Subway Cinema's next SUNDAYS ON FIRE screening will be on Sunday, October 9th

Subway Cinema
Presents 

Sundays On Fire: Secret Hong Kong 35mm Feature
When: Sunday, October 9, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Where: Nitehawk Cinema
188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY

 

The second Sunday of every month sees Subway Cinema take over the Nitehawk Cinema to unleash an action classic from the golden days of Hong Kong cinema but this time they're jumping to the year 2000 and going maximum Y2K by emptying a full clip of Millennial Mayhem directly into your face. The title will not be revealed until it appears onscreen because it’s more fun that way, but know that this is one of Hong Kong’s most pioneering directors delivering a modern day action classic that rewrote the rules of cinema in a movie that stands as a monument to what might have been if anyone else had been brave enough to make the same warp speed jump so many light years ahead.

If that makes it sound like a sci-fi flick, you’re not far off. Even though it’s set in contemporary Hong Kong the city is shot like an alien landscape, there is so much running up walls, across ceilings, and down the sides of buildings the rules of physics seem to be suspended, and the cast are a multi-culti, polyglot crew of miraculous mutants whose luminous faces will get burned into your brains. No one ever screens this movie anymore, so this 35mm, subtitled print is our Halloween treat to you.

Subway Cinema's next SUNDAYS ON FIRE screening will be on Sunday, September 11th

Subway Cinema
Presents 

Sundays On Fire: Secret Hong Kong 35mm Feature
When: Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Where: Nitehawk Cinema
188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY

Tickets

On Sunday, September 11th, Subway Cinema will present a brand new SUNDAY ON FIRE, an amazing 35mm print of a Wong Jing movie. If you don't know Wong Jing, this is your chance to meet Hong Kong's evil genius of bad taste, the director who's been serving up slapdash, surreal, bizarre blockbusters since the '80s. Wong has his finger on the pulse of the Hong Kong audience and his movies are exuberantly over-the-top, cranked out fast, full of dumb jokes, bloody carnage, and surplus explosions, and this one's no different.

An action-packed takedown of one of the biggest action stars in the world, starring one of the biggest action stars in the world, this flick is like Die Hard turned up to 11, featuring top-notch action choreography, super-stupid slapstick, oblique in-jokes, a bunch of stars, and plenty of bisected bystanders. No child is left uncharred in this anything-goes lunatic tour of Wong Jing’s brain that feels a lot like sticking your face in a blender.

NOTE: This movie is dubbed into English because, as the wonderful folk at Subway Cinema say, it's dumber that way!

Subway Cinema's next SUNDAYS ON FIRE screening on Sunday, July 10th

Subway Cinema
Presents 

Sundays On Fire: Secret Hong Kong 35mm Feature
When: Sunday, July 10, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Where: Nitehawk Cinema
188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY

Tickets

The second Sunday of every month sees Subway Cinema take over the Nitehawk to unleash an action classic from the golden days of Hong Kong movies and this month they're REALLY bringing their A-game. The title will not be revealed until it appears onscreen because it’s more fun that way but be assured it will celebrating the biggest stars of the ‘80s and ‘90s in their best movies, all presented in glorious 35mm. This is one you won’t want to miss.

In the mid-‘80s, one of Hong Kong’s biggest action stars split from his former partners and forged a new solo path that saw him deliver one stone cold classic after another. Every movie got bigger — more stunts! more brushes with death! more action! more jaw-dropping insanity! — until finally he almost died. After he recovered, he wanted to show the world he was still ready to rumble and so he made this movie which is probably his most dazzling showcase of all time. It’s not just the action that stuns in this award-winning flick, but the intricately choreographed comedy, the massive sprawling period sets, the hairpin plot twists, and the turn-on-a-dime reversals. Sometimes a filmmaker delivers a movie that’s truly a gift to an audience, so consider this one Christmas in July.