Friday night we went to a double feature at the Trylon. Ming and his wife went to the first movie with us. Her very first time at the Trylon. I was super excited to see 7 Grandmasters [all about the movie and his Pei Mei style here: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/01/27/7-grandmasters-according-to-the-wisdom-of-shang-kuan-cheng-master-of-the-pei-mei-technique/ as well as at Wikipedia]. I didn't realize it was being hosted by the same Seattle film guy who co-streamed The Mystery of Chessboxing in the earlier days of covid lockdowns. Jen and I [and for part of it, Aeryn] watched that with live commentary by Rza of Wu Tang Clan and, along with some National Theatre production that streamed at that time, it's actually a fond memory of being somewhat trapped in a non-social / non-in-person environment.
Fun movie, although the translations were a bit unusual. Ming - who could read both sets of subtitles and understand the speaking, noted that the subtitles were a bit "Shakespearian" in nature which made for exchanges were they argued about who was a 'rascal' and to never trust 'rascals'. There were probably better word choices. But if you got in the flow, you knew what they were saying. It's fun to see the Chinese characters. There's a TED video where a woman tries to teach some basics of Chinese pictographs in a few minutes. I remember vaguely that person looks like a little stickman. So when they said brother and nobody and me [but not you] you could see the little man in conjunction with other characters.
The second show was a series of grindhouse trailers/previews the same collector had pulled together in all his time working with old 35mm movies. The Grindhouse Trailer Spectacular. That was fun. Some truly awful trailers and a lot of breasts. I think this one in particular - Black Cobra Woman - was the one that seemed to be implying people were sticking snakes in places they didn't belong. And Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals sort of speaks for itself. Good write up here. Was a great time, although by the end I felt a little exhausted at the grindhouse onslaught.
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