#459 - Happy Lunar New Year Movies!
The Important Cinema Club
Justin Decloux and Will Sloan
4.7 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Justin DeClew, and I'm here today with Will Slown. |
| 0:10.9 | And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And Will, I would just like to say |
| 0:15.1 | Gonghe Fat Choi to you and your family. Well, thank you so much. Good tidings to you, too. |
| 0:20.8 | It is Chinese New Year. It's the year of the horse. Do you think my tonal pronunciation was there? Because, you know, I want to say something like Kong, hey, fat joy. But then that just sounds pretentious, and I'm wrong already as well. I wouldn't know. No. Me neither. Listen, here's what I know. when I listen to a Cantonese movie, I hear the sounds are much more like sharp. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm sorry. Me neither. Listen, here's what I know. When I listen to a Cantonese movie, I hear the sounds are much more like sharp. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:40.7 | I can be careful. |
| 0:41.8 | But when I hear a mainland movie, it's more like Shang Shai Shosh. Yeah, yeah, I can recognize it. And I remember having to come to that realization |
| 0:48.8 | playing a Hong Kong Lunar New Year movie, |
| 0:52.7 | King of Comedy, |
| 0:53.5 | and playing the VCD and being like, |
| 0:55.6 | why do I hear two audio tracks? |
| 0:57.4 | And having to... a Hong Kong Lunar New Year movie, King of Comedy, and playing the VCD and being like, |
| 0:55.6 | why do I hear two audio tracks and having to unplug one |
| 0:59.0 | and be like, which is the one that is more true |
| 1:02.1 | to what Stephen Chow does? |
| 1:03.4 | Which one is Cantonese? |
| 1:04.2 | Which one is Mandarin? |
| 1:05.2 | Did you ever have the Video Asia DVD |
| 1:07.3 | of Samo Hong's classic film, Don't Give a Damn. |
| 1:10.9 | I did not know. |
| 1:12.0 | Released here under the title Burger Cop. |
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