A Constant Visual Feast

What makes a movie worth preserving? For the record: Every movie is worth preserving, but I think that question should be asked and answered for every single one, even if the outcome is the same. Save the movies. Movies are products of people and their time, and even trash says something about the age it’s made in. 

I wasn’t a conscious being when John Liu made New York Ninja and unceremoniously dumped it without finishing it, and I didn’t live in New York City. I couldn’t tell you what was going through his head when making this, the story of a TV news sound tech who starts beating up gangs when a bunch of thugs kill his pregnant wife for seeing too much. I can tell you that it takes work to pick up the pieces where a filmmaker left off 30 some odd years later and finish what he started. So kudos to Vinegar Syndrome.

I have the full story of New York Ninja‘s strange journey from then to now over at Paste Magazine for you to read.