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"This March, Spectacle presents two more holiday classics celebrating returns to the longstanding tradition of the Lunar New Year movie.
The Lunar New Year movie, or hesuipian (贺岁片), is a tradition dating back to the early years of the Hong Kong film industry, with the February 1937 release of Tan Xiaodan’s BLOOM AND PROSPER timed to coincide with the holiday. By the 1980s, the term took on a whole new meaning beyond just a film’s release date. Lunar New Year movies came to be seen as something of a genre all their own— widely-marketed, crowd-pleasing films, often blending elements of comedy, romance, action, and fantasy, and highlighting the festivities, teachings, and customs typically associated with the holiday.
Join us this month as we (belatedly) ring in the Year of the Snake with these two timeless New Years classics, each a celebration of food, family, and good fortune in the year ahead." – Spectacle