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7:00 pm
Swordsman II
Director: Ching Siu-Tong, Hong Kong, 1991, 35mm, 111min.
In the wonderfully high-flying, rampantly ambiguous Swordsman II, Jet Li stars as Warrior Ling, the naive swordsman doing battle against, and falling in love with, the gender-bending Fong the Invincible, played in male/female incarnations by the truly amazing Brigitte Lin. Swordsman II is pure pleasure, full of wild plot twists, yes, but the passion on display is remarkable as it is both taken quite seriously and, as embodied by top HK stars, is positively swoony.
9:00 pm
Eagle Shooting Heroes
Director: Jeff Lau, Hong Kong, 1993, 35 mm, 114 min.
A martial arts parody that just may be an example of straight camp, as it parodies, and resists the gender-bending fantasia of Hong Kong costume action films. Relentless silliness, with flying shoes and monsters and drum-driven centipedes and couplings of all sorts. Starring everybody: Maggie Cheung, Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung(s), Brigitte Lin, and more.
Scene from Eagle Shooting Heroes
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