the Jackie Chan shuffle in the big apple

June 21st, 2013 by Mr. C

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(Who me?)
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Jackie Chan was on-hand in NYC on June 10 to accept the Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award at Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center presented by the team responsible for organizing The New York Asian Film FestivalSubway Cinema! It was an award long due in recognizing the most decorated & skilled International Action star in my book – Jackie Chan! I grew up in a chinese household that watched Jackie Chan profusely in old school kung fu period piece movies as well as his modern day action comedy romps when he teamed up with his 2 peking opera school mates – Sammo Hung & Yuen Biao which were some of my favorite Jackie films! It was an honor to be in the same room with Jackie – twice! Once when he was awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award at Lincoln Center followed with a screening of his new film Chinese Zodiac and then again the following night as he appeared at the Asia Society on Park ave for a brief Q&A with Asia Society film curator La Frances Hui followed by a screening of Drunken Master 2! It was certainly a privilege to see Jackie Chan in person with his animated self as he talked with Grady Hendrix and La Frances Hui. Thank you Subway Cinema & Asia Society for making this all possible! Enjoy the Q&A video at Walter Reade Theater by our Asian film fanatic friend and Jackie Chan superfan – Earl the WanderingAsian and our very own Chocko for the Asia Society video!

(courtesy of ERdarkness @ youtube aka WanderingAsian)

(courtesy of NJ-chocko @ youtube)

Get a taste of The Jackie Chan Experience, a retrospective of films that he directed and starred in! The Jackie Chan Experience film series starts on Monday – June 24th at Lincoln Center! Get your Hong Kong action on! Most of the films are being shown in 35mm format! Go!

(Jackie and La Frances Hui at Asia Society)
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(Jackie Chan showing us the helicopter stunt in Supercop)
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(Jackie Chan with Grady Hendrix/Subway Cinema at Walter Reade Theater)
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(I don’t think Grady wants to challenge Jackie’s fists!)

(Goran from Subway Cinema presenting Jackie w/ the Lifetime Achievement Award)
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Jackie award Goran

(Gavin Smith – Editor & Programming Associate for Film Comment Selects at LINC)
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