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September 24, 2018

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OCTOBER AT DORIS DUKE THEATRE IS A SHAW BROTHERS EXTRAVAGANZA

Schedule includes 30 restored Shaw Brothers films, a For Freedoms event and Lopaka Kapanui storytelling

HONOLULU, HAWAI‘I—This October, the Shaw Brothers will be taking over Doris Duke Theatre. The Shaw Brothers Retrospective is an almost month-long tribute to the Hong Kong film studio, which produced over 1,000 films and popularized the martial arts genre in the Western world, ultimately influencing contemporary American filmmakers and hip-hop artists. Over 30 recently restored films will be screened, including Five Deadly Venoms, One-Armed Swordsman and Golden Swallow.

The theatre will also be collaborating with the artist-run civic engagement platform For Freedoms for a free event called Home Free. Guests are invited to join in on a moderated conversation discussing homelessness and featuring leaders from homelessness communities across the state. The conversation will be preceded by a presentation of photographs taken by youth from Pu‘uhonua o Wai‘anae depicting the meaning of "home" and "freedom" from their perspective. The photo project is part of the Wolf & Woman Youth Art Program. The event is a part of For Freedoms' The 50 State Initative, a non-partisan, nationwide campaign that uses art as a means of inspiring broad civic participation.

As part of the Honolulu Printmakers sound()print series, which explores the spaces between print and sound culture, Vancouver-based ambient musician and sound artist Scott Morgan, aka Loscil, will perform a "deep listening" concert. His work will be based upon sounds he collects from a week-long "field study" in the Honolulu Printmakers studio.

Finally, with Halloween taking place during October, what would a theatre schedule look like without a ghostly event? Native Hawaiian storyteller Lopaka Kapanui will grace the Doris Duke Theatre stage for Lopaka Kapanui: Edge of Darkness. He will share ghost stories that will have audiences gripping the edges of their seats.

View full schedule below:

邵氏兄弟 Shaw Brothers Retrospective
October 5 – November 2, 2018
No foreign film studio has had an impact on American pop culture quite like the Shaw Brothers. The production company produced over 1,000 films during its run and popularized the martial arts genre, which continues to influence contemporary American filmmakers and hip-hop artists. Don’t miss your chance to see 30 recently restored films from the Shaw Brothers archives.

One-Armed Swordsman (獨臂刀)
Directed by Chang Cheh. 1967. Hong Kong. 116 min. Chinese with English subtitles.
Friday, October 5 at 1pm
In what would ultimately become the first in an iconic trilogy, One-Armed Swordsman broke the boundaries of the wuxia genre of films while also breaking box office records and propelling actor Jimmy Wang to stardom. Fang Kang (Jimmy Wang) was a student at the famed Gold Sword school before being cast out and de-armed by his master’s spoiled daughter (Angela Pan). During his recovery, Fang Kang manages to master a new form of one-armed swordplay—just in time to fight against the Golden School’s enemies.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOe4I3NSgQ8

Come Drink with Me (大醉俠)
Directed by King Hu. 1966. Hong Kong. 94 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Friday, October 5 at 7:30pm
In this collaboration with legendary Taiwanese director, King Hu, the Shaw Brothers’ Come Drink with Me set the standard for action choreography in the wuxia genre and directly influenced later films such as the popular Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Cheng Pei-Pei stars as Golden Swallow, a mysterious and talented fighter dispatched to save her government official brother from a group of thugs at a provincial inn. Don’t miss its sequel, Golden Swallow [link to page], also screening in the Shaw Brothers Retrospective.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4SMPQyiLy4

Golden Swallow (金燕子)
Directed by Chang Cheh. 1968. Hong Kong. 104 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Saturday, October 6 at 1pm
Cheng Pei-Pei reprises her role as the titular character from 1966’s Come Drink with Me [link to page]. In this new chapter, Golden Swallow seeks to clear her name from a string of recent murders while caught between the affections of two men.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-icLvb9g6zY

The Heroic Ones (十三太保)
Directed by Chang Cheh. 1970. Hong Kong. 121 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Saturday, October 6 at 4pm
In 1970, swordsmen and kung-fu aces swept through the Hong Kong film industry like never before, becoming the dominant trend and conquering the box office. No screen team was more triumphant than the “iron triangle” of director Chang Cheh and his protégés David Chiang and Ti Lung. The Heroic Ones is their quintessential historical epic, set during the waning years of the Tang Dynasty and centering on a royal family with thirteen sons. It is literally brother against brother as various factions scramble for control, with David Chiang and Ti Lung displaying their martial arts prowess as they battle insiders and outsiders. The Heroic Ones was a gigantic success in Hong Kong, far ahead of such Hollywood blockbusters as Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and Patton in that year’s box office sweepstakes.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30xugDTuOd8

