Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: The Cinema of Patrick Lung Kong

August 15-24, 2014 at Museum of the Moving Image
co-presented with the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office New York

A visionary Hong Kong director, Patrick Lung Kong, who made his first film nearly 50 years ago, had a profound impact on following generations of filmmakers, including John Woo and Tsui Hark. Portraying oft-neglected social realities with unflinching fervor, and with formal inventiveness, he drew on the rich traditions of Cantonese cinema while bringing new social dimensions to genre filmmaking. In addition to the fourteen feature films he wrote and directed between 1966 and 1979, Lung Kong acted in 60 films between 1958 and 2002—a prolific career that began at the Shaw Brothers Studios (then Shaw & Sons) and carried over into his own filmmaking. Though scarcely shown outside of Hong Kong today, he endures as one of the most original and uncompromising auteurs Hong Kong has ever produced. This program—consisting of eight features that he directed and one he produced—is a celebration of the life and achievements of Lung Kong.

Films
A BETTER TOMORROW (1986)
HIROSHIMA 28 (1976)
LOVE MASSACRE (1981)
MITRA (1977)
PEI SHIH (1972)
THE STORY OF A DISCHARGED PRISONER (1967)
TEDDY GIRLS (1969)
THE WINDOW (1968)
YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW (1970)

Links

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: The Cinema of Patrick Lung Kong (at MoMI)

Hong Kong Gardener (ARTFORUM, August 12, 2014)

Video tribute from John Woo to Patrick Lung Kong (August 15, 2014)

The Man who Put Prostitutes and Hiroshima in Hong Kong Movies (WNYC, August 16, 2014)

Kaiju Shakedown: Patrick Lung Kong (August 23, 2014)

“Burn That Film! Burn It!” Tsui Hark and Patrick Lung Kong on A Better Tomorrow (Filmmaker Magazine, August 19)