Fellow Bruce Lee fans, if you're in Los Angeles, here's a screening you don't want to miss... The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents a 40th anniversary screening of Enter the Dragon, and the opening of the exhibition Kick Ass!: Kung Fu Posters from the Stephen Chin Collection.
Presented from an original 35mm Technicolor dye-transfer print from the Academy film archive, the evening will feature special guests including co-stars John Saxon and Bob Wall, producers Paul Heller and Fred Weintraub, cinematographer Gil Hubbs, screenwriter Michael Allin and Shannon Lee, daughter of Bruce Lee.
It's all going down Wednesday, April 17 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Here are some more event details:
ENTER THE DRAGONI'm definitely going to check this out. For more information about the screening, visit the Academy website. For more details on the exhibition Kick Ass!: Posters from the Stephen Chin Collection, go here.
Wednesday, April 17, 7:30 p.m.
Samuel Goldwyn Theater
8949 Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
All seating is unreserved.
TICKETS
$5 general admission/$3 for Academy members and students with a valid ID.
On sale starting April 1 at 10 a.m. PT online, by mail and in person at the box office.
Filmed almost entirely on location in Hong Kong, “Enter the Dragon” was the first “kung fu” film produced by a major Hollywood studio, Warner Bros. With a score by six-time Oscar-nominated composer Lalo Schifrin, “Enter the Dragon” brought the martial arts film into the American mainstream.