King Boxer (天下第一拳)
Directed by Jeong Chang-hwa. 1972. Hong Kong. 97 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Saturday, October 6 at 7:30pm
Months before Bruce Lee burst into the international scene with Enter the Dragon, this powerful story of tragedy, torture, redemption, and revenge premiered across America under the unforgettable title Five Fingers of Death. Under that title, it went on to become the first international martial arts movie hit, and a perennial best-selling video. It made a continent-spanning star of Lo Lieh, and established the Shaw Brothers as the preeminent studio for high-quality action and adventure. Now, finally, after more than 30 years, the original King Boxer takes its rightful place as the film that started it all for the Western world. Not surprisingly, the tale of an honorable fighter's retraining in the "Iron Palm" style after corrupt invaders crush his hands remains as potent and exciting as when it premiered.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D28daSzPuJU

Vengeance (報仇)
Directed by Chang Cheh. 1970. Hong Kong. 98 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Tuesday, October 9 at 7:30pm
One of the top rated films of the year and an instant classic, Vengeance is so loaded with Shaw Brothers filmmaking royalty that even non-kung fu fans will be left breathless with amazement.. The action mayhem created by acclaimed martial arts instructors Tang Chia and Yuen Woo-ping's younger brother Yuen Cheung-yan (Charlie's Angels and The Matrix: Reloaded fight choreographer) gives David Chiang's hauntingly tense performance as the younger brother out to avenge his elder brother's death (Ti Lung) an even more mythical dimension. David Chiang won the Best Actor Award for his effort and Chang Cheh the Best Director Award at the 1970 Asian Film Festival.

The Duel (大決鬥)
Directed by Chang Cheh. 1971. Hong Kong. 105 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Wednesday, October 10 at 7:30pm
In the days before Bruce Lee became a superstar, the greatest heroes in Hong Kong cinema were not just one man, but two: the majestic Ti Lung and the charismatic David Chiang, who were made stars by Chang Cheh. The year after they exploded into superstardom in the director's landmark teen rebellion action film, Vengeance, they returned in this mano-a-mano classic. A wealthy man is murdered. An adopted son struggles with familial fears. A mysterious, charming streetwise knight-errant named "Rambler" always turns up in the nick of time. The two protagonists distrust each other until they survive a trial by fire (and fists). Then, side-by-side, they must face dozens of duplicitous killers from without and within. With the support of action choreographer Liu Chia-liang, this "Iron Triangle" of a director and his two stars creates another winner.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uUugwjaYcQ

Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (愛奴)
Directed by Chu Yuan. 1972. Hong Kong. 90 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Thursday, October 11 at 1pm
The most famous erotic film in the history of Hong Kong cinema, Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan shocked Chinese audiences in 1972, and exerts a raw power even today. Lily Ho, in her most daring role, is an aristocratic maiden abducted and sold to the Four Seasons Brothel. Quickly becoming the brothel's most desirable courtesan, she finds herself caught up in a web of sex, murder, and intrigue involving an official in the imperial court and a neurotic courtesan who harbors an unrequited love for her. All in all, it's pretty hot stuff handled with flair and style by noted director Chu Yuan.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Slp6jdu2DA

The Water Margin (水滸傳)
Directed by Chang Cheh. 1972. Hong Kong. 120 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Thursday, October 11 at 7:30pm
Director Chang Cheh returns to direct this ambitious adaptation of one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature, Water Margin (also known as Outlaws of the Marsh). Centered around a group of 108 outlaws in the Liangshan Marsh, the film follows the story of Lu Junyi, who joins the outlaws amid skirmishes with one of the their greatest enemies, the Shi Wengong.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ze1PXsKSCA

