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FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES<\/b><\/div>\n
\u201cTHE GRANDMASTER: TONY LEUNG\u201d
\n<\/b>CELEBRATING THE LEGENDARY HONG KONG ACTOR
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\nSeries runs April 29\u2013May 7 and spotlights 13 iconic films,
\n<\/b>with Tony Leung in person for a special conversation and\u00a0Silent Friend<\/i>\u00a0Q&As<\/b><\/div>\n
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Film at Lincoln Center<\/a> announces \u201cThe Grandmaster: Tony Leung<\/strong>,\u201d a 13-film retrospective running April 29 through May 7 celebrating one of cinema\u2019s most iconic actors. Presented ahead of the theatrical release of “Silent Friend<\/strong><\/a>“<\/i>, the program will feature Tony Leung<\/a> in person for a number of special appearances\u2014his first return to Film at Lincoln Center in more than 25 years\u2014including post-screening Q&As with Leung and director Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi and a career-spanning \u201cAn Evening with Tony Leung\u201d conversation.<\/p>\n

The defining face of the Hong Kong New Wave, an international icon of romantic longing and existential searching, Tony Leung Chiu-wai has made restraint his signature. Across five decades of genre-spanning, globally celebrated work, he embodies the radical idea that the most resonant performances are often the most controlled; that minimalism can be magnetic, hypnotically complex, and aching with emotional depth. After winning fans as a fresh-faced television heartthrob in 1980s Hong Kong, one of TVB\u2019s celebrated \u201cFive Tiger<\/strong>\u201d young idols, Leung established his early command of both interior drama and high-stakes action with Hou Hsiao-hsien and in John Woo\u2019s “Bullet<\/strong> in the Head”<\/i> (1990). He then went on to forge one of contemporary cinema\u2019s most enduring actor-director partnerships with Wong Kar Wai, spanning seven films in which his quiet volatility, emotional reserve, and uncanny fluency in the language of longing found their purest expression. Their project reached perhaps its sublime apex with “In the Mood for Love<\/strong>“<\/i> (2000), which earned him the Best Actor prize at Cannes\u2014the first Hong Kong actor to receive the honor. Since then, his filmography has expanded into something both vast and remarkably cohesive, with indelible performances in the landmark cops-and-triads thriller “Infernal Affairs<\/strong>“<\/i> (2002), later remade in the U.S. as “The Departed<\/strong>“<\/i>, Ang Lee\u2019s lush wartime melodrama “Lust, Caution<\/strong>“<\/i> (2007), Woo\u2019s two-part historical epic “Red Cliff<\/strong>“<\/i>\u00a0(2008-2009), and even a rare, scene-stealing turn in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This career-spanning retrospective gives audiences the chance to rediscover, on the big screen, why the world continues to fall for Tony Leung time and time again.<\/p>\n

Organized by Florence Almozini, Vice President of Programming, Film at Lincoln Center and Tyler Wilson, Senior Programmer, Film at Lincoln Center.<\/i><\/p>\n

Travel support for this series is in part generously provided by Mike Audet.<\/i><\/p>\n

“The Grandmaster: Tony Leung<\/strong>“<\/i>\u00a0is sponsored by Criterion, your trusted home for the best in classic and contemporary films, on the Criterion Channel and in the Criterion Collection\u2019s definitive physical editions.<\/p>\n<\/ins>\n

Acknowledgments<\/u><\/b>:
\n1-2 Special; Academy Film Archive; Janus Films; University of Colorado\u00a0Boulder<\/b>\u00a0Libraries and Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts<\/p>\n

Tickets will go on sale on Monday, April 6 at noon, with an early access period for\u00a0FLC Members<\/a>\u00a0beginning on Friday, April 3 at noon. Retrospective tickets are $18; $15 for students, seniors (62+), and persons with disabilities; and $13 for FLC Members. See more and save with a 3+ Film Package ($16 for GP; $13 for students, seniors (62+), and persons with disabilities; and $11 for FLC Members). Tickets for \u201cAn Evening with Tony Leung\u201d are $40; $35 for students, seniors (62+), and persons with disabilities; and $30 for FLC Members.<\/p>\n

