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2007/3/19 12:45:04 发表于6512天前 1260
Wu Tiang-ming, China/Hong Kong 1996, 95 mins
In 1930s northern China, a street performer and mask-maker has no apprentice. So he buys a small boy from a market, and begins to teach him his craft. Until he discovers that the boy is not all he seems… This delightful film has many surprises, exquisite visuals and thought provoking scenes about Chinese culture. The film’s director, Wu Tian-Ming, was the head of Xi’an Film Studio and a mentor to many of the 5th generation directors.
Cinema China has devised an online learning environment about the film, which will be available on its website.
Tues 20 March, 8.15pm
Chang Cheh, Hong Kong 1967, 111 mins
Set in a high-coloured studio world of bold and beautiful compositions and intensely reactive music, this film shows how Fang Gang copes with the social stigma of his birth then the emasculation of having his sword arm cut off – by a woman. He tries to settle down to fish and farm but his pride is wounded. A landmark film which marks that moment when Hong Kong cinema morphed from the feminine genre of melodrama into something more masculine.
Wed 21 March 8.15pm
Chen Kaige, China 1984, 89 mins
Northern China, 1939. Life is basic and gruelling. A communist army folklorist collecting peasant songs arrives in a village and stays with a family, whose young daughter dreams of leaving with him. Her yearning for a better life is heartbreaking, her beautiful song – “suffering is forever, sweetness is short-lived” – representing how the whole of China viewed life in those days.
Thursday 22 March, 8.15pm
Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Hong Kong/Taiwan 1989, 157 mins
On 28 February 1947, 20,000 Taiwanese were shot when they rebelled against their nationalist government. Until 1988, there was a ban on mentioning the incident, and then Taiwan’s greatest director released this film about it. Yet this is no ordinary historical film, as the incident is not depicted. The film, which centres around a deaf photographer played by Tony Leung, is about business, art, health and gangsterism as much as conflict.
Fri 23 March 8.15pm
Xie Fei, China 1993, 105 mins
A vivid snapshot of China in a period of unprecedented transformation. The feisty Xiang Ersao, who runs a small rural enterprise, is drawn into a brave, and at times bewildering, new world of joint business ventures and extramarital affairs, whilst coping with an abusive husband and an adult son who suffers from epilepsy.
Sat 24 March 5.15pm
Zhang Yimou Hong Kong/China 2002, 96 mins
Starring Jet Li
A landmark in the history of Chinese film, Hero was the first to go to number one at the US box office. A further turning point in the complex career of master director Zhang Yimou, physically it was astonishing, and used CGI with a new maturity. Zhang’s trademark theme of resilience led some to see Hero as nationalistic but its significance is that it took the tools of 21st Century filmmaking and applied them to the wuxia genre, resulting in something so decorative and pictorially rich that other epic cinema looks dowdy in comparison.
Sat 24 March 8.15pm
Jia Zhang Ke France/Japan/South Korea/China 2002, 113 mins
In the industrial city of Datong, two teenagers hang about in pool halls, ride motorbikes, watch TV and drift through life, searching for unknown pleasures. These kids are in the prime of their lives and yet all they can do is bounce around in their world, and off each other. Jia’s film, like those of Tsai Ming-liang in Taiwan, shows how globalisation can leave young people high and dry, lonely and despairing.
Sun 25 March, 5.15pm
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