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8:15pm • Friday, Jul 17, 2026
The Killer (4K Restoration)
A Hong Kong hitman accidentally blinds an innocent woman during a hit. He is determined to get her surgery to help her regain her sight but he needs to complete one more hit first. He completes the job but then is ambushed as he tries to escape: someone wants him dead. Meanwhile a resourceful, unorthodox police detective is hot on his trail. With Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh, Kong Chu, Kenneth Tsang.
"John Woo’s 1989 thriller is a reminder of the director’s habit of hitching the craziest of mayhem to a mile-wide streak of earnest emotionalism and sentimentality; a strong and under-acknowledged part of why his films are so addictive." (Guardian)
"The work of a filmmaker operating at the highest level of his abilities." (The Dissolve)
"It's as much a doomed romance as a shoot-'em-up." (Empire Magazine)
"A lot of claims have been made for this campy bloodbath concerto by Hong Kong director John Woo, and I must admit that he's even better than Brian De Palma at delivering emotional and visceral excess with staccato relentlessness." (Chicago Reader)
"The director repeatedly places the viewer at the center of the crossfire and turns the gyrating camera into the next best thing to a lethal weapon." (New York Times)
Friday, July 17
Doors 7:45 pm | Movie 8:15 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
THE KILLER 喋血雙雄 (John Woo, 1989 / 111 mins / 18A / Cantonese w/ English subs, English) Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. But when Jeffrey is double-crossed, he reluctantly joins forces with a rogue policeman to make things right.
