SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 – 10 AM TO 2 AM

ADVANCE DAY PASSES ON SALE NOW!

For the past two years, Spectacle’s brought the tradition of the hesuipian贺岁片 to New York audiences with our recurring series of Lunar New Year crowd pleasers that highlight the festivities, teachings, and customs typically associated with the holiday.

This year, to mark the end of Golden Week, we’re doubling– no, tripling– no, octupling down on our New Year showcase with an all-day mystery marathon featuring EIGHT holiday classics spanning over half a century of Chinese-language cinema. A veritable babaofan八宝饭 of comedy, romance, action, and fantasy guaranteed to bring you good fortune in the year ahead. Bring friends, bring family, bring food (yknow, since we likely won’t be able to work in a dinner break…), or just bring yourself and a healthy appetite for filmic comfort food.

Advance day passes are on sale now for $25. Single film tickets are $5 each and will be available at the door.

Our program begins at 10am and runs through midnight. Programming notes and anticipated start times are below.

NOTE: Given the length of this program, each screening will begin promptly at its listed start time. Seating is available to both passholders and single-film ticketholders on a first-come, first-serve basis, and is not guaranteed for late arrivals.

10 AM
XXX XXXXX XXXX
Dir. XXXXX XXXXXXXX, 1937
China. 94 min.
In Mandarin with English subtitles.

Our marathon begins at the beginning with one of the earliest features to be marketed around its Lunar New Year subject matter, following multiple characters as they share in the same token of prosperity.

12 PM
XXX XXXXXXXX XXXXX XXX XX XXXXX
Dir. XXXX XXX-XXX, 1961
Hong Kong. 108 min.
In Cantonese & Mandarin with English subtitles.

For our second feature, we jump forward in time to the Hong Kong film industry’s nascent years with a comedy classic that mines hilarity from an era of changing cultural, social, and material values, helmed by the father of one of the territory’s most prolific future filmmakers.

2 PM
XXX XXX XXX-XXXXX XXXXXXXXX
Dir. XXXXX XXXX, 1971
Hong Kong. 98 min.
In Mandarin with English subtitles.

A new decade, a New Year, a new take on an iconic wuxia character.

4 PM
XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX
Dir. XXXXXXX XXX XXXX-XXX, 1981
Hong Kong. 91 min.
In Cantonese with English subtitles.

Nothing and no one is safe in this fast-paced comedic masterpiece, canonically considered to be one of the (if not thee) very first modern Lunar New Year films.

6 PM
XXXX XXX XXX XXXX
Dir. XXXX XXXX XXX, 1985
Hong Kong, 91 min.
In Cantonese with English subtitles.

The New Year spirit spreads through Hong Kong like wildfire in this comedy about gods, gangsters, and ghostbusters.

8 PM
XXXX XX XXXXXXXX
Dir. XXX XXX-XXX, 1994
Hong Kong. 93 min.
In Cantonese with English subtitles.

Hong Kong’s greatest comedic talent takes a bao in this action-comedy that solidified his status as king of the New Year box office.

10 PM
XXXXXXXX
Dir. XXXXXXX XXX XXX-XXXX, 1999
Hong Kong. 120 min.
In Cantonese & Mandarin with English subtitles.

Our penultimate feature is an action-tinged rom-com in which Hong Kong’s favorite son holds his own against two dramatic heavyweights. A long-in-development labor of love for its star, completed just in time to help ring in the new millennium.

MIDNIGHT-ish
XXX XXXX XXXXXX
Dir. XXXXXXX XX XXX-XXXX & XXX XX-XXX, 2002
Hong Kong. 97 min.
In Cantonese with English subtitles.

What better place to end our marathon than on another Year of the Horse release. 24 years later still the pinnacle of Lunar New Year comedies in which no gamble is too risky and no gag too ridiculous.