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Ky-Fi
01-22-2002, 07:05 PM
I don't have the Encore cable channel, but a friend of mine does and I saw the above-mentioned documentary the other day---it's really excellent. Hosted by Samuel Jackson, it covers the history of kungfu movies from the peking opera, through stuff in the silent film era, 20's, 30's, right up through the present. Covers King Hu, Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest---interviews with Cheng Pei Pei, Lau Kar Leung, Gordon Liu, Sammo, Jackie, Hui Yin Hung, Donnie Yen, John Woo, Ang Lee, plus a lot of others. And for comedy value, it has some laughable commentary from David Carradine and Steven Seagal.

This is airing again on Encore on Thursday, Jan 24th, at 2pm and again at 10 pm.