Blood Brothers (刺馬)
Directed by Chang Cheh. 1973. Hong Kong. 122 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Friday, October 12 at 1pm
Made at the peak of the martial arts film craze in the 1970s, Blood Brothers stands out against the run-of-the-mill kung fu flicks that flooded the market. It would be hard to find more legendary names in front of and behind the camera: director Chang Cheh, who virtually reinvented the genre; the brilliant martial arts choreography by Liu Chia-liang before he embarked on a directorial career; and the number one buddy team in kung-fu, Ti Lung and David Chiang, joined by Shaw Brothers newest superstar, Chen Kuan-tai. Set in the waning years of the Ching Dynasty, Blood Brothers tells of one of the most sensational scandals in Chinese history: the assassination of a provincial governor (Ti Lung) by his lieutenant and sworn brother (David Chiang). Ti Lung, in a complex role that allowed him to flex his thespian muscles, was honored with Golden Horse Award of Outstanding Performance.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFA2rAMTrl8

The Super Inframan (中國超人)
Directed by Hua Shan. 1975. Hong Kong. 84 min. Cantonese with English subtitles.
Friday, October 12 at 7:30pm
Imagine pint-sized Godzillas fighting comic book superheroes, have Shaw Brothers add in some kung fu choreography, and then you have The Super Inframan, one of the most far-out, fantastical films ever made. Starring the up-and-coming Danny Lee (who achieved international superstardom in John Woo's The Killer), the film pits Lee as the thunderbolt-fisted Inframan battling maniacal monsters from the Earth's center, lead by the evil Demon Princess (Terry Liu). Adding to the psychosis is the fast-paced fights choreographed by the acclaimed action director Tang Chia and beautiful camera work by He Lan-shan (Bruce Lee's cinematographer in The Way Of The Dragon).

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLlecrotn0Q

The Brave Archer (射鵰英雄傳)
Directed by Chang Cheh. 1977. Hong Kong. 127 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Saturday, October 13 at 4pm
In this film by Chang Cheh, the great international idol Alexander Fu Sheng stars as a wushu warrior who must learn the "18 Palms", the "Nine Secrets", and be taught by the "Seven Evils", to take vengeance on the man who killed his father—the Prince of the invading Chin Kingdom. With dazzling costumes, sets, and martial arts to fall back on, the director tests the mettle of future superstars Hui Ying-hung (soon-to-be My Young Auntie) and Kuo Chue, one of the most respected action choreographers in the world (with both Tomorrow Never Dies and Brotherhood Of The Wolf to his credit).

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_DbcyCVQLI

The 36^th Chamber of Shaolin (少林三十六房)
Directed by Lau Kar-leung. 1987. Hong Kong. 118 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Saturday, October 13 at 7:30pm
A landmark in the Shaw Brothers repertoire, The 36^th Chamber of Shaolin is considered to be one of the greatest kung fu films of all time having a big impact on multiple generations of hip-hop, including the RZA (who claimed to have watched the film over 300 times). The 36^th Chamber of Shaolin follows the trials and tribulations of Liu Yude, and later, San Te, as he embarks on a quest of Shaolin mastery to seek vengeance and liberation for his people against the Manchu government. Gordon Liu fully embodies the role of San Te, imbuing each punch, kick, and head-butt with the force and discipline of a dedicated Shaolin disciple, ultimately inspiring the Bride’s training sequence in Kill Bill 2.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e4HDsEJfro

The Mighty Peking Man (猩猩王)
Directed by Ho Meng-hua. 1977. Hong Kong. 90 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Sunday, October 14 at 1pm
King Kong comes to Hong Kong in The Mighty Peking Man, a uniquely Shaw Brothers spin on the ageless theme of beauty and the beast. The beast, seven stories high and hailing from the Himalayas, makes his way to the jungles of India in the wake of a violent earthquake. The beauty is Russian starlet Evelyne Kraft, a sexy blonde Tarzanette who is the Mighty Peking Man's best friend. Both are discovered by Danny Lee, a handsome young explorer who brings the odd couple back to Hong Kong, where Evelyne is almost raped and the monster runs amuck. Instead of the Empire State Building, the climax takes place at the Connaught Centre, then Hong Kong's tallest building. Plenty of action, stunning location shooting in India, and an interracial romance make this one of Shaw Brothers' most unique motion pictures.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjeHJETc_pI

Crippled Avengers (殘缺)
Directed by Chang Cheh. 1978. Hong Kong. 100 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Sunday, October 14 at 4pm
After the brutal murder of his wife and crippling of his son, Dao Tian-du (Chen Kuan Tai) turns evil and holds a town in thrall with the help of his sadistic son (Lu Feng). Four of the villain's crippled victims— a blind man (Kuo Chue), an amputee (Sun Chien), a deaf-mute (Lo Meng) and an insane fighter (Chiang Sheng)— seek the help of a wise kung fu master as they train to eliminate the tyrant for good.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-syy2hQXN3g