Tickets for\u00a0Silent Friend\u00a0<\/i>are $19; $16 for students, seniors (62+), and persons with disabilities; and $15 for FLC Members. Tickets for\u00a0Silent Friend<\/i>\u00a0screenings with Q&As are $25; $22 for students, seniors (62+), and persons with disabilities; and $20 for FLC Members. 3+ Package excludes \u201cAn Evening with Tony Leung\u201d and\u00a0Silent Friend<\/i>\u00a0screenings. Learn more\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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FILM DESCRIPTIONS<\/u>
\n<\/b>All films screen at the Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th Street)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/ins>\n

Opens May 8
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Silent Friend
\n<\/b>Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi, 2025, Germany\/France\/Hungary, 147m
\n<\/b>German, English, and Cantonese with English subtitles
\n<\/b>Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi, whose\u00a0On Body and Soul<\/i>\u00a0won the Golden Bear at the 2017 Berlinale and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best International Feature Film, returns with a century-spanning triptych that moves from 1908 to the early months of the pandemic, unfolding around an ancient ginkgo in the botanical garden of Marburg University, the fixed witness to a century\u2019s worth of passing faces. From a young woman forcing her way into the male-dominated scientific establishment at the dawn of the 20th century (played by Luna Wedler, winner of the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actress at the 2025 Venice Film Festival), to idealistic lovers in the politically turbulent 1970s, Enyedi considers how consciousness itself is historically situated, mapping the incremental rewiring of how people think and connect over time. Tony Leung anchors the 2020 chapter with a characteristically subtle, deeply felt performance as a visiting neuroscientist stranded on campus during lockdown, whose attempt to measure the tree\u2019s electromagnetic signals\u2014guided remotely by a French plant biologist, played by L\u00e9a Seydoux\u2014gradually opens into a meditation on perception itself. Shifting between silvered monochrome 35mm, warm 16mm, and digital macro-photography,\u00a0Silent Friend<\/i>\u00a0attends to the rhythms of time in all its forms, where the tremor of a leaf in late afternoon carries the same gravity as a held glance across a room. A 1-2 Special release.
\nWednesday, May 6 at 1:30pm \u2013 Q&A with Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi and Tony Leung
\n<\/b>Thursday, May 7 at 5:30pm \u2013 Q&A with Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi and Tony Leung
\n<\/b>Friday, May 8 at 6:00pm \u2013 Q&A with Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi and Tony Leung<\/b><\/p>\n

New 4K Restoration
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Bullet in the Head<\/a>
\n<\/b>John Woo, 1990, Hong Kong, 136m
\n<\/b>Cantonese with English subtitles
\n<\/b>John Woo\u2019s Vietnam War-cum-gangster saga begins amid the unrest of 1967 Hong Kong, where three friends\u2014Ben (Tony Leung), Frank (Jacky Cheung), and Paul (Waise Lee)\u2014skip town after a wedding-night gang fight turns deadly. Their escape plan lands them in Saigon, but its lawless war zones teeming with opportunists and profiteers pull them into an escalating spiral of greed and betrayal. Something like\u00a0The Deer Hunter<\/i>\u00a0by way of\u00a0The Treasure of the Sierra Madre<\/i>,\u00a0Bullet in the Head\u00a0<\/i>showcases Woo at his most ferocious and somber, whiplashing from street fights to one punishing, large-scale set piece after another while Leung\u2019s tremulous, man-under-fire performance cuts against the surrounding pyrotechnics with an unusual magnetism, and transforms Ben\u2019s frenzied arc into something tragically relatable.
\nThursday, April 30 at 6:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n

