Attentive viewers will surely remember that on Valentine's Day this year, we announced that one of the most classic works of the silent film era, starring legendary actress Louise Brooks, would be screened. This year marks the 90th anniversary of the film's release, so this screening is of great significance. The unit that includes this film is the "Film History Recommendation" unit under the "SIFF Classic".
Since the birth of the prototype of curatorial ideas in 2018, SIFF officially launched the "Film History Recommendation" fixed unit this year, trying to review the film history of the past hundred years with today's vision, and to select recommended film history masterpieces from all over the world in ten years, rediscovering and defining classics.
Eager audiences are also speculating about what anniversaries will be launched in SIFF's classic "Film History Recommendation", and today I will introduce all the works in this unit at once: from the anti-war film "I Accuse" directed by French film master Abel Guns 100 years ago, to "Guan shan Feidu" directed by Western film master John Ford 80 years ago; from the Resistance movement film "The Silence of the Sea" directed by French film master Melville 70 years ago, to the comedy film "Yasujiro Ozu" directed by Japanese film master Yasujiro Ozu 60 years ago. From "Midnight Cowboy", which won the Oscar for Best Picture 50 years ago, to "Bronte Sisters" starring three beautiful french stars 40 years ago; from "Cinema Paradiso" 30 years ago when Italian film master Tornadore won the Cannes Jury Prize, to "Floating Rhapsody" directed by German film director Fayt Helmer 20 years ago, this large unit that runs through the history of cinema is gorgeously collected in "Fish Tank" by British female director Andrea Arnold 10 years ago.
I complain
The Accusations
- 1919 -
Highlights
Precious real war scenes of World War I
Classic anti-war film by French film maestro Abel Guns. The film was conceived from friends around Gunns who participated in world war I, and with the encouragement of the boss of the Pathé Company, Charles Emi, Guns took a camera and went to the front line to shoot the battlefield and photograph the real situation of the famous Battle of St. Michael. Gunners uses human form to form the word "I accuse" at the beginning of the film, and at the end of the film, more than 2,000 real World War I soldiers are used to star in the famous "Return of the Dead" segment, becoming one of the most magnificent counter-battlefields in the history of cinema.
Guan Shan FeiDu
Stagecoach
- 1939 -
A milestone in the history of Westerns
One of the most classic Westerns by American film master John Ford, it was also the first of Ford's many works to shoot monument valley with the visual symbol of a Western. The film went unnoticed at first because the studios thought the high-cost Western was obsolete and Ford insisted on using John Wayne, who was still unknown at the time, as the lead role. After the film was released, it won two Oscars for Best Supporting Actor and Best Score, and John Wayne became a big star, and it ushered in a new era of Westerns. Orson Wells claimed to have watched the film no less than forty times in order to learn Ford's editing techniques.
The silence of the sea
The Silence of The Sea
- 1949 -
Crime Film Master's anti-war debut
The Silence of the Sea is a sensational short story published in 1942 that is as sacred as the Bible to French resistance fighters. In 1947, the French film master Jean-Pierre Melville put it on the screen without either authorial authorization or permission from the film union, and it took only 27 days to shoot. Upon learning of this, the author summoned several resistance fighters to form a jury, and if these people were not satisfied with the film, Melville had to burn the negatives on the spot. As a result, the film received unanimous praise, and the subsequent release made Melville famous.
Good morning
Good Morning
- 1959 -
A rare comedy film by Ozu
"Good Morning" is the second color film directed by Japanese film master Yasujiro Ozu, depicting community life in the suburbs of Tokyo. Ozu loosely refurbishes his 1932 silent film masterpiece, I Was Born, But... and through the thread of buying a television set, he wanders the world of adults and children, and uses quiet humor to exhaust the gradual changes in the values of Japanese middle-class families during the economic take-off period. The film was completed by Shochiku in 2013 for 4K scanning and restoration, and the film's post-color grading was directed by Masashi Komori, the cinematographer of Family Suffering.
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy
- 1969 -
The only X-rated best picture in Oscar history
"Midnight Cowboy" tells the story of the friendship between two fallen people struggling at the bottom of New York society, when the unknown John Walter and the budding Dustin Hoffman contributed quite a superb performance, both of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The film eventually won three Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Because the film was rated X in the U.S. film rating that year, it became the only X-rated film in film history to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
Brontë sisters
The Bronte Sisters
- 1979 -
The peak performance of the three diva in the French film industry
The three great divas of the French film industry, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-Frances and Isabelle Huppel starred in a biopic about the three sisters of british writer Brontë at the peak of their respective appearances. French director André Teichner used the English and French methods of shooting, and invited French semiotician and philosopher Roland Barthes to play the role of the literary hero Thackeray for the first time, which was also the master's only experience of electrocution. The film was shortlisted for the main competition section of that year's Cannes Film Festival.
Cinema Paradiso
Cinema Paradiso
- 1989 -
A big screen experience at least once in a lifetime
A classic work known to fans all over the world, Italian film master Giuseppe Tornadore pays tribute to movies, film screenings and film fans by depicting a friendship between a small-town cinema projectionist and a child. In 1989, he won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and later won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The version screened at the Shanghai International Film Festival is the latest 4K digital restoration of the film. In the face of such a good opportunity, if you don't watch "Cinema Paradiso" once on the big screen of the cinema, you are really embarrassed to say that you are a movie fan.