Five Deadly Venoms (五毒)
Directed by Chang Cheh. 1978. Hong Kong. 98 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Sunday, October 14 at 7pm
The most prolific kung fu director in Hong Kong martial arts cinema, Chang Cheh ushered in a new phase of his career and a new generation of action stars with The Five Venoms. The setting is ancient China's School of Five Venoms, named for its five types of kung fu based on five venomous animals: centipede, scorpion, serpent, toad and lizard. The school is notorious for the evil deeds of its disciples, leading to another classic battle between righteousness and depravity.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_QqI6QBdww

The Avenging Eagle (冷血十三鷹)
Directed by Sun Chung. 1978. Hong Kong. 90 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Tuesday, October 16 at 7:30pm
Avid international kung fu films fans have a special place in their hearts for this outstanding martial arts drama, which marked the ascension of director Sun Chung and action choreographer Tang Chia to legendary status. Everything is exceptional in this endlessly entertaining production: from the cinematography of Lan Nei-tsai, to the script by Shaw Brothers' writing wizard Ni Kuang, to the editing of Chiang Hsing-loong and Yu Hsiao-feng, which deservedly won the Golden Horse Award.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__NFC1JXk3Q

Human Lanterns (人皮燈籠)
Directed by Sun Chung. 1982. Hong Kong. 95 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Thursday, October 18 at 1pm
Part horror, part kung fu, 100 percent outrageous, Human Lanterns has a special place in the cult film hall of fame. Some of Hong Kong’s martial arts movies’ biggest enter the twilight zone in this over-the-top bloodfest, which has Lo Lieh as an insane swordsman who comes up with a unique way to avenge past humiliations. He opens a lantern workshop with the lampshades made from the beautiful hides of his enemies' sisters, courtesans, and wives. Liu Yung steps down from the Emperor roles that made him famous to play a deliciously evil bad guy, and Chen Kuan-tai matches him in pride and power-lust. Lust of another kind is supplied by Tanny Tien Ni and Linda Chu, two ladies whose beautiful skin proves to be a most unwelcome asset.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96YQR1n6ycY

Dirty Ho (爛頭何)
Directed by Liu Chia Liang. 1979. Hong Kong. 104 min. Cantonese with English subtitles.
Sunday, October 21 at 7pm
Master martial arts moviemaker Liu Chia-liang wanted to make a movie about Chinese royalty's relation to the common people. He accomplished it with one of the greatest kung fu adventures ever made, incorporating at least three of the most brilliantly conceived and executed fight sequences ever caught on film. Wang Yu is the streetwise title character while the director's adopted brother, Gordon Liu Chia-hui, plays an incognito prince who uses Ho as a dupe to try avoiding court intrigue. Combining laughs and thrills, the monumental director adds to his legend with a film that only gets more impressive with each successive viewing.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E-nkSbV8Sg
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Mad Monkey Kung Fu (瘋猴)
Directed by Lau Kar-leung. 1979. Hong Kong. 109 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Tuesday, October 23 at 7:30pm
Besides his pioneering films based on authentic martial artistry and kung fu comedies during the 1970's, acclaimed director Liu Chia-liang also embraced the master/pupil relationship to form the cornerstone of many of his other. Besides directing Mad Monkey Kung Fu, it's also Liu's debut as a lead actor playing down-and-out monkey kung fu master Chen, crippled by the ruthless villain Tuen (Shaw's penultimate bad guy Lo Lieh). Street boy Hsiao Hou (which means "little monkey" and played by popular martial arts aerialist Hsiao Hao) convinces Chen to teach him monkey kung fu to avenge Chen's shame. The wacky training sequences and outlandish finale fight leave you stupefied.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3UXdlbrcFk

Masked Avengers (叉手)
Directed by Chang Cheh. 1981. Hong Kong. 92 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Thursday, October 25 at 1pm
The "godfather of the kung fu film" Chang Cheh, started a winning streak by making the internationally renowned The Five Venoms. He followed that hit with many more high-flying "bloody good" entertainments featuring the same cast in new roles. But of all the “Venom” movies, this one stands out as perhaps the most chilling. Masked killers are wreaking havoc and instilling terror with their vicious weapons of choice: razor-sharp, gut-shattering tridents. Only three fearless fighters dare investigate, leading to mass murder and magnificent martial arts. Chien Hsiao-hou, future co-star of Yuen Woo-ping's The Tai-chi Master joins the trio to get tri-pierced. The core Venoms themselves handle the intricate, always impressive, sometimes awe-inspiring, choreography in this unforgettable exercise in "grand guignol gung-fu."