New 4K Restoration
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Hard Boiled
\n<\/b>John Woo, 1992, Hong Kong, 128m
\n<\/b>Cantonese with English subtitles
\n<\/b>Two years after\u00a0Bullet in the Head<\/i>, Tony Leung reunited with John Woo as a dapper, ice-cool hit man whose divided loyalties anticipated the stoic, enigmatic screen presence that would define him by the new millennium and, in particular, the conflicted soul he would immortalize in\u00a0Infernal Affairs<\/i>. When jazz-loving detective \u201cTequila\u201d Yuen (Chow Yun-fat, already an icon from\u00a0A Better Tomorrow<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Killer<\/i>) tears through Hong Kong\u2019s gun-smuggling underworld after his partner is killed, the impeccably dressed killer in his sights (Leung) inevitably proves to be another cop in disguise, giving Woo the perfect excuse to pair Chow\u2019s swaggering cowboy with the subtly mesmerizing Leung. Swooping camera moves, slow-motion doves, and tequila glasses giving way to frantic close-ups of muzzle flashes and bodies hurled through the air, this is Woo at the height of his formal powers\u2014an action landmark whose perversely poetic expressions of destruction set the stage for Woo\u2019s run in Hollywood.
\nThursday, April 30 at 8:50pm
\n<\/b>Friday, May 1 at 12:45pm<\/b><\/p>\n

New 4K Restoration
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Chungking Express<\/a>
\n<\/b>John Woo, 1992, Hong Kong, 128m
\n<\/b>Cantonese with English subtitles
\n<\/b>Wong Kar Wai, 1994, Hong Kong, 102m
\n<\/b>Cantonese, Mandarin, and English with English subtitles
\n<\/b>For American audiences who first encountered Tony Leung during\u00a0Chungking Express<\/i>\u2019s U.S. theatrical release (his first major stateside breakthrough), it was a revelation, marking his emergence from Hong Kong stardom into an international arthouse icon and Wong Kar Wai\u2019s defining muse, paving the way for masterpieces like\u00a0In the Mood for Love<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a02046<\/i>. In it, two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Leung and Takeshi Kaneshiro), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express takeout restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works, but it is Leung\u2019s Cop 663, drifting through the film\u2019s dreamy second half in a state of quiet heartbreak, who gives this pop-infused city symphony its soulful center. This gloriously shot (by Christopher Doyle), utterly unexpected charmer cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and The Mamas and the Papas\u2019 \u201cCalifornia Dreamin\u2019\u201d into tokens of longing\u2014one of the defining works of \u201990s cinema. An NYFF32 selection.
\nWednesday, April 29 at 6:30pm
\n<\/b>Thursday, May 7 at 12:15pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Cyclo
\n<\/b>Tr\u00e2n Anh H\u00f9ng, 1995, Vietnam\/France\/Hong Kong, 35mm, 123m
\n<\/b>Vietnamese with English subtitles
\n<\/b>Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Tr\u00e2n Anh H\u00f9ng\u2019s feverish follow-up to\u00a0The Scent of Green Papaya<\/i>\u00a0plunges into post\u2013\u0110\u1ed5i M\u1edbi Saigon and marked a radical, darker departure for Tony Leung, here conjuring a haunting blend of tortured interiority and taciturn charisma. He plays the Poet, a near-silent gangster orbiting the city\u2019s underworld, who ensnares an orphaned cyclo driver after his bicycle taxi is stolen, coercing the boy into running drugs while the boy\u2019s sister is groomed for prostitution. Shot in 35mm with a gritty immediacy that slips into an increasingly hallucinatory grammar,\u00a0Cyclo<\/i>\u00a0is a \u201990s gem that transfigures neon, sweat, and pop music into a punishingly sad fever dream, with Leung\u2019s tight-lipped performance\u2014all eyes and pensive cigarette drags\u2014at its center. 35mm film print generously provided by the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries and Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts.
\nWednesday, April 29 at 3:45pm
\n<\/b>Friday, May 1 at 8:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n<\/ins>\n

