comes this news: <a href="http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/universal-boards-reeves-man-of-tai-chi?utm_source=fba&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly"><b>Universal boards Reeves' </b><i><b>Man of Tai Chi.</b><br /><br />Reeves will also appear in front of the camera, though the star will be Tiger CHEN 陳虎, a martial artist who previously worked on The Matrix with both Reeves and Village Roadshow.<br /><br />The contemporary, Beijing-set story is the "spiritual journey of a young martial artist (Tiger Chen), whose fighting skills brings him to a realm opportunities and painful choices."</i></a><br />
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Sounds curious and not passing any judgment on this one yet...<br />
<br />Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07845482788512397608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20186865.post-26800621233809599072011-12-09T08:57:00.005-05:002011-12-09T09:27:37.408-05:00Run Run Shaw Announces Retirement at Age 104<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tE3kH-IM8X8/TuIaT5nvADI/AAAAAAAAAVw/g9dj_-S22Ww/s1600/runrunshaw.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 326px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tE3kH-IM8X8/TuIaT5nvADI/AAAAAAAAAVw/g9dj_-S22Ww/s400/runrunshaw.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684134608882303026" /></a><br />Legendary producer, Run Run Shaw, co-founder of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVEWGINMtHc">Shaw Studios</a>, has announced that he will step down from his position of Chairman at TVB, Hong Kong's biggest television company (which he also co-founded) on December 31st.<br /><br />Shaw's contributions to film and television are nearly untouchable, and my love of film would most certainly be a much more pretentious and less enjoyable beast without his work. I'm beyond thankful for his films. If anyone deserves their retirement, it's him.<br /><br />ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR!!!<br /><br />Source: <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-08/run-run-shaw-to-retire-as-tvb-chief-at-age-104.html">Bloomberg.com</a>Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05984455915564462035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20186865.post-19913462343322573652011-12-08T18:31:00.001-05:002011-12-08T18:31:06.818-05:00Attention casting agents!Just found a bunch of photos that were scanned for my old film zine Asian Eye and there are some goodies in that folder. Like this one. AMAZING! The buddy cop film we never knew we needed...<br />
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