Friday, April 10, 2015

Old School Kung Fu fest presents Ninjas


Next Thursday is Subway Cinema’s Old School Kung Fu Fest focusing on ninja films. The Fest runs next Thursday through Sunday at the Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan.

The selection of films is incredible and there really isn’t a bad one in the lot- I own all but two and I’ve seen all but one. Yea- you want to go to this

Here’s the press release with all the info on the series.

SUBWAY CINEMA and ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES

proudly unleash

400 years of sudden death will be at

THE OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU FEST 2015:

ENTER THE NINJAS!
April 16 - 19, 2015

at Anthology Film Archives

Web:http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org

New York, NY,- The Old School Kung Fu Fest, a four-day celebration of the rarest, wildest, and most incredible martial arts and action cinema from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s is back at the Anthology Film Archives for its 5th edition, which is dedicated to the deadliest fighter of them all...the ninja!

Since the dawn of time, man’s natural predator has been the ninja. Hiding in your shower, crouching behind your laptop, clinging to your back — the ninja is everywhere. What killed the dinosaurs? Ninja. What battles great white shark? Ninja. Who is buying flowers for your mom? Probably ninja. But ninja is not vampire! Ninja can be filmed! This year’s Old School Kung Fu Fest examines this crazy natural phenomena of ninja with 14 movies that show you this sneaky fighter in the only place where he cannot shoot throwing stars into your eyes: on the movie screen!

There are serious black-and-white ninjas in the original ninja films Shinobi No Mono Parts 1 & 2 (1962 and 1963), super-noir ninjas in 1965’s Samurai Spy, party-colored crazy ninjas from the go-go 80s like American Ninja 1 & 2 and then be entered, revenged, and dominated by Cannon’s essential ninja trilogy: Enter the Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja, and Ninja III: The Domination. Watch brave Chinese people fight ninjas with their guts in Shaw Brothers movies like Five Element Ninjas! See ninjas fly on kites in Duel to the Death! You must see all the ninjas! Because to fight ninja, first you must understand ninja.

The Old School Kung Fu Fest 2015: Enter the Ninjas! is curated by Subway Cinema’s programming team, consisting of Samuel Jamier, Rufus de Rham, and Goran Topalovic

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