Floating rhapsody
Tuvalu
- 1999 -
A fantasy film with only 9 lines of dialogue
The blockbuster feature film debut of German director Fayt Helmer is also an experimental film that pays homage to German Expressionism, with a very imaginative and romantic atmosphere. Through the story of the male protagonist saving the public bath, the past and the future are skillfully integrated. The film uses color film, and presents a variety of dyeing effects, the visual perception is extremely unique, and the underwater photography is even more beautiful, winning the Bavarian Film Award for Best New Director. The male and female protagonists are played by the famous French film star Denis Lavan ("Lovers of the New Bridge") and the Russian actress Chulpan Hamatova ("Goodbye Lenin").
fish tank
Fish Tank
- 2009 -
The rebellious growth of the flower girl
The second feature film of Andrea Arnold, britain's most famous female director of our time, tells the story of Mia, a rebellious 15-year-old girl, who grew up. The film focuses on the psychological and physical transformation of adolescent girls from a unique female perspective, and the vivid and natural performance of 18-year-old Katie Jarvis is one of the important factors in the success of the film, and the performance of "Law Shark" Michael Fassbinder also adds a lot to the film. The film won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and was named one of the "100 Best British Cinemas of All Time" by Time Out magazine.
At this point, all the films of the "Film History Recommendation" section of the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival have been released. So next year in this unit, what video would you like to see?
Stay tuned to us and get the blockbuster list of the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival for the first time.
Note: In case of change in the film schedule, the actual schedule shall prevail.
The 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival film list summary
Tribute to the Master 丨 Angelopoulos
Broadcast | Rebuild | Hunter | Beekeeper | Scenery in the fog | Crying Prairie | The dust of time
Tribute to the Master | Bresson
Death Row Jailbreak 丨 Pickpocket 丨 Gentle Woman 丨 Dreamer Four Nights 丨 Samurai Lan Shino 丨 Money
Diary of a Village Priest | The Trial of Joan of Arc | The Donkey Bartha | Muchette
Tribute to the Master 丨 Frederick Wiseman
Monrovia in Indiana 丨 Dance at berkeley 丨 National Gallery: Ballet at the Paris Opera
Tribute to the Master 丨 Casaveti
Shadow 丨 Face 丨 Husband Jun 丨 Affected Woman 丨 Premiere Night 丨 Female Gloria 丨 Love Torrent
SIFF classic 丨 film history recommended
Pandora's Box
SIFF Animation 丨 Akira | Whitesnake | Battle of Venus
Evangelion Theater Edition: DEATH TRUE(2) | Evangelion Theater Edition: Air/True for You
SIFF Documentary | Agnès on Varda
4K fix
Schindler's list | The word | Tiger mouth escape | Black tulips | Distant sounds
Tokyo Monogatari | Red Line zone | Injiro's story 1 | Injiro's Story 8: Injiro's Love Song
Special planning "Moon"
Lunar Travels | Extraordinary journey | Astronomer's Dream | Chang'e in the middle of the month | Astronaut | Moon
Blu-ray | The first person to land on the moon | Space Pioneer | The first person to land on the moon | The person who bought the moon | Apollo 13
The essence of the film festival
Thank God | System Breaker | Juvenile Mafia
The Book of Images | Three faces | Curtis | | migratory birds Small itching | Alice | Two Frida | kingdom
Who do you think I am | Arctic | Private wars | If Beale Street could talk, | Want or don't | Take me to a good place | Bastard Colin, Happy New Year | Home is a pit | Ray and Liz | | day We are all wooden people | The beast of the forest | Figure Skating Queen | Bankers' resistance | Rojo | little guy | Work her
President's Film Festival
Cocoon | The town is | May cloudy days | Far away | Perfect for breakup season
Three monkeys | Asia Minor Past | Hibernation | Wild pear tree
Focus on Italy
10 days without mom | Champion | The Bengalis | in Rome The first king | stage mother and son
Hollywood series
Men in Black | Men in Black 2 | Men in Black 3
IMAX
International Space Station | Hubble Telescope | Beautiful Planet | Gravity | Interstellar
Deep Sea Hunting wonder | Underwater World | Back to the Wild | Madagascar: Island of Lemurs
Rainbow Movie
The Pibriar Ancient Book Ofe Incident Hand Post | Backstreet Girls | Neighbors live together 2 | To be alive is to love | Hit-and-run, the best worst day | Musashi | Cat with Grandpa
Focus on Germany
Cleo: If I could turn back the clock | Siren | Bra Wonder | Hercules | Goldfish | Take a name | Double-sided sweetheart | Cold feet
kaleidoscope
T-34 tank | Passenger ships that travel through the centuries | Transferor | Unearthing the Truth | Cage | A job with a film | Dancing and singing | TGM Talk | Echo | Tunnel Horror | Son of Denmark | De Vriveli | Divorce party | Remich's Encounter | Claire Darling | Happy New Year | Cold Blade | The last queen of Romania | The smell of the daughter | Buoy | The second love affair | Fast-track family