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All movies seen on 01/22/2020

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Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Directed by John Carpenter

Action | Comedy | Fantasy

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Overview

Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi’s green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.

Rated PG-13 | Length 100 minutes

Actors

Kurt Russell | Kim Cattrall | Dennis Dun | James Hong | Victor Wong | Kate Burton | Donald Li | Carter Wong | Peter Kwong | James Pax | Suzee Pai | Chao Li Chi | Jeff Imada | Rummel Mor | Craig Ng | June Kyoto Lu | Noel Toy | Jade Go | Jerry Hardin | James Lew | Jim Lau | Kenny Endoso | Stuart Quan | Gary Toy | George Cheung | Jimmy Jue | Noble Craig | Danny Kwan | Min Luong | Paul J.Q. Lee | Al Leong | Gerald Okamura | Willie Wong | Eric Lee | Yukio G. Collins | Bill M. Ryusaki | Brian Imada | Nathan Jung | Dan Inosanto | Vernon Rieta | Daniel Wong | Daniel Eric Lee | Lia Chang | Diana Tanaka | Donna L. Noguschi | Shinko Isobe | John Carpenter | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | Conan Lee | Leo Lee | Bill Saito | Phil Jordan | Dawna Lee Heising

Viewing History (seen 6 times)

Viewing Notes

Great to see this on the big screen again and bar none the OLDEST AUDIENCE IVE EXPERIENCED FOR THIS MOVIE. I honestly think they wheel these folks over from the retirement / assisted living homes nearby. And now the library is basically catering to them realizing they are the only ones who come to the classic film series so today they shot off Blu-ray and turned on the closed captions. Really wild to see those on the big screen.

I don’t think they bother showing DCP or 35mm any longer, which is rather sad given the excellent theater they built inside the library fully equipped with a 35mm projected and laser projector.

There was a Q&A discussion with one of the programmers afterwards. Most of it was basic stuff with factoids about Carpenter and Kurt Russell and the few remaining attendees throwing out stuff. This guy is a big Carpenter fan but really didn’t have a handle on Russell’s career outside the films he made with JC (hasn’t seen most of the other titles that folks mentioned). Thought that was strange but whateves. I was just happy they screened something like this to that crowd, many who had never seen it before.

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