04/16/2015-04/19/2015
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Ave., (at 2nd St.), New York, NY 10003

Since the dawn of time, man’s natural predator has been the ninja. Hiding in your shower, crouching behind your laptop, clinging to your back — the ninja is everywhere. What killed the dinosaurs? Ninja. What battles great white shark? Ninja. Who is buying flowers for your mom? Probably ninja. Ninja is not vampire! Ninja can be filmed! This year’s Old School Kung Fu Fest examines this crazy natural phenomena of ninja with 14 movies that show you this sneaky fighter where he cannot shoot throwing stars into your eyes: on the movie screen!

There are serious black-and-white ninjas in the original ninja films Shinobi No Mono 1 & 2 (1962 and 1963), super-noir ninjas in 1965’s Samurai Spy, party-colored crazy ninjas from the go-go 1980’s like American Ninja 1 & 2 and then be entered, revenged, and dominated by Cannon’s essential ninja trilogy: Enter the Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja, and Ninja III: The Domination. Watch brave Chinese people fight ninjas with their guts in Shaw Brothers movies like Five Element Ninjas where ninjas are wrapped in gold foil like baked potato! See ninjas fly on kites and battle Shaolin in Duel to the Death! You must see all the ninjas! Because to fight ninja, first you must understand the heart of ninja.

WARNING: Do not be scared. Ninja are only in movie and cannot hurt you. They are not actually giant. Except in Duel to the Death.

NOTICE: Sho Kosugi is meditating in a mist-filled temple built deep within an active volcano until mankind needs him once again.

Help Make It Happen!
Subway Cinema needs your help to put together the most ninja-filled weekend event ever to hit New York’s silver screens! As a team, we resurrected The Old School Kung Fu Festival in 2013 with the simple desire to return to our roots: doing something fun and deviant at Anthology Film Archives, focusing on the films that got us into the business in the first place, and sharing this passion with you, our fans.

The Old School Kung Fu Fest DNA is all about the incomparable pleasures and excitement you get from a bit of classic, ass-kicking action cinema. Logically (!?), the 2015 edition is all about ninjas. Yes. Ninjas.

Archives and vaults from around the world were scoured to find prints… and well, we got a bit crazy. So this year’s Old School Festival is the biggest yet. For four days, April 16-19, the team will bring you some of the hottest ninja action your brains can handle, no matter what. 14 films, including a secret screening.

Your help will go a long way to showing us that we are not simply out of our minds and that there is love, meaning and support for this type of unorthodox programming! Shipping, booking, creating subtitles and all the unseen things and dark deeds done behind the scenes to put together these festivals is more expensive these days. And box office tickets cover only a small fraction of our total costs. The remainder has typically been covered by government and corporate grants, and the generosity of individual donors.

You, the people, now have a bit of our fate in your hands. We have faith in you: you can help us out directly, help make the festival happen smoothly, and we’ll you give a little something in return. For more details, please visit our IndieGoGo Campaign.

For more information, please visit
http://www.subwaycinema.com/oldschool15/