{"id":19596,"date":"2012-07-08T09:57:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T13:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=19596"},"modified":"2012-07-05T15:05:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T19:05:36","slug":"iron-monkey-with-donnie-yen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=19596","title":{"rendered":"Iron Monkey with Donnie Yen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sun, Jul 8 at: 10:30 PM<br \/>\nIFC Center: 323 Sixth Avenue at West Third Street<\/p>\n<p>Donnie Yen will be attending! Co-presented with the New York Asian Film Festival<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/iron-monkey_592x299.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[19596]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19597\" title=\"iron-monkey_592x299\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/iron-monkey_592x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is how you do it. No, seriously, this is how you make a martial arts classic, and not just a martial arts classic, but a movie that is a lesson in how to deliver high-speed, high-impact, no-holds-barred entertainment, Hong Kong style. With IRON MONKEY, Yuen Wo-ping and his family deliver what might just be the greatest martial arts movie of the 90\u2032s, a movie that perfectly encapsulates everything that was great about Hong Kong filmmaking at its peak, full of seriously surreal imagery dredged up from the collective unconscious of a freaky alien race: a monk grinning through a mouth full of dripping blood; a virgin nun assassin with a scaly, purple birthmark covering her face; masked men running up human bodies to perch precariously on their heads.<\/p>\n<p>For more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifccenter.com\/films\/iron-monkey\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ifccenter.com\/films\/iron-monkey\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun, Jul 8 at: 10:30 PM IFC Center: 323 Sixth Avenue at West Third Street Donnie Yen will be attending! Co-presented with the New York Asian Film Festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19599,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19596\/revisions\/19599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}