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So2nBT4COlk

Buddha’s Palm (如來神掌)
Directed by Taylor Wong. 1982. Hong Kong. 93 min Mandarin and Cantonese with English subtitles.
Thursday, October 25 at 7:30pm
In the arsenal of classic martial arts secret weapons, there is none more lethal than the Buddha's Palm, a technique by which an ordinary hand is transformed into a formidable force. Ku, a blind recluse living in a cave, knows its secret, which attracts all kinds of mayhem, from giant birds to magic pearls, miraculous orchids, and a wide array of good and evil knights. Thus is the enchanted world of Buddha's Palm, a top Shaw Brothers action hit of 1982, and a movie that stands at the cutting edge between the modern and post-modern eras of Hong Kong martial arts cinema (complete with laser swords!) Derek Yee excels in the role of a scarred swordsman who learns the secret of the Buddha's Palm, with Alex Man Chi-leung as his blind mentor. Hui Ying-hung, first winner of the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress, and Yu An-an are on hand to demonstrate just what a woman's touch can accomplish.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xChArcx5_M4

Legendary Weapons of China (十八般武藝)
Directed by Lau Kar-Leung. 1982. Hong Kong. 109 min. Cantonese with English subtitles.
Friday, October 26 at 1pm
In the premiere, groundbreaking book on the genre, Martial Arts Movies, author Ric Meyers called Legendary Weapons of China “the quintessential martial arts movie” and perhaps the greatest kung fu movie ever made. Showing prescience customary with this visionary, the plot revolved around early 20th century pugilists vainly attempting to find a kung fu that could defeat the bullet … years before the same theme would be used in Once Upon A Time In China. It also features the rarely dramatized magician-spies of China, who would ultimately inspire the Japanese ninja. But most importantly, it is a beautifully made action comedy featuring international fan favorite Alexander Fu Sheng and supremely brilliant kung fu.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhuvtleL4JA

Shaolin Temple (少林寺)
Directed by Chang Cheh. 1976. Hong Kong. 126 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Sunday, October 28 at 7pm
There is no place more hallowed in the world of martial arts than China's Shaolin Temple, birthplace of a special brand of kung fu developed centuries ago by monks opposed to the Manchu rulers of the Ching Dynasty. A special place deserves a special epic, which is precisely what martial arts maestro Chang Cheh delivers in the aptly named, action-packed Shaolin Temple. It is a battle between a brave brand of Shaolin boxers and literally thousands of Ching troops, complete with betrayals, intrigues, and novel fighting machines such as 108 wooden robots. The human fighting machines prove just as lethal thanks to a cast that includes such legendary kungnfu stars as Ti Lung, David Chiang, and Alexander Fu Sheng.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHlaX3-liTI

The Boxer’s Omen (魔)
Directed by Kuei Chih-Hung. 1983. Hong Kong. 105 min. Mandarin with English subtitles.
Tuesday, October 30 at 7:30pm
After suffering an injury in the ring, embattled boxer Zhen Wei enlists the aid of his brother, Zhen Xiong, to avenge him and find the key to an omen which may release their family from an ancient curse. Black wizards, Taoist monks, rampaging monsters, spooky apparitions, beastly crocodile skeletons, flying human heads, a sexy female zombie with long talons, and demonic bats lie in store for our hero, whose trials form one of the most outrageous, horrific, dazzling spectacles in action-horror history. You've never seen anything like it!

Black Magic 2 (勾魂降頭)
Directed by Ho Meng Hua. 1976. Hong Kong. Mandarin with English subtitles.

