Qianjiang Evening News hourly news reporter Lu Fang
This year's 24th Shanghai International Film Festival will officially open on June 11.
On May 11, one month before the opening, the Shanghai Film Festival held a mobilization meeting and safety service technical training meeting for designated screening theaters, and announced the list of screening theaters, and a total of 40 theaters were selected.
These cinemas include 6 new technology viewing experiences, radiating from the central urban area to 5 new cities, and adding a new screening venue of historical significance, the Huangpu Theater, which serves as the "national anthem singing place".
It is reported that on May 24, 1935, the theme song of the film "Children of the Wind and Clouds", written by Tian Han and composed by Nie Er, was sung at the Huangpu Theater.
Many of the theaters selected this time are equipped with specialty cinema halls or high-tech projection technology, including IMAX, Dolby Cinema DOLBY CINEMA, CGS China Giant Screen, CINITY, LUXE, Onyx Led, which fully enhance the audiovisual effect of the film.
This year's Shanghai International Film Festival will also radiate from the downtown area of Shanghai to the five new cities of Shanghai, the Jiading Film Theater in Jiading New Town, the Red Star Film World (Songjiang Kaiyuan Mediterranean Store) in Songjiang New Town, the Shanghai MiG Cinema in Qingpu New Town, the SFC Shanghai Cinema (Nanqiao Bailian Store) in Fengxian New Town, and the SFC Shanghai Film International Cinema (Hong Kong City Store) in Nanhui New Town are all located in the important commercial sub-centers of the five new cities.
Of course, fans are most concerned about what films are shown in these 40 theaters.
Recently, the Shanghai Film Festival has successively announced some of the film lists of each unit. Judging from the list of films currently announced, there are already too many good films this year.
1] "Tribute to the Master" unit
The three masters of this year's "Tribute to the Masters": Italian film score master Ennio Morricone, Hungarian film master Mikros Janso and French film master Chris Marc, their screening list has come out.
Ennio Morricone is one of the world's best-known masters of film scores.
Morricone, who lived almost all his life in Rome, scored more than 500 films and television works, received international recognition, and won numerous awards.
In 2007, the Academy Awards awarded him a lifetime achievement award. In 2016, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for "Eight Wicked Men."
The ennio Morricone classics of this exhibition include:
"Red Dead Redemption", "Dusk Double Dart", "Golden Three Darts", "Once Upon a Time in the West", "An Investigation of an Unquestionable Citizen", "Iron Mask Selflessness" and "Youguo Station".
Stills from Red Dead Redemption
In the mid-1960s, Cros Jansso broke into the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival with "The Hopeless Man", which made Hungarian cinema internationally famous and formed the main visual style of his own work. The elaborately choreographed performance scenes and the long movement of the clouds and flowing water have become the iconic features of Yang Suo.
The works of Cross Yang Suo screened this time include: "Oratorio", "Grooming", "Grooming II", "Grooming No. 3", "Hopeless People", "The Red Army and the White Army", "Silence and Shouting".
Stills from "Oratorio"
André Bazin, the "father of the New Wave of French cinema," considered Chris Mark's films to be "essays recorded in cinema." Prose films are Chris Mark's greatest creative feature, that is, using documentaries as a shell to present the beauty of installation art and convey personal ideas. He breaks with the narrative genre of traditional images, flexibly using montages to collage photographs and moving images, and highlights humor and poetry in the narration.
Chris Mark's works in this exhibition include: Sunday in Beijing, Letter from Siberia, Dream of the Founding of Israel,, Beautiful May, Three Whales, Akira Kurosawa and The Fifth Rank.
Stills from "Sunday in Beijing"
2] "4K Repair" unit
This year's "4K Restoration" unit is equally exciting.
South Korean film master Lee Cangdong's "Mints" shot in flashbacks, American film master Coppola's latest restored "Godfather Trilogy" finale "Godfather 3", Kwan Kam Peng's two star-studded masterpieces "Nguyen Lingyu" and "Rouge Buckle", last year's "Tribute to the Master" section of the two popular Chabrol's famous works "Beautiful Torture" and "Woman Rhymes", Japanese film master Inagaki Hiroshi's "The Life of Unable to Loosen", the first film selected for Japan's "Movie Shunbao" The top ten monster films of the year, Gamera Monster Aerial Showdown.