New 4K Restoration
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Happy Together
\n<\/b>Wong Kar Wai, 1997, Hong Kong\/Japan\/South Korea, 96m
\n<\/b>Cantonese and Spanish with English subtitles
\n<\/b>One of Tony Leung\u2019s most vulnerable performances anchors Wong Kar Wai\u2019s raw, lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown. He plays Lai Yiu-fai, a homesick Hong Kong exile in Buenos Aires, locked in an on-again\/off-again spiral of passion, jealousy, and \u201cstarting over\u201d with the mercurial Ho Po-wing (Leslie Cheung). Lai moves from tango bars to kitchen shifts and, in a heartbreaking stretch, nurses Ho back to health with quiet, wounded steadiness. Capturing the dynamics of a queer relationship with empathy and complexity on the cusp of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong\u2014when the country\u2019s LGBTQ community suddenly faced an uncertain future\u2014Wong portrays the cycle of a love affair that is by turns devastating and delirious. Shot by Christopher Doyle in both luminous monochrome and saturated color,\u00a0Happy Together<\/i>\u00a0is an intoxicating exploration of displacement and desire. An NYFF35 selection.
\nWednesday, April 29 at 8:45pm
\n<\/b>Monday, May 4 at 9:15pm<\/b><\/p>\n

New 4K Restoration
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Flowers of Shanghai
\n<\/b>Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1998, Taiwan\/Japan, 113m
\n<\/b>Mandarin with English subtitles
\n<\/b>In one of his most quietly devastating performances, Tony Leung stars as Master Wang, a wealthy patron drifting through the opium-laden \u201cflower houses\u201d of fin-de-si\u00e8cle 19th-century Shanghai. Hou Hsiao-hsien\u2019s ravishing chamber drama follows the intertwined intrigues of four courtesans in a hermetically sealed world that seems to float outside of time. Torn between the demanding Crimson (Michiko Hada) and the more eager-to-please Jasmin (Vicky Wei), Wang gradually realizes he is looking for love in all the wrong places. Hou\u2019s first film set outside of Taiwan,\u00a0Flowers of Shanghai<\/i>\u00a0is a transfixing masterwork\u2014an achingly, intoxicatingly sensuous touchstone and a pivotal chapter in Leung\u2019s career that placed his famously modern melancholia inside an exquisite late-Qing tableau. An NYFF36 Main Slate selection and NYFF58 Revivals selection.
\nFriday, May 1 at 6:00pm
\n<\/b>Tuesday, May 5 at 12:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n

New 4K Restoration
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In the Mood for Love + In the Mood for Love 2001
\n<\/b>Wong Kar Wai, 2000\/2001, Hong Kong\/France, 107m
\n<\/b>Cantonese and Shanghainese with English subtitles
\n<\/b>Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung, in the career-defining performance that earned him Best Actor at Cannes) and Su Li-Zhen (Maggie Cheung) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant,\u00a0In the Mood for Love<\/i>\u00a0is a masterful evocation of romantic yearning and its fleeting moments, anchored by Leung\u2019s controlled portrayal of desire held just below the surface. With its aching soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bing, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past quarter-century of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong and Leung\u2019s redoubtable artistic partnership. An NYFF38 Main Slate selection and an NYFF58 Revivals selection.<\/p>\n

The feature will be followed by\u00a0In the Mood for Love 2001<\/i>, a nine-minute coda\u2014the \u201cdessert\u201d after the main course, as Wong put it. It imagines Leung and Cheung, now as different characters, reuniting in a modern-day Hong Kong convenience store. Brisk, comic, and unconstrained, yet no less beguiling. A Janus Films release.
\nSaturday, May 2 at 6:00pm
\n<\/b>Thursday, May 7 at 9:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Hero
\n<\/b>Zhang Yimou, 2002, China\/Hong Kong, 35mm, 99m
\n<\/b>Mandarin with English subtitles
\n<\/b>Zhang Yimou\u2019s lush\u00a0wuxia<\/i>\u00a0unfurls an assassination plot through a\u00a0Rashomon<\/i>-like chain of flashbacks. In the Warring States period, Nameless (Jet Li) claims he has killed three rebels\u2014Sky (Donnie Yen), Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung), and Broken Sword (Tony Leung)\u2014which earns him an audience with the King of Qin. Each retelling shifts motive and allegiance, from a rain-drenched duel scored to a zither, to a crimson-soaked calligraphy school pierced by volleys of arrows. Reuniting the\u00a0In the Mood for Love<\/i>\u00a0pair in a more openly tragic key, Leung and Cheung bring aching romantic force to Yimou\u2019s hyper-stylized parable about the cost of peace under authoritarian rule, as Ching Siu-tung\u2019s wire-fu choreography and Christopher Doyle\u2019s cinematography turn each duel into a precise, operatic set piece. 35mm print from the Academy Film Archive.
\nSunday, May 3 at 1:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n