Wednesday, October 31 at 7:30pm
Spend Halloween at the theatre with a zombie film like no other! Martial arts hero Ti Lung gets to flex his dramatic muscle in this horror movie about evil magic spells. In a departure from his normal roles, Ti plays Hsu Lo, who runs up against evil black magic practitioner San Kan-mi (Ku Feng). San Kan-mi wants to seduce Hsu's fiancee Wang Chu-ying (Lily Li) and places a death spell on Hsu and a love spell on Wang, hoping to kill two birds with one stone. Matters are further complicated when sexy widow Lo Yin (Tanny Tien Ni) casts her lascivious eyes on the tall and handsome Hsu. Fortunately for the spellbound lovers, Wang's friends manage to find another veteran witch doctor to take on the evil San Kan-mi. Supernatural battles of epic proportions ensue as this bone-chilling tale of good versus evil races to a heart-stopping ending.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CnoZJ9JltY

Bastard Swordsman (天蠶變)
Directed by Chin-Ku Lu. 1983. Hong Kong. Cantonese with English subtitles.
Thursday, November 1 at 1pm
Actor Lu Chun-ku really hit his stride as a director of mystical kung-fu epics with Holy Flame Of The Martial World and this— truly one of the best of its kind. Hsu Shao-chiang stars as a put-upon illegitimate son of a "Martial Arts World" master, who nearly sacrifices all to learn the "Silkworm Style" -- making him a veritable "Spider-Swordsman"! That's just the pay-off to this eye-filling, mind-bending kung fu phantasmagorical, which elicited cries of joyous disbelief in virtually all the cinemas where it was shown.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYykcbuJkBU

Holy Flame of the Martial World (武林聖火令)
Directed by Chin-Ku Lu. 1983. Hong Kong. 85 min. Cantonese with English subtitles.
Thursday, November 1 at 7:30pm
This magnificent "Martial Arts World" epic marked the true arrival of actor/producer/writer/director Lu Chun-ku. Although he made popular action films such as The Master and Ambitious Kung Fu Girl, it was with this eye-filling epic (which he co-wrote as well as directed) that Chin-Ku Lu really hit his stride. Kuo Chue both co-stars and choreographs this impressive tale of a brother and sister taking revenge for the death of their parents through the mythical yin/yang Holy Flame technique. This showcase for Kuo's skills led to a vaunted "action director" career with the cult classic Brotherhood of the Wolf to his credit. Mok Siu-chung, soon to co-star in many of the celebrated Once Upon A Time In China films, plays the noble son confronting danger and duplicity at every turn.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke-9n2xcUiY

Martial Arts of Shaolin (南北少林)
Directed by Lau Kar-leung. 1986. Hong Kong. 89 min. Mandarin and Cantonese with English subtitles.
Friday, November 2 at 1pm
Jet li and the Shaw Brothers combine in this latter entry of Shaolin films by the studio. Also known as Shaolin Temple 3, this film tells the story of a young Shaolin monk who runs away from the temple to assassinate a despotic ruler and avenge the murders of his parents.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3GBFWXx5lc

The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (五郎八卦棍)
Directed by Lau Kar-leung. 1983. Hong Kong. 98 min. Cantonese with English subtitles.
Friday, November 2 at 7:30pm
What started as masterful kung fu filmmaker Liu Chia-liang's homage to the heroic Song Dynasty Yang family became an angry, even savage, rumination on heroic sacrifice when international idol Alexander Fu Sheng died in a car accident midway through production. Fu's death was not only tragic because he was such a close friend, but because the role he was playing was one of only two survivors of an ignominious betrayal by a jealous General. Knowing that he had to immortalize Fu's final, unfinished performance, Liu carried on, having co-star Hui Ying-hung step into the action. The finished film is unique in the director's extraordinary filmography for the intensity and power of its emotions and kung fu. There are heartbreaking references to the tragedy throughout, but the climax is truly unforgettable as the other family survivor, now a Shaolin-trained warrior, faces his betrayers amid a pyramid of coffins.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATQZnWXIuk8

Loscil in Concert
Sunday October 21 at 2 pm
$20 general; $15 members and students
Presented in collaboration with Honolulu Printmakers
Vancouver-based ambient musician and sound artist Scott Morgan, aka Loscil, will perform a “deep-listening” concert featuring a new electronic composition—the results of his sound()print residency in the Honolulu Printmakers studio in October 2018.

As part of the Honolulu Printmakers sound()print series, which explores the spaces between print and sound culture, Morgan will conduct a week long “field study” on the Honolulu Printmakers studio, with the goal of collecting material with which to transform how the equipment and the environment are experienced and perceived. Working in collaboration with and parallel to studio users, and using microphones, field recorders, and contact mics, Morgan will harvest sounds from the space, digitally transform them, and assemble them into a library of sonic material that will be further arranged into a musical composition. Working in a feedback look with print artists, the studio activity that occurs during and which informs Morgan’s process will form the contents of a portfolio which will house a recorded document of the completed work.