Stills from Mints
Stills from The Godfather 3
3] "Film Festival Essence" unit
The volume of the unit is huge, and these masterpieces are from well-known film festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, the Tokyo Film Festival, and the Rotterdam Film Festival.
There are two episodes of the exciting Tokyo Film Festival opening film "The Lost Dog: Part I" and "The Lost Dog: The Last Part"; "Quentin of India" surprised the Rotterdam Film Festival's "Pebbles"; the heroine of "Rear Wing Abandoned Soldier" starred in the costume romantic comedy "Emma"; Kazakhstani director Adil Khan Yerkyanov was shortlisted for "Urbsen" and "Yellow Cat" at the Tallinn and Venice Film Festivals, respectively; "The Shepherd Girl and the Seven Songs" shortlisted for the Berlin Film Festival. Iranian director Barami won "Wilderness of the Wilderness" for best film in the Horizon section of the Venice Film Festival; "Children on the Motorcycle", which was shortlisted for the best Argentine film unit at the Mataburata Film Festival; and "The Thief who Stole a Motorcycle", which was selected for the Tokyo Film Festival and pays homage to the Italian neorealist classic.
Stills from "Defeated Dogs: Part I"
In addition, there is "Film and the Death of My Father", which won the best Israeli film at the Jerusalem Film Festival; "Shut Me Up" at the Tokyo Film Festival Audience Award; "The Spy's Wife", which won the Best Director Award at the Venice Film Festival; "Ader's Whimsical World", "Sixteen Springs", which won the official list of the Cannes Film Festival; "Forgetting the Future", which won the Spanish Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film. "Prisoner 760", a family film that won four awards, including the Israel Academy Film Academy Award for Best Director; the road film "The Way Home of the Heart" selected for the Tokyo Film Festival; "Milestone", which won the Best Asian Film Award and the Best Performance Award at the Singapore Film Festival; and "Prisoner 760", which was joined by Oscar queen Judy Foster and "Roll Fu" Benedict Cumberbatch.
Stills from "The Spy's Wife"
There is also "If the Wind Falls" and "Wartime" that was selected for the official film list of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival; "I Never Cry", which won three awards such as the best new actor at the 2020 Polish Film Festival; "The Girl with a Bright Future" who won the 2021 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay; "The Sound of Metal", which won the 2021 Academy Award for Best Sound and Best Editing; and "Zanka Contact", which won the Best Actress Award in the Horizon Unit of the Venice Film Festival 2020. "Miracle Zenia", which was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 2020 Venice Film Festival; "Don't Hate", which won the Best Italian Film Award at the Venice Film Festival 2020; "The Guardian of the Same Table", which won the 2021 Berlin Film Festival Panorama Unit, and "The Great Wanda", which won the Audience Choice Award at the Vancouver Film Festival 2020.
Stills from "Sound of Metal"
As well as "Suad", which was selected for the screening unit of the Berlin Film Festival in 2021; "Needle And Love", which won two awards in the Greek Film Section of the 2020 Tallinn Night Film Festival; "Needle Andreal", which was shortlisted for the New Generation Youth Unit of the Berlin Film Festival in 2021; "Threesome", which won the 2021 White Elephant Award for Best Cinematography and Best Actor, "Fisherman of the Sea", which won the Special Jury Prize of the World Film Unit of the Sundance Film Festival in 2021. "The Balance of Yuyuko", which won the 2020 Busan Film Festival New Wave Award; "Son of the Sun", which won the 2020 Venice Film Festival New Actor Award for his first "electrocution"; "Dr. Lisa", which won the 2021 Russian Golden Eagle Award for Best Soundtrack; "Autopsy", which was shortlisted for the 2020 Warsaw Film Festival; and "Fall", which was selected for the official film list of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.
