The Dryden will screen Chan sam ying hung (A Hero Never Dies, Johnnie To, Hong Kong 1998, 86 min., 35mm, Cantonese w/subtitles).

By the time he directed A Hero Never Dies, Johnnie To had been making films for full twenty years, and his vast oeuvre consisted of practically everything, from martial arts fantasies and soap operas to screwball comedies and romantic melodramas—all competent, entertaining accomplishments, showing a quiet, dedicated craftsman at work. But when he first tackled the genre of an action gangster film in 1998 with A Hero Never Dies, To's truest talent emerged and the history of hardboiled genre opened a brand new chapter.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2015-Dec-28]