About Loscil
Loscil is the electronic music project of Vancouver-based composer Scott Morgan. Morgan’s background as a drummer and guitarist in Vancouver’s independent music scene, as well as his academic composition studies at Simon Fraser University, culminated in the creation of Loscil in the late 1990s. At SFU, Morgan studied music and communications, working on the Vancouver
Soundscape Project and learning real time granular synthesis from computer music pioneer Barry Truax. The name Loscil is taken from the “looping oscillator” function of the computer music language Csound. For several years, Morgan was the drummer of Vancouver indie band Destroyer.

About sound()print
sound()print is a series of programming presented by Honolulu Printmakers in Fall 2018 that revolves around symbioses of sound and print and seeks to position print culture as a vehicle for intermedia exchange and collaboration. sound()print asks the question: what lies in the spaces between sound and print? sound()print considers such dialectical pairings as: musicians and sound artists who make prints; printmakers who make sound; prints made in response to music or sound; print cultures surrounding music (e.g. music packaging and ephemera); the noise made by printmakers and their technologies; and parallels between recording and printing. sound()print is designed to complement the 2018 Honolulu Print & Book Fair, with which it shares a theme.

The goal of sound()print is to create and model the conditions that catalyze intermedia thinking and action in the spaces between and around print and sound culture; as well as to provide a scaffold for community building, content creation, and critical discourse. The project aligns with the central mission of the Honolulu Printmakers to promote and provide access points to print culture in Hawaii through innovative education and outreach.

Student discount will apply at the theatre box office with a valid student I.D.

Alexis Rockman in The Green Room
Wednesday, October 24 at 7pm
$15 general admission, $12 museum member
In this co-presentation with The Merwin Conservancy, the museum presents an intimate evening with renowned painter Alexis Rockman in The Green Room, an environmental and literary salon series that fosters a reverence for language, nature, and imagination in our community. Inspired by 19th–century landscape painting, science fiction film, and firsthand field study, Rockman’s paintings proffer a vision of the natural world that is equal parts fantasy and empirical fact. The event begins at 7:00pm in the Doris Duke Theatre with doors opening at 6:30pm. Tickets are $20 per person, with a $15 rate for museum members. Rockman will make a stage presentation of a selection of his visual works, followed by a book signing at a courtyard reception with refreshments and book fair.

About Alexis Rockman
Alexis Rockman has exhibited extensively worldwide since 1985. He has been featured in a number of solo museum exhibitions including Dioramas at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (1996); Alexis Rockman: A Recent History of the World at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield (1999); Manifest Destiny at the Brooklyn Museum (2005; traveling to the Rhode Island School of Design; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; Grand Arts, Kansas City); and a mid career survey Alexis Rockman A Fable for Tomorrow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC (2010; traveling to the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus); Alexis Rockman: The Weight of Air at the Rose Art Museum. East End Field Drawings at the Parrish Museum of Art in Water Mill, NY ( 2015). The Great Lakes Cycle, Grand Rapids Art Museum; Chicago Cultural Center; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; Flint Institute of Art, MI; The Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2018-20) His work is represented in public and private collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.

From 2009-12, Rockman collaborated with director Ang Lee on the prize-winning film "Life of Pi," serving as “Inspirational Artist” preparing conceptual drawings to serve as visual reference. He has been the subject of many exhibition catalogues and monographic publications including Alexis Rockman, published by Monacelli Press in 2003. Rockman lives and works in New York City.

This evening is generously supported by Halekulani Hotel and Atherton Family Foundation.

For Freedoms - Home Free
Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 1pm
Free admission
Join us for a moderated conversation discussing current issues of homelessness and featuring community leaders from various houseless communities across the state. Despite "homelessness" being a prevalent talking point in political debates, the voices from the houseless communities are rarely, if ever, included in the discussion of their own future. Leading up to the 2018 midterm elections, this event amplifies voices from the houseless communities so that the public can listen and learn from their perspective. The conversation will explore questions such as: What actions and plans would the houseless communities like to see from their state representatives? What type of future do the houseless communities envision for themselves? How are misconceptions of houselessness perpetuated in our media? What does freedom mean from the houseless perspective? The conversation will be preceded by a presentation of photographs taken by houseless youth depicting the meaning of "home" and "freedom" from their perspective.

The 50 State Initiative is a non-partisan, nationwide campaign to use art as a means of inspiring broad civic participation. It is a national network of concurrent decentralized public events across the country that reflect a multiplicity of voices and spark a national dialogue about art, education, commerce, and politics. Along the way, we aim to build a network of artists, arts institutions and civic leaders and to map and connect the cultural and artistic infrastructure in the United States.