4K Restoration
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Infernal Affairs
\n<\/b>Andrew Lau, Alan Mak, 2002, Hong Kong, 101m
\n<\/b>Cantonese with English subtitles
\n<\/b>A blockbuster in Asia, and later the source for Martin Scorsese\u2019s\u00a0The Departed<\/i>, the first part of Andrew Lau and Alan Mak\u2019s groundbreaking policier saga traded the high-octane ballistics of earlier Hong Kong films for a cooler, crisper style and a head-spinning plot full of twists that forever changed the genre. After being thrown out of the police academy, Yan (Tony Leung) is buried alive in the criminal underworld as a long-term undercover cop, his grip on identity pushed to the breaking point. Recruited by the triads as a teenager, Ming (Andy Lau) is the mirror image: a mole inside the police department\u2019s Criminal Intelligence Bureau. Co-written by Mak with Felix Chong,\u00a0Infernal Affairs<\/i>\u00a0draws symmetrical lines of action between mob and police, capturing with precision the swelling pressures as each man hunts the traitor who is, in fact, himself. A sleek, visually exacting thriller for two great stars,\u00a0Infernal Affairs<\/i>\u00a0is also one of Leung\u2019s defining roles (shot the same year as\u00a0Hero<\/i>), channeling the gravitas of his art-house work into one of modern crime cinema\u2019s most quietly devastating performances.
\nFriday, May 1 at 3:30pm
\n<\/b>Sunday, May 3 at 9:15pm<\/b><\/p>\n

