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    Science on Screen Presents: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

    Science on Screen Presents: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

    Presented by Coolidge Corner Theatre at Coolidge Corner Theatre

    April 5, 2010

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    Winner of four Academy Awards (Best Foreign Language Film, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Score), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is director Ang Lee’s internationally acclaimed homage to the Hong Kong wuxia (martial arts) films that fueled his love of movies as a young man in his native Taiwan. Set against the gorgeous landscapes of nineteenth-century China, this epic tale combines exhilarating martial arts and action sequences choreographed by the great Yuen Wo Ping (best known to American audiences for his work on The Matrix) with a story rife with romance, intrigue, and dramatic soul. So what does a martial arts film have to do with science? Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon keeps audiences spellbound by toying with conventional physics. Combatants soar over rooftops, run up walls, step on water, and battle atop the branches of a bamboo forest. Before the screening, Andrew Cohen, professor of physics at Boston University, explores some of the ways in which the film "bends" the laws of physics. Co-presented by the Museum of Science, Boston and New Scientist magazine.


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        Coolidge Corner Theatre

        290 Harvard St
        Brookline, MA 02446

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        $9.75 general admission, $7.75 students, seniors, Museum of Science members

        Info Phone: 617/734-2500

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        Dates:
        April 5, 2010

        Times:

        7:00 p.m.

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