Dragon Inn (King Hu, 1967): Prince Charles Cinema, 3.25pm
This film (also screening January 8th) is part of the Wuxia Selectrospective at the Prince Charles Cinema. You can find the details of all the films here.
Chicago Reader review:
Moviegoers may be most familiar with this 1967 martial arts
classic as the feature being watched in a crumbling movie palace by an
assortment of lost souls in Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn
(2003). Here’s your chance to experience its pop grandeur
unadulterated, in a new digital restoration. During the Ming dynasty, a
wicked eunuch of the imperial court kills the defense minister and
orders the man’s grown son and daughter exiled to a remote outpost,
where assassins at the title inn await their arrival and a heroic
soldier traveling incognito hopes to save them. Director King Hu makes
kinetic use of the widescreen frame: the action is dominated by gonzo
knife throwing, and arrow fire has seldom felt so lethal. The balletic,
rhythmically thrilling swordplay and Hu’s novel employment of the
daughter as a fearsome combatant would strongly influence such
millennial martial-arts dramas as Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers (2004).
JR Jones
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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