The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, June 29-July 5
Shaolin Soccer (2001)
Directed by Stephen Chow
Recently converted soccer fans hungry for more incredible pirouettes can’t go wrong with one the best films ever made about this sport (or any sport, for that matter), an action comedy from Chinese household name Chow, about a pathetic group of martial artists who find themselves in the act of playing soccer. It’s in the scenes of humiliation and awkwardness that Shaolin Soccer gets hard to watch, but once you’ve seen it enough times, it’s those scenes that make you laugh the hardest. It’s a highly rewatchable film, and a relevant one, with a mob subplot running parallel to real-life FIFA corruption cases. Jaime Grijalba (July 2, 5:15pm at the Metrograph’s Chow series)