Fantastic Fest Favorite:
IP MAN 2
Opens @Lake Creek 1/28 and starts @Village 2/4
Advance tickets available here
IP MAN 2 Premiered at Fantastic Fest this year to huge acclaim. We're bringing back one of our favorite films from the fest for select screenings at Lake Creek and Village - on 35mm!
No knowledge of IP MAN 1 is necessary. Driven out of Foshan by the Japanese, we pick up the Ip Man story in 1949 as Master Ip (Donnie Yen) arrives in Hong Kong. Wife pregnant, money short, friends scarce, he sets up a martial arts school but no Hong Kong people want to study with the weird, tea-sipping dude from China. It doesn’t take long to figure out the problem: Master Hung (Sammo Hung) runs the martial arts schools in Hong Kong with an iron fist, extorting “fees” and paying off the corrupt British cops.
But nobody puts Donnie Yen in the corner, and soon enough he’s standing on a rickety table in a tea house, putting down masters one by one in order to purchase his right to teach wing chun with payments made in nothing but knuckles. Wing chun is the sissy kung fu, invented by a Buddhist nun and long derided in the martial world.
Fluid and graceful, IP MAN 2 makes the case that while wing chun may have been invented by Buddhist nuns, these particular Buddhist nuns were not fooling around.
Get your tickets for IP MAN 2: Opens Friday at Lake Creek, and Starting at Village on 2/4
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