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september
- 2015 to book go to:
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september
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Festival Director
Gráinne Humphreys
Volunteers Manager
Paul Donnelly
Guest Curator
Roger Garcia
Box Office Manager
Colm Carney
Projects Manager
Sarah Ahern
Accounts Officer
Kay Fitzsimmons
Production Manager
Liam Ryan
Festival Publicist
Kate Bowe PR
Fri 25th
Sept
Sat 26th
Sept
Sun 27th
Sept
Martial Arts
Demo
Duel to the Death
Light House 2
15.00
Righting
Wrongs
Light House 3
15.00
Once Upon a Time
in China II
Spooky
Encounters
The Young
master
Smithfield Square
16.30
Light House 1
20.15
/roger garcia Q+A
Light House 2
20.00
Light House 1
17.00
the way of
the dragon
Light House 1
19.00
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Welcome,
With thanks to the support of:
Funder
key partner
Venues
Director’s Foreward
DIFF Pix is a new initiative of the
Dublin International Film Festival
which creates innovative ways for
Irish audiences to engage with cinema
of the past. Building on the success
of last year’s Dublin’s Favourite Film
screening – we have partnered with
the Hong Kong Economic & Trade
Office, Brussels to bring a very special
season of the best of Hong Kong
cinema. An action packed season
curated by the Executive Director
of the Hong Kong International Film
Festival, Roger Garcia, who will join
us in Dublin and explain his choices
and discuss this season and new
developments in this fascinating and
rich film tradition.
The season features many familiar
names and faces, while also includes
a couple of cult hits and will appeal to
both the new and established fans of
this particular brand of cinema which
has such a huge impact worldwide.
As well as Roger’s talk, there will be a
exhibition of martial arts in Smithfield
Square supported by Dublin City
Council – which will bring this genre
film season onto the streets, literally.
I would like to thank our partners –
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office
Brussels, The Arts Council, Dublin City
Council and the Light House Cinema.
My colleagues Sarah Ahern, Liam
Ryan, our board of directors and you
the audience – I hope you enjoy this
early Autumn treat.
Don’t forget next years dates are the
18th-28th February 2016.
- Gráinne Humphreys
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Roger Garcia was born in Hong
Kong and educated in England.
He was director of the Hong Kong
International Film Festival in the late
1970s. He subsequently served as
programmer, consultant and juror on
many international film festivals in
the US, Europe and Asia.
The Hong Kong Economic and Trade
Office in Brussels (HKETO, Brussels) is
pleased to collaborate with the Dublin
International Film Festival to present
Hong Kong’s martial arts films to Irish
movie lovers. Hong Kong is famous
for its martial arts movies, or more
commonly known, Kung Fu movies.
DIFF PIX: Hong Kong Kicks showcases
a prime selection of martial arts movie
classics produced in Hong Kong over
the last few decades.
Introduction:
Hong Kong Economic and
Trade Office, Brussels
HKETO, Brussels is the official
representation of the Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region
Government to the European Union
and 15 European countries, including
Ireland.
Apart from promoting Hong Kong’s
economic and trade interests, we
are also keen to promote cultural
exchanges between Hong Kong
and Ireland. In this context, a
memorandum of understanding on
cultural cooperation between Ireland
and Hong Kong has been signed during
our Chief Secretary’s visit to Dublin in
May 2015.
Guest Curator:
Roger Garcia
Executive Director of the
Hong Kong International
Film Festival Society
As film critic his writings have been
published extensively by the British
Film Institute, Cahiers du Cinema, Film
Comment, Variety among others. His
books include studies on Hollywood
comedy; Asians in American Cinema;
Asian comedies; and Asian musicals.
His latest book is King Hu: In His Own
Words (2013).
Garcia has been executive director
of the Hong Kong International Film
Festival Society since 2010 and is
responsible for the film festival; the
Asian Film Awards Academy; Hong
Kong Asia Film Financing Forum
Project Market; among other activities.
See Roger Garcia’s talk after
Duel to the Death on Sat 26th
@ 15.00 in Light House 2.
