Do I win anything?Bikey wrote:Remind me NEVER to compete against any of you in a Film Quiz team!Another guess would be Fei Xie's Black Snow (Ben ming nian). I haven't seen it, but it fits the description.
Teacher to Chen Kiage, Jia Zhangke and Zhang Yimou, director Xie Fei has been a Professor at the Beijing Film Academy for very many years. We hope you will discover a remarkable film. With a great central performance by Jiang Wen.
It's moot now, but Mama was finished in 1990 and held up for two years by the censors.filmghost wrote:Bumming in Beijing seems very likely, but Zhang Yuan's Mama was released in 1992.
You win our respect 8-) and get to discover a wonderful film...filmghost wrote:Do I win anything?Bikey wrote:Remind me NEVER to compete against any of you in a Film Quiz team!Another guess would be Fei Xie's Black Snow (Ben ming nian). I haven't seen it, but it fits the description.
Teacher to Chen Kiage, Jia Zhangke and Zhang Yimou, director Xie Fei has been a Professor at the Beijing Film Academy for very many years.
We hope you will discover a remarkable film. With a great central performance by Jiang Wen.
Four months on now. Any more news, particularly on the Britdocs. I'd even put up with another MoC style 'Awful Teaser'The definitive release of a cult-classic, made in Czechoslovakia in 1970. Drawing inspiration from fairy tales, the myth of vampires, early cinema and surrealism and also throwing liberal doses of sex, coming-of-age and religion into the mix, this film is a singularly original achievement.
An account of life in contemporary urban China, which eschews period rural drama and is in stark and brutal contrast to the work made by Fifth Generation directors at that time. Made in 1990 and an important landmark in Chinese cinema.
A film of two halves (!), from South-East Asia, by a contemporary filmmaker whose work we just love in bounds. It becomes the second film of his that we will have released and, although already released in other territories, we could not leave such a wonderful film unreleased in the UK and will include special extras to make it unique.
A number of films from contemporary British documentary filmmakers, who are amongst the best in the world but whose work has remained unreleased on DVD. We aim to correct that through the year.
Our DVD will feature Apichatpong’s short film THIRDWORLD and also contain a newly filmed interview with the director.
Mehelli also promises four or five more Jancsós in that radio interview too - I doubt we'll see another before the year's out, but I'm very glad that they will continue to handle his films.criterionsnob wrote:Confirmation of Tropical Malady from Second Run in the latest newsletter.
Just hope they'll be closer in quality to their My Way Home (or even The Round Up) than to Red and the White.foggy eyes wrote:Mehelli also promises four or five more Jancsós in that radio interview too - I doubt we'll see another before the year's out, but I'm very glad that they will continue to handle his films.
Well, there are decent transfers of Cantata, The Confrontation and Red Psalm already in existence, though Clavis' Silence and Cry is pretty dreadful. But there are also several gaps in the 1960s DVD catalogue, such as Sirocco and Agnus Dei - or a subtitled Confrontation.rs98762001 wrote:Just hope they'll be closer in quality to their My Way Home (or even The Round Up) than to Red and the White.foggy eyes wrote:Mehelli also promises four or five more Jancsós in that radio interview too - I doubt we'll see another before the year's out, but I'm very glad that they will continue to handle his films.
In all cases, we're talking silk purses and sow's ears. None of these labels had access to a decent 35mm print, and none of them were able to do their own telecine. If the source master is in good shape - for instance Cantata, My Way Home and Red Psalm - the resulting DVD is terrific. If it isn't - for instance The Red and the White, Silence and Cry - there's very little that the DVD label can usefully do except try to clean it up as much as possible.Perkins Cobb wrote:It's really a shame that every viable label has already taken their shot at The Red and the White (still Jancso's best-known film, I'd say) and blown it.
I wondered about this as well - I was in London when Blissfully Yours was screened, but gave it a miss as I assumed it would be from the DVD (saw a 35mm print during the Apichatpong retro at the NFT last year). If there are 35mm screenings coming up, I'll definitely make an effort to attend when I'm in the city.FSimeoni wrote:Any ideas on how long this season will run? I am anxiously awaiting announcements of further screenings, especially The Cremator which Ii'd love to see on the big screen! If you can, what are you projecting from, not 35mm?
