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Austin Film Society Essential Cinema: The Killer
September 27, 2011
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Tuesday, September 27 at 7 PM
The Alamo Drafthouse Ritz (320 E. 6th Street)
Produced by Tsui Hark
Cinematography by Peter Pau and Wong Wing-Hung
Edited by Fan Kung Ming
Hong Kong, 1989, color, 35mm, 1.85:1, 111 min.
Cast: Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh, Kong Chu, Kenneth Tsang
Cantonese/Mandarin with English subtitles
Jeffrey Chow, misleadingly dubbed “Mickey Mouse,” is a careful, intelligent assassin who prefers high-powered rifles and distance between him and his prey rather than up close and personal mob hits. But when he got caught in one shoot-out, his gunfire inadvertently caused a young nightclub singer to go blind. Feeling responsible and guilty, he wants to get out of the business but takes one more job to get enough money to pay for Jennie’s eye operation. He has befriended her without her realization that he caused her blindness. But with the lack of honor among thieves, Jeffrey’s successful “final assassination” is not paid off according to plans. Instead, his employers have ordered that the assassin be killed. Hot on Jeffrey’s trail, police inspector Lee (incorrectly nicknamed “Dumbo”) finds himself at the right place at the wrong time and becomes the assassin’s ally as they battle 100s of armed gangsters outside Jeffrey’s mansion. During the battle scenes in THE KILLER 60,000 rounds of blank bullets were reportedly fired. This surprisingly gorgeous ballet of splattered blood and 120 falling bodies upped the ante in subsequent action films and led directly to Tarantino’s KILL BILL diptych, among others. Sam Peckinpah (THE WILD BUNCH) was just a pussy cat with a few drops of dried blood on his milk-soaked whiskers in comparison to this roaring lion of Hong Kong. John Woo’s THE KILLER simultaneously exhausts and exhilarates.
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Tickets: $8 General Admission / $5 for AFS Members / FREE for Season Pass Holders & Premiere Members
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September 27, 2011Times:
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