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Schedule+Directions2011 Schedule (jump to Directions) Thursday 8/25/11 8PM WAY OF THE DRAGON [猛龍過江] (1972). 88 min. Bruce Lee plays Tang Lung, a young martial artist from Hong Kong who travels to Rome to help out at a friend’s restaurant. The local mafia kingpin wants the property and sends his thugs to shut down the restaurant. The standoff leads to a final battle in the Colosseum between Lee and a young Chuck Norris – one of the most famous cinematic smackdowns of all time! Written and directed by Bruce Lee. Starring Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, and Nora Miao. In Cantonese. Thursday’s film will be preceded by a brief demonstration by students of Zhou Xuan Yun starting at 7:30PM. Zhou Xuan Yun has studied at the Wudang temple in China, and has been teaching at the Ultimate Fitness Gym (home of Nam Pai Academy) in Boston’s Chinatown. Watch a video of his work on Youtube. Friday 8/26/11 8PM GALLANTS [打擂台] (2010). 100 min. A low budget indie film shot in 18 days with a cast of mostly over-the hill kung fu actors from the 70s, GALLANTS was a surprise hit in Hong Kong last year, and was named as “Best Film of 2010” by…
Photos+VideoPhotos [slidepress gallery=’films-at-the-gate-photos’] (More photos via Flickr 2006-2009) Video Video credits: Sam Davol (More videos via YouTube 2007, 2008, 2009)
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AboutAbout For five nights every summer, a vacant lot near Boston’s Chinatown Gate becomes a free, outdoor theater, showing Kung-Fu and classic Chinese-language films. Films at the Gate is a collaborative project of Chinatown residents, Boston Street Lab, film curator Jean Lukitsh, and the Asian Community Development Corporation. The series seeks to: improve awareness of Boston’s Chinatown as a site of cultural activity restore a tradition of shared, public experience of Chinese-language films in Chinatown provide temporary community use of Chinatown’s underutilized spaces, draw foot-traffic to neighborhood restaurants, and make downtown Boston a destination beyond the working hours. The Asian Community Development Corporation is a founding sponsor and presenter of Films at the Gate. ACDC is a community-based organization serving the Asian American community of Greater Boston, with an emphasis on preserving and revitalizing Boston’s Chinatown. Jean Lukitsh is the curator of the series. Jean is a former resident of Chinatown, and was the projectionist for two of the three cinemas that existed in Boston’s Chinatown in the 70s and 80s. Jean is a regular contributor to the popular website Kung Fu Cinema, a student of local wushu Master Bow Sim Mark, and a martial arts teacher in Boston. Leslie and Sam…
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Founding Sponsors

Asian Community Development Corporation • AnconaHirsch • The Banyan Tree Project / MAP for Health • Beate Becker • The Boston Foundation • Boston Society of Architects (Black Architects Forum) • Berwick Research Institute • Chang & Sylligardos Architects • Chinatown Main Street • Chinese Wushu Research Institute • ImaginAsian TV • Lisa N. Davis • Leslie & Sam Davol • DLA Piper US LLP and Daniel A. Taylor • Emerson College • Douglas Ling • Hiroko Kikuchi & Jeremy Liu • Paul W. Lee • Lincoln Filene Center for Community Partnerships, Tisch College, Tufts University • Belser Louie • Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority • Movie Fan • Jerry and Lori Rappaport, Jr. • Tufts Medical Center • Urban Strategy America Fund, A New Boston Real Estate Fund • Utile, Inc • Winthrop Federal Credit Union – South End Neighborhood Branch • Professor Pai-Ling Yin

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