4] Unit "Focus on Italy"
This year's "Focus on Italy" section once again joined hands with Italy's largest and world's second largest film and television production base, the Ciudad Giuseppe in Rome, Italy, and recommended these ten Italian film masterpieces.
"Macaluso's Past", which won the 2020 Venice Film Festival Parsinti Award for Best Picture and Best Actress; "Anna", a secret room mystery film that reveals the deadly secret of a female writer; "No More Silence", a comedy about how women in the workplace counterattacked; "Carnivore", which won the Best Screenplay Award in the Horizon unit of the Venice Film Festival in 2020; a restored re-cut version of the gangster film "Gomorrah", which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival; the tear-jerking romance film "She Says To Me Again" that presents transcendence of life and death in multiple dimensions. The Alzheimer's film "Memories of Sanremo", which seeks love in the black hole of memory; "Starry Sky in the Slums" about the past and present lives of the slums of the Ghetto of Rome; "Romantic Raiders", a pair of men and women who do not fight and do not know each other; "Our Father", which reconstructs the assassination attempt during the social unrest in Italy in the 1970s.
Stills from "Gomorrah"
5] "Multiple Perspectives" unit
The film list includes: the Portuguese film "Under the Haze", which directly attacks the underground cybercrime in Europe; the crime film "Akira's Escape" from Canada; Kenichi Matsuyama's "Blue", which performs the tragic song of boxing; the latest Iranian film "Walnut Tree" starring the Berlin Film Festival film Emperor Peman Moadi; "Tokyo Noble Woman" in which Motowaki Mai and Mizuhara Yoshiko play different women's encounters; "Isthmus" about the dangerous situation of the masseuse; and the new work "The Confused War of the Serious Band" by ghost independent director Akira Ikeda. A new theatrical version of the popular drama "Signal Long-Term Unresolved Incident Search Class" starring Kentaro Sakaguchi and Kazuki Kitamura, a new theatrical version of the Spanish suspense film "Perfect Enemy" based on the best-selling book.
Stills from "Under the Haze"
In addition, the big-screen rock climbing thriller "Magic Mountain" that makes people see soft legs; "Doctor Night", which was selected for the official film list of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival; the epic masterpiece "The Soprano and the Family", starring Tsuyoshi Ayano and directed by Michito Fujii; "First Love", which is known as the strongest face of Japan, and Nakamura, who is also co-starring in the popular koso, "First Love"; the family love comedy "Crazy Life" that treats mothers as children "Slippery Walk", inspired by the collection of short songs by The Japanese short song poet Shinichiro Hagiwara, who committed suicide at the age of 32; "Wandering Apu", which continued the film classic "Apu Trilogy"; "Just a Child"; "Just a Child"; "Ghost Girl", which won a special prize from the jury in the "All Japan National Beauty Girl Competition"; "Color Delicious Spicy", which made people have a lot of appetite; "There is no other choice" that embodies the independent courage of Iranian women.
6] SIFF animation unit
The Shanghai International Film Festival has screened "New Century Evangelion Theater Edition DEATH(TRUE)²" and "Evangelion Theater Edition Air/True for You" in 2019, forming a ticket-hard-to-find event.
This year, the Festival will present fans with the first three films of the new theater version, "Evangelion New Theater Edition: Prologue", "Evangelion New Theater Edition: Broken", and "Evangelion New Theater Edition: Q".
7】 Toei 70th anniversary commemorative release unit
Officially established in 1951, Toei Pictures, as a "rising star" in the Japanese film industry, quickly became the fourth largest film company after Shochiku, Toho, and Daiei at that time. Toei has gone through 70 years this year, and the Shanghai Film Festival has selected eight Toei treasures to present fans with a nostalgic feast of Japanese film.
Films screened include: "Rice", "Miyamoto Musashi", "The Cruel Story of Bushido", "Shinkansen Bombing", "The Life of Hanako Oniryin", "Tenkoku Station", "RailroadMan" and "Nagasaki Walking Song".
Stills from "The RailroadMan"
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