Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
New York Asian Film Festival 2011
July 1 - 14, 2011
Tsui Hark will attend the screening.
A new print of the surreal and truly astonishing fantasy film that re-invented HK moviemaking. Still trippy after all these years.
Tsui Hark will attend the screening.
A mad whirl of glorious chaos, savage speed and eye-bursting fantasy like nothing you’ve ever seen before, the impact of Zu is hard to over-estimate. Imagine if lightning suddenly struck Hollywood and overnight and teleported it 20 years into the future. That’s what it did to the Hong Kong film industry. Determined to give martial arts movies Hollywood-calibre special effects and production values, young director Tsui Hark rounded up a massive budget, built huge sets and shanghaied Hollywood effects technicians from just-completed Star Trek: the Motion Picture and Star Wars and made a movie that dragged stuffy kung fu cinema kicking and screaming into the future with this frenetic whirlwind of special effects and screaming martial arts madness.
Part of The Wu Xia Focus.
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