Sundays on Fire II: The Burning!
It’s the final Sunday on Fire of 2023!!!! We’re taking over the Nitehawk Prospect Park one last time to deliver a Hong Kong movie on 35mm that will rock you hard and take no prisoners. This flick will free your mind, destroy your brain, and set your heart on fire. ALL IN GLORIOUS 35mm!!!!
Sunday, November 5 it’s a rare screening of
one of the most important movies in HK history!
For the final Sunday on Fire, we present this major Hong Kong movie that’s not just the last word on the men behind bars genre, it closes the book, and sets it on fire. By the time this flick is over everything there is to say about violent men being locked up with one another has been said. Loudly. Featuring a break-out role for one of Hong Kong’s most famous actors, it’s a prison movie where everyone is between a rock and a hard place, and there are no good choices, just a series of less terrible options, where violence is continual and catastrophic.
Like a slow-blooming flower this movie unfolds and unfolds and finally blossoms into apocalyptic hysteria, and then it expands even further until it becomes clear that it’s not just indicting prisons and prisoners but all of us who think we need them, and all of us who think they work. Truly savage and totally heartbreaking, this movie almost NEVER SCREENS so this might be your one chance to see it on 35mm.