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This all-nighter starts at Midnight on Saturday 5th Feb and ends around 8.30am on Sunday 6th. 

We are happy to have been supported REDBULL and BEN & JERRY'S ice-cream and will be handing it out to everyone who attends.  To help keep you awake the Curzon SOHO have given us free Tea and Coffee for the night.  

These movies are being screened from the latest HDD digital video players which have kindly been supplied by LITE-ON


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When Tarantino brought us KILL BILL he cited the movies made at the SHAW BROTHERS studios as some of his greatest influences.  Everyone knows them for being Hong Kong's martial arts filmmaking studio.  In fact, the SHAW BROTHERS studio made over 800 movies over a 40 year span, everything from musicals to spy movies.  Even John Woo started out at Shaw!

Celestial Pictures now own the SHAW BROTHERS library and are painstakingly restoring the movies and slowly they are being released on DVD.

We are pleased to be able to bring four of the more fantastic titles to the festival, if you saw the HEROIC GRACE tour, which had movies like the brilliant 36th Chamber of the Shaolin, then come and see some more of the SHAW brilliance and humour.

SUPER INFRAMAN (Hong Kong 1975, Dir: Hua Shan)
Imagine mini-Godzillas fighting "Ironman," add some Shaw-style kung-fu, and then you have The Super Inframan, starring a young Danny Lee, (famous for John Woo's The Killer), the film sees Inframan battling monsters from the Earth's core lead by the evil Demon Princess Dragon Mum (Terry Liu). Fights choreographed by the Tang Chia, and camera work by He Lan-shan (cinematographer on Bruce Lee's Way of the Dragon)
Duration: 85 mins

OILY MANIAC (HK, 1976, Dir: Meng-Hwa Ho)
Apparently this is based on a true story about a thing that comes out at night covered in oil and kills people and covers them in oil - nice!  Besides starring a bevy of beauties like the overly voluptuous Chen Ping and the coyly precocious Angela Yu Chien, the film again features the young up and coming Danny Lee in his first horror film. The film was so scary and unsettling that the censors at the time cut a lot out to make it theater watchable.
Duration 86 mins

MIGHTY PEKING MAN (HK, 1977, Dir: Meng-Hwa Ho)
King Kong goes to Hong Kong in this unique Shaw spin on the ageless theme of beauty and the beast. The beast, seven stories high and hailing from the Himalayas, loves Swiss beauty Evelyn Kraft, a sexy blonde Tarzanette who is also the object of lust from a sleazy show-biz promoter. Will the handsome young explorer save her from what was then Hong Kong’s highest building?  The action, Indian locations, and inter-racial, inter-species romance made Variety reach this verdict: “High camp, Chinese style.”
Duration: 86 mins

MONKEY GOES WEST (HK, 1966, Dir: Meng-Hwa Ho)
In Chinese literature, there is no novel more famous than Journey to the West, There have been countless movie versions dating back to the silent movies, The Monkey Goes West presents a unique interpretation. Ho Fan (who later became one of Hong Kong’s most celebrated erotic film directors) plays the monk who undertakes the journey to search for Buddhist scriptures. Among the creatures he encounters are Monkey (Yueh Hua), Pigsy (Peng Peng), and a damsel in distress (the voluptuous Diana Chang Chung-wen, nicknamed “The Most Beautiful Creature in China”). There is humor, action, and blue-tinged fantasy, including Pigsy’s vision of a pretty widow and eight nude maidens frolicking in a pool. It’s the Tang Dynasty with a 1960s sensibility, and one of the more unusual costume pictures of its era.
Duration: 112mins