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Event Details
July 26, 2015
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Meyer Auditorium (Freer Gallery of Art)
1050 Independence Avenue
Southwest
Washington, DC 20560
United States

Festival - Washington, DC

Hong Kong Film Festival: "Martial Club"

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Followed by a Chinese Lion Dance performed by the Wong People Kung Fu Association, and a demonstration and discussion with martial arts masters Dennis Brown, Oso Tayari Casel, Vincent Lyn, Bobby Samuels, and Ron Wheeler, moderated by producer and martial artist Bey Logan.
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This “pure, unfiltered example of the classic kung fu movie” (Mark Pollard, Kung Fu Cinema) about a rivalry between two kung fu schools stars Gordon Liu as the legendary hero Wong Fei-hung. The film’s fight scenes, with their fidelity to classic martial arts technique and etiquette, make it the perfect lead-in to a cross-cultural discussion of movies and martial arts. (Dir.: Lau Kar Leung, Hong Kong, 1981, 110 min., Digibeta, Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles)