Live event at the Madison, WI Cinematheque.
There is no place more unhinged this March than the Madison, WI Cinematheque when we arrive on the These Fists Break Bricks Mothership to host the screenings of SIX sense-shattering movies!!! We’ll be selling books! Signing copies! Revealing secrets! And all the screenings are free!
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Friday, March 4 @ 6pm
FIST OF FURY (aka The Chinese Connection) is probably Bruce Lee’s best movie, and it’s definitely his most ferocious. Remade numerous times, it’s the story of one lone badass taking on the Japanese colonizers who killed his master. And by the time it’s over, every bastard will pay.
Friday, March 4 @ 8pm
THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN takes us from the sublime to the ridiculous as we host the craziest Bruceploitation movie ever made. It all begins when Bruce Lee (played by imitator Bruce Leung) wakes up after his death in Hell…with a boner. After that, he has to fight Dracula, The Godfather, and Clint Eastwood himself (among many other copyright infringing characters) as he tries to get back to earth. Super stupid! Super fun!
Saturday, March 5 @ 2pm
THE STREET FIGHTER delivers pure, uncut macho mayhem as Sonny Chiba crashes through the screen and rips out your guts…with his bare hands. The most bankable successor to Bruce Lee, Chiba snarls, sneers, and throat punches his way through a movie so intense it was originally rated X. If you want to taste the Chiba Rainbow, this is the flick that put him on the map.
Saturday, March 5 @ 4pm
SNAKE IN THE EAGLE’S SHADOW put that other successor to Bruce Lee on the map…Jackie Chan! The Clown Prince of Kung Fu spent years as a Bruce Lee imitator before ditching the Bruce schtick and teaming up with action genius Yuen Wo-ping, to deliver this comedy kung fu flick that became an all-time blockbuster at the box office and launched Jackie into the stars.
Saturday, March 5 @ 7pm
MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE delivers the third toughest dude of the ‘70s: Jimmy Wang Yu! The man who pioneered kicking ass onscreen back in 1967 with One-Armed Swordsman, Wang Yu got so pissed at his studio that made his own kung fu movies like this one, and they are wild. A clear influence on future video games like Street Fighter, this is a relentless flick featuring all kinds of exotic moves, soundtracked in wall-to-wall Krautrock, with the world’s wildest weapons! It’ll slice your head off!
Sunday, March 6 @ 2pm
DYNASTY IN 3-D!!! gives you exactly what it says on the box: a 3-D martial arts movie. One of the best sword-slashing revenge pics out there, it’s turned up to 11 by dynamic 3-D photography and every fight scene becomes a workout session where you’re dodging the spears coming off the screens and cringing as arrows fly by your face. The best Sunday afternoon matinee experience you’ll have in your life, you also don’t want to miss the wild tale of porn merchants, helicopter crashes, and decapitations we’re going to tell before the screening to give you the backstory behind this flick.