An all-time favorite of Martin Scorsese, Luchino Visconti’s lavish masterpiece charts the fall of a noble family, with Burt Lancaster as an aging patriarch in 1860s Sicily amid the tumult of reunification.
“King Hu is truly the Zen master of wuxia filmmaking”—Reverse Shot
Considered the greatest martial-arts epic of all time, King Hu’s jaw-dropping masterpiece is a mystical tale of a female warrior (Hsu Feng) who must fight for her life when the corrupt Ming dynasty targets her entire family for extermination. The first Chinese film to win a prize at the Cannes Film Festival, A Touch of Zen is part wuxia film, part ghost story, and part metaphysical reflection on Buddhist philosophy. The story bursts off the screen with Hu’s knockout visual flourishes, including the unforgettable image of a gold-bleeding monk.
“King Hu is truly the Zen master of wuxia filmmaking”—Reverse Shot
UPCOMING Screenings
RUNNING TIME
200min
VENUE
FORMAT
DCP
LANGUAGE
In Mandarin with English subtitles
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