Sundays on Fire III: A New Beginning!
Now extended until the END OF 2025 for your viewing enjoyment, on the second Sunday of every month, at high noon, Subway Cinema teams up with the Nitehawk Prospect Park to deliver a 35mm print of a Hong Kong classic. We don’t tell you the title until it appears on the screen, but 2025’s line-up is all killer, no filler. We’re live-subtitling some prints with new translations specially made for this series, and we’re showing several stone cold classics that never play anywhere. We don’t know how we got these prints either! Next up…
Sunday, 2/9 @ 12pm
This month we’re screening the most important Chinese fantasy film ever made, period, full stop. This mad whirl of whip-fast wirework, weaponized opticals, eye-melting make-up, opulent sets, and spectacular stunts has one purpose: to bring China’s dankest legend to life. Featuring a cast of Hong Kong’s biggest stars puppet-mastered by its most innovative director, it’s the kind of ground-breaking, earth-shaking, hand-made fantasy epic no one dares to even attempt anymore and it almost bankrupted the studio behind it. It also created (yes – created) the entire Hong Kong special effects industry. But more than a mere technical achievement, more than a volcano of creative energy, this movie is plea for the new generation to step up and take their place in a dying and corrupt world, and fight for the kind of justice that the older generation has abandoned.