For Freedoms is a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the US. Founded in January 2016, For Freedoms aims to engage artists, policy makers, and the public in the exploration of how creativity and action can combine to form a more perfect union. We seek to use art to encourage and deepen public discussions of pressing civic issues and core democratic values, inspired by American artist Norman Rockwell’s paintings of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms (1941)—freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. We aim to be a hub forother artists, arts institutions, and activists who desire to be more engaged with the current political system in each of the 50 states. We have developed a toolkit for partners who would like to engage in local activities to explore what freedom in the 21st century looks like.

Lopaka Kapanui: Edge of Darkness
Saturday October 27 at 7:30pm
$15 general admission, $12 museum member
Locked away in Lopaka Kapanui’s repertoire is a collection of ghost stories that bring you right to the edge of darkness. Prepare yourself for stories that come to life in the dark recesses of your mind and never leave. In celebration of Halloween, don’t miss the chance to hear legends never revealed until now.—they've been locked away for a reason.

About Lopaka Kapanui
Lopaka Kapanui is a native Hawaiian storyteller, writer, actor, kumu hula, cultural practitioner, former professional wrestler, husband, father and grandpa. Lopaka has been hailed by the Honolulu newspapers as one of Hawai'i's foremost storytellers, sharing tales of between-world spirits and Hawaiian mythology to anyone who'll listen. For more than a decade, he has led after-dark ghost tours around the island of Oahu. Having been in the storytelling business for more than twenty years, hundreds of people have come forward to share their own stories with him, making him a repository for some of our islands' spookiest tales. Sharing more than just Hawaiian ghost stories, Lopaka shares his knowledge of the history and legends of 'O'ahu and Hawai'i. With his theatrical, mesmerizing style, he gives fascinating glimpses into Hawaiian spirituality.

Lecture: King Scorpion: A Phonetic Zoo-The Origins Of Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing
Thursday, October 18 at 7:30pm
Free and open to the public
Lecturers: John Darnell (Yale University) and Colleen Darnell (University of Hartford)

In May 2017, the Elkab Desert Survey Project (of Yale University and the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels) discovered the earliest monumental hieroglyphic inscription at the site of El Khawy, just north of the ancient city of Elkab. High on a cliff face along an ancient road, this ancient “billboard” is an undeniable expression of power by an early Upper Egyptian ruler, quite possibly King Scorpion, whose tomb at Abydos (ca. 3250 BCE) contained the other earliest datable proto-hieroglyphic texts. In combination with Predynastic rock art of the fourth millennium BCE in the Eastern and Western deserts of Egypt and Nubia (including several important tableaux also discovered by the Elkab Desert Survey Project), the El Khawy site offers an unparalleled glimpse into the “phonetic zoo” of hieroglyphic writing—the process by which the
symbolic world of Predynastic animal imagery became the nascent script of pharaonic Egypt.

Sponsored by Archaeological Institute of America, LLEA University of Hawai‘i.

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Film admission: $12 general admission; $10 museum members; free for children 18 and under

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About the Honolulu Museum of Art
One of the world’s premier art museums, the Honolulu Museum of Art presents international caliber special exhibitions and features a collection that includes Hokusai, van Gogh, Gauguin, Monet, Picasso and Warhol, as well as traditional Asian and Hawaiian art. Located in two of Honolulu’s most beautiful buildings, visitors enjoy two cafés, gardens, and films and concerts at the theater. The museum is dedicated to bringing together great art and people to create a more harmonious, adaptable, and enjoyable society in Hawai‘i.

Locations:

Honolulu Museum of Art: 900 S. Beretania Street
Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House: 2411 Makiki Heights Drive
Honolulu Museum of Art School: 1111 Victoria Street
Honolulu Museum of Art at First Hawaiian Center: 999 Bishop Street
Honolulu Museum of Art Doris Duke Theatre: 901 Kinau Street (at rear of museum)

Website: www.honolulumuseum.org

Phone: 808-532-8700

Hours:

Honolulu Museum of Art: Tues–Sun 10 am–4:30pm; closed Monday.

Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House: Tues–Sun 10am–4pm; closed Monday.

Admission (permits entry to both museums on the same day):

$20 general admission; $10 Hawai‘i residents and active duty military living in Hawai‘i; children 18 and under are free.

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