Mystery Dojo: Surprise Kung Fu Matinees
The Nickel Cinema117-119 Clerkenwell Road, London
Sun 20 Sept · 15:30
About this event
Enter the 36 Chambers of Grindhouse Cinema, with these Sunday mystery martial-arts matinees that harken back to the glory days of 42nd Street. Expect deep-cut chopsocky plucked from the 70s and 80s screening on both digital and VHS - with bone-crushing bashers from the genre that mixed Chinese folklore and fantasy, spaghetti westerns, melodrama, Japanese samurai films and American genre cinema into an electrifying combo that inspired both the future of action films - and hip hop. These Kung Fu flicks became an international sensation in the 1970s, particularly at the Grindhouse cinemas that proliferated in impoverished inner-cities. Here were movies in which working-class heroes stood up to oppression, speaking loud and clear to the marginalised underclasses around the world. Bring the ruckus!
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A different kind of night
Not the same tradition as the lineage above — a genuinely different thread to pull, if you want one.