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Tag Archives: OSKFF
Review: Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters (Taiwan 1968)
Subway Cinema’s 10th Old School Kung Fu Festival 2023 “We are big strong men. Why should we worry about three little girls?” Oh, buddy, you should, you really should. This early Taiwanese wuxia about three separated sisters seeking revenge on the men … Continue reading
Review: The Swordsman of All Swordsmen (Taiwan 1968)
Subway Cinema’s 10th Old School Kung Fu Festival 2023 The first film in the loose Swordsman of All Swordsman trilogy could not be more different than the awesomely goofy Ghost Hill, it’s a deadly serious revenge film (Stock Wuxia Plot #4, kid … Continue reading
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Tagged 1968, OSKFF, Polly Shang-Kuan, Subway Cinema, Taiwan, Wuxia
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Review: The Ghost Hill (Taiwan 1971)
Subway Cinema’s 9th Old School Kung Fu Festival 2021 Well this was an unexpected pleasure. An absolutely buck wild wuxia full of delightful nonsense, crazy weapons, and traps. Harpoon hands. Darts in the shape of the Chinese character for “death” … Continue reading
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Review: The King of Wuxia (Taiwan 2022)
Subway Cinema’s 10th Old School Kung Fu Festival 2023 2023’s OSKFF (schedule here) is kicking off this Friday, April 14, with an absolute monster – Lin Jing-Jie’s massive, comprehensive documentary on King Hu, possibly the most influential and important Chinese … Continue reading
CSB talks with Goran Topalovic about the 10th Old School Kung Fu Festival in NYC, featuring the films of King Hu and Taiwanese Wuxia, starting this week
Goran Topalovic is a founding member of Subway Cinema, the NYC collective that created and launched the beloved New York Asian Film Festival and the Old School Kung Fu Festival, and has written extensively on Asian cinema for magazines like … Continue reading
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Tagged Joseph Kuo, King Hu, OSKFF, Subway Cinema, Taiwan, Wuxia
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