Full Contact - New 4K Restoration

Showings

Grand Illusion Cinema at NWFF C1 Mon, Sep 14 7:00 PM
Film Info
Release Year:1992
Genre:Crime
Action
Thriller
Production Country:Hong Kong
Thailand
Original Language:Cantonese
English
Format:4K DCP
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Ringo Lam Ling-Tung
Cast:Chow Yun-Fat
Simon Yam
Ann Bridgewater
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
Bonnie Fu Yuk-Jing
Screenwriter:Nam Yin

Description

Chow Yun-Fat (CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) steps into the most gleefully tasteless shoot-em-up of his storied career. Queer arms dealers, fields of exploding automobiles, harsh neon greens and blues, madness with butterfly knives, biker punk chic, ripping donuts on motorbikes and heaping helpings of horniess. The ultimate ‘90s Hong Kong action sleazefest by bullet balletmaster Ringo Lam (CITY ON FIRE, PRISON ON FIRE). 

 

In Cantonese with English subtitles.

 

Special live intro from local Hong Kong genre film connoisseur and one of the programmers of the Seattle Film Society, Patrick McFarland.

 

“With Full Contact, Lam takes the action genre and proceeds to not merely transcend it but explode it.” Beth Accomando, KPBS.org