Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Release: Pushing Hands

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Digital, Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 1o, 2022
Price: DVD $29.99, Blu-ray $29.99
Studio: Film Movement

Presented in a new 2K restoration, 1991’s Pushing Hands the debut film from director Ang Lee, forming the first chapter in his “Father Knows Best” trilogy, which depicts the tensions between the traditional Confucian values of the older generation and the realities of modern life. The other two films in the trilogy are 1993’s The Wedding Banquet and 1994’s Eat Drink Man Woman.

Having just moved from Beijing, elderly tai chi master Mr. Chu (Sihung Lung) struggles to adjust to life in New York, living with his Americanized son Alex (Ye-tong Wang). Chu immediately butts heads with his put-upon white daughter-in-law, Martha (Deb Snyder), a writer who seems to blame him for her own paralyzing inability to focus. But when Chu begins teaching tai chi at a local school, his desire to make a meaningful connection comes to fruition in the most unexpected of ways.

Co-written by James Schamus, Pushing Hands was selected by the 1992 Berlin International Film Festival and won three Golden Horse Awards, paving the way for Lee’s worldwide success with films such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain.

Bonus Features:

  • Round Table discussion with filmmakers James Schamus, Ted Hope and Tim Squyres, moderated by film critic Simon Abrams
  • 16-page booklet with new essay by NYU Cinema Studies professor Zhen Zhang

 

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.