We hope that DIFF PIX: Hong Kong
Kicks will further promote the
relations between Ireland and Hong
Kong. We welcome Irish friends to
come and see with their own eyes
Hong Kong’s lively city life and the
unique East meets West atmosphere.
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Fri 25th sept
Empty your mind, be formless.
Shapeless, like water. If you put
water into a cup, it becomes the
cup. You put water into a bottle
and it becomes the bottle. You
put it in a teapot, it becomes the
teapot. Now, water can flow or it
can crash. Be water, my friend.
- Bruce Lee
Martial
Arts Demo
Smithfield Square |
16.30 | Fri 25th Sept
45 minutes
For those who want
to get up close and
personal with the
real action, DIFF is
hosting a martial
arts demo in
Smithfield Square
with Sensei Scott
Langley and Hombu
Dojo Karate with
thanks to Dublin
City Council.
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About Hombu Dojo Karate: All martial arts originated
from China centuries ago. Through the complex
evolution, refinement and experimentation of the
first forms many traditions have been created,
Karate being one of them. At the Hombu Dojo, Dublin,
we teach Traditional Shotokan Karate. Our full
time instructors have competed and won at world
championships, lived and studied for many years in
Japan and now train full time at our purpose built dojo
in Dublin 6 and teach throughout South Dublin.
With over 500 members, the Hombu Dojo is the
headquarters of the World Traditional Karate
Organization (Ireland & Great Britain). Our group
has affiliated clubs throughout the UK and Ireland
and is the official representative of the international
karate governing body (WTKO) for the British Isles.
Scott Langley 6th Dan (Hombu Dojo Chief Instructor)
is the head of the WTKO Ireland & GB and teaches
throughout the world.
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Sat 26th sept
Once Upon
a Time in
China II
Light House 1 | 20.15 |
Fri 25th Sept |
113 minutes
Director: Hark Tsui
1992, Hong Kong
Cast: Jet Li, Rosamund
Kwan, Siu Chung Mok
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Jet Li reprises his role as the legendary Wong Fei-hung
for the second in the OUATIC series of films giving us
another genuinely charismatic performance along with
some outstanding martial arts displays. This time Feihung must face both the government and the dangerous
White Lotus cult who are opposed to anything western,
and this includes Aunt Yee (Rosamund Kwan) and her
dress sense! Continuing from where the original left
off we see Fei-hung and Aunt Yee’s impending romance
begin to blossom, which brings on some of the more
comical scenes in the film.
Director Tsui Hark gives us another excellent Wong
Fei-hung film, combining great storytelling with some
amazing visuals and superb renditions of the OUATIC
theme. Everything is then brought together with some
of the best action scenes committed to film. The major
‘wire-fu’ sequence is also excellent, here we see Jet
Li face off against his double from the first film in a
sequence which is so creative and well executed it just
puts Hollywood’s recent efforts to shame!
- Dave Foster
We learn martial arts as
helping weakness. You never
fight for people to get hurt.
You’re always helping people.
- Jackie Chan
Duel to
the Death
Light House 2 | 15.00 |
Sat 26th Sept |
86 minutes
Director: Siu-Tung
Ching, 1983, China
Cast: Norman TsuiKeung, Damian Lau,
Flora Cheung
This screening
is followed by a
discussion with Roger
Garcia from the Hong
Kong International
Film Festival.
Duel To The Death is one of the last old school Hong
Kong martial arts epics, made by Shaw Brothers at
the tail end of their golden age of production. Based
around a familiar rivalry between the respective
martial arts systems practiced by China and Japan.
At the heart of his film is the relationship between
Hashimoto, the Japanese fighter/ swordsman primed
for the betterment of his lord and country and the
young Chinese master, the Lord of the Sword Po
Ching-wan.
The relationship between the two contestants
gradually grows more complex but Hashimoto,
who eventually has to face the claims of competing
loyalties (orders from the Shogun and his own sense
of honour) has the most complicated set of decisions
to make and his final actions, which attempt to
reconcile two irreconcilable strands of tension,
provide the most arresting moments in the film.