2046
\n<\/b>Wong Kar Wai, 2004, Hong Kong\/China\/France\/Italy\/Germany, 35mm, 128m
\n<\/b>Cantonese, Mandarin, and Japanese with English subtitles
\n<\/b>In Wong Kar Wai\u2019s future-set\u00a02046<\/i>\u00a0(a loose continuation of\u00a0Days of Being Wild<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0In the Mood for Love<\/i>), the titular number is many things at once: the year when mainland China assumes absolute control of Hong Kong; the number of the hotel room across from that of Mr. Chow (Tony Leung), inhabited by a parade of women he pursues and abandons; and the name of the mysterious place where disappointed lovers escape to in Chow\u2019s erotic science-fiction novel. Wong\u2019s concentration and control\u2014of the Cinemascope frame, light, color, and the most minute gestures\u2014are at their most accomplished in a work enamored of the limitless expanse of memory and imagination, where reality and fiction dissolve into regret and yearning. Leung\u2019s reprisal of the affable, self-mocking Chow, this time with a bitter edge, makes the film\u2019s reality and fantasy feel like one continuous ache. Faye Wong, Carina Lau, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, and an electrifying Ziyi Zhang are the women in his life, indelible as ghosts from a forgotten past.
\nSaturday, May 2 at 8:45pm
\n<\/b>Tuesday, May 5 at 3:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Lust, Caution
\n<\/b>Ang Lee, 2007, U.S.\/China\/Taiwan\/Hong Kong, 35mm, 158m
\n<\/b>Mandarin, Shanghainese, Cantonese, and Japanese with English subtitles
\n<\/b>In 2007, Ang Lee set out to \u201ccreate a Tony Leung you\u2019ve never seen before,\u201d and his Mr. Yee in\u00a0Lust, Caution<\/i>\u00a0is exactly that: a high-ranking collaborator responsible for torture and executions, whose terrifying aura of power registers in the smallest gestures and an inscrutable gaze. Against the shifting backdrop of Japanese-occupied Hong Kong and Shanghai, a student resistance cell recruits shy actress Wong Chia Chi (Tang Wei) to infiltrate Yee\u2019s circle as \u201cMrs. Mak,\u201d using seduction to draw him into a trap she reprises years later when an assassination plot is finally set in motion. Lee turns mahjong games, shopping trips, and tea-room small talk into slow-burn suspense, ignited in scenes of brutal intimacy and sudden bloodshed. Leung\u2019s performance\u2014a master class in control\u2014loads every glance into an expression that might be a test, or a threat, in this exacting, sensuous espionage tragedy that remains as seductive as it is devastating. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
\nWednesday, April 29 at 12:30pm
\n<\/b>Monday, May 4 at 6:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Red Cliff
\n<\/b>John Woo, 2008\u201309, China\/Hong Kong\/Japan\/South Korea\/Taiwan, 35mm, 287m
\n<\/b>Mandarin with English subtitles
\n<\/b>John Woo\u2019s colossal five-hour epic recreates the Battle of Red Cliffs (208\u2013209 A.D.) as a thriller of tactics and temperament, anchored by Tony Leung\u2019s soulful performance as Zhou Yu\u2014a \u201cwarrior-poet\u201d general of the southern kingdom of Wu, leading an uneasy alliance against Chancellor Cao Cao\u2019s overwhelming northern invasion. As Cao Cao (Zhang Fengyi) drives this campaign to unify China by force, Zhou Yu helps broker an uneasy alliance between southern ruler Sun Quan (Chang Chen) and the exiled warlord Liu Bei, whose forces are guided by master strategist Zhuge Liang (Takeshi Kaneshiro), sealed in a candlelit guqin duet that doubles as a test of wills. What follows is Woo at operatic scale: cavalry trapped in the Eight Trigrams formation, plague corpses floated downriver, a \u201cborrowed arrows\u201d gambit at dawn, and a fire-ship assault that sets the Yangtze ablaze. Film at Lincoln Center is pleased to present this exceptionally rare 35mm screening of\u00a0Red Cliff<\/i>\u00a0in its complete two-part version, with a 35-minute intermission on April 30 and 45-minute intermission on May 3.
\nThursday, April 30 at 12:00pm (with 35-minute intermission)
\n<\/b>Sunday, May 3 at 3:15pm (with 45-minute intermission)<\/b><\/p>\n

The Grandmaster (Hong Kong Cut)
\n<\/b>Wong Kar Wai, 2013, Hong Kong\/China, 130m
\n<\/b>Mandarin, Cantonese, and Japanese with English subtitles
\n<\/b>Nearly 10 years in the making and the culmination of Wong Kar Wai\u2019s seven-film partnership with Tony Leung,\u00a0The Grandmaster\u00a0<\/i>is his most ambitious project: a propulsive action epic inspired by the life of legendary kung fu master Ip Man, played by Leung, who trained for four years\u2014enduring injuries along the way\u2014to bring the role\u2019s physical and philosophical rigor to life with effortless precision and cool. The story spans the tumultuous Republican era following the fall of China\u2019s last dynasty, a time of chaos, divided loyalties, and war, but also the golden age of Chinese martial arts. Filmed across snow-swept northern landscapes and the subtropical South, this original 130-minute Hong Kong cut features exquisitely staged action and virtuosic performances by Leung and Ziyi Zhang, who lends a transfixing allure to the fictional Gong Er, Ip\u2019s friend and fellow martial artist.
\nTuesday, May 5 at 9:00pm
\n<\/b>Thursday, May 7 at 2:30pm<\/b><\/p>\n

An Evening with Tony Leung
\n<\/b>In anticipation of his latest role in\u00a0Silent Friend<\/i>, opening at Film at Lincoln Center on May 8, and as part of our career-spanning retrospective, Tony Leung joins us in the Walter Reade Theater for a special onstage conversation tracing one of the most extraordinary screen careers of the past five decades. From his emergence in the Hong Kong New Wave to his enduring collaborations with many of the defining filmmakers of contemporary cinema, Leung will reflect on the roles, working methods, and creative instincts that have shaped his singular screen presence.
\nTuesday, May 5 at 6:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n

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