- Richard Bowden
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Spooky
Encounters
Light House 2 | 20.00 |
Sat 26th Sept |
103 minutes
Director: Sammo KamBo Hung
1980, Hong Kong
Cast: Sammo Kam-Bo
Hung, Fat Chung, Lung
Chan
Spooky Encounters has a perfect balance of comedy,
action and horror - although the horror is very tame
and isn’t likely to cause any sleepless nights! The film
was a true ground-breaking mix of genre’s at the
original time of its release, so it’s a testament to its
high quality that many years later it has still never
been bettered.
The film has more original ideas than in a dozen
Hollywood films - the fight scenes throughout
growing increasingly inventive. The idea to feature a
fight where Cheung is attacked by a group of guards
as well as his own hand (!) is pure inspiration. And
it’s only one of many such scenes. Another highlight
being Cheung calling upon - and being possessed by
- the spirit of the Monkey King adds to what is one of
the most unique and satisfying finales in any martial
arts film.
- Martin Cleary
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Sun 27th sept
You can use martial arts
to tell a different story.
Ang Lee used martial arts in
‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’
to talk about love.
-Jet Li
Righting
Wrongs
Light House 3 | 15.00 |
Sun 27th Sept |
96 minutes
Director: Corey Yuen,
1986, Hong Kong
Cast: Biao Yuen,
Cynthia Rothrock,
Melvin Wong
Corey Yuen plays a Hong Kong attorney back from
a stint in the US, involved in prosecuting two mob
bosses for murder and drug trafficking. They walk
free when the lone witness and his family are killed
on their orders. Yuen decides to exact revenge and
goes renegade. He targets the gang’s members and
murders one of the bosses. Meanwhile, CID agent
Cindy Jones (Cynthia Rothrock) who investigates the
crime, suspects Yuen as the culprit and tails him. A
young neighbourhood kid (Fan Siu-wong) becomes
involved when he witnesses the murder of the other
boss and is targeted by the real killer.
Righting Wrongs is a standard revenge flick, light on
plot but marked by terrific action that picks up in the
second act when Cynthia Rothrock enters the film.
Yuen Biao and co-star Rothrock engage in several
amazingly complicated fights throughout. It’s a fine
vehicle for Yuen – perhaps his most famous film
without Sammo Kam-Bo Hung or Jackie Chan – but
Rothrock steals the show.
- Martin Cleary
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The Young
Master
Ching Loong (Jackie Chan), a young student suddenly
thrown into the limelight when his Red School elder,
Cheng Keung (Wei Pei), drops out of the annual Lion
Dance competition in Guangzhou.
The Way of
the Dragon
Light House 1 | 17.00 |
Sun 27th Sept |
101 minutes
As Ching stuggles against the representative of the
rival Blue School, he discovers that it is the debtladen Cheng. Ching tries to make Cheng turn over a
new leaf but his mission to clear Cheng’s name lands
him in hot soup when he is framed for a crime.
Light House 1 | 19.00 |
Sun 27th Sept |
90 minutes
Director: Jackie Chan,
1980, Hong Kong
Cast: Jackie Chan, Pai
Wei, Biao Yuen
Now the young master not only has the reputation
of Cheng and the school on his shoulders, he has to
prove his own innocence as well.
- HKIFF Programme Notes
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Director: Bruce Lee,
1972, Hong Kong
Cast: Bruce Lee
Nora Miao
Chuck Norris
Wei Ping Ao
Robert Wall
Wang Ing Sik
In Way of the Dragon, Bruce stars as Tang Lung, the
Hong Kong equivalent of a backwater hick, who is
plopped down in the middle of bustling Italy. In a
departure from his two previous HK roles, Lee is not
all business this time around: he smiles, jokes, laughs,
and generally mugs for the camera when he’s not
dealing out some martial justice.
Of course, everyone will want to check out the famous
Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris confrontation in the
Colosseum, and with good reason - it’s a stellar fight.
In fact, Bruce is able to even work in his own personal
philosophy of the martial arts during the battle.
If you’ll notice, Tang Lung only begins to beat the
American fighter Colt (Norris) when he abandons his
strictly Chinese style of fighting for something more
effective, a perfect example of Bruce Lee’s adopted
precept, Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless,
and add what is uniquely your own. What a movie!
- Calvin McMillin
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