This week's "Week of Film and Television Circle", Bajie continues to evaluate this week's fresh film and television information for everyone.
On the domestic side, theaters have opened their doors, and major movies have been fixed. Looking at the Chinese film market in September, a wave of new films is about to be released; in addition to the films worth looking forward to, the 15th Changchun Film Festival will open on September 5. On September 1, the "Golden Deer Award" announced the list of shortlisted films, and 15 masterpieces competed fiercely; "Creed" was officially released in China on September 4, with a Douban score of 8.4 points.
In terms of internationality, the Venice Film Festival, one of the three major film festivals in Europe, was grandly opened on September 2, becoming the first offline international film festival in the world film industry in recent months; the movie "007: No Time to Die" released an official trailer; "Gloria on the Road" released new stills, which are scheduled to be launched on Amazon on September 30.
Domestic chapter
1. Two Chinese-language films were shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival
Directed by Xu Anhua and starring Ma Sichun, Yu Feihong, Peng Yuyan, Zhang Junning, etc., the film "The First Burning Incense" was shortlisted for the non-competition screening unit of this year's Venice Film Festival, and the poster was exposed. Previously, the 77th Venice Film Festival announced that the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement was awarded to director Xu Anhua. At the age of 73, she became the first female director in the world to receive this award.
The movie "First Burning Incense" is adapted from Zhang Ailing's famous work "Agarwood Crumbs • First Burning Incense", which was launched on the occasion of the centenary of Zhang Ailing's birth. The film tells the story of a series of love stories triggered by Shanghai schoolgirl Ge Weilong (Ma Sichun) who goes to Hong Kong to study, goes to her aunt Mrs. Leung (Yu Feihong), and is attracted to playboy Georgie Qiao (Peng Yuyan).
Stills from the movie "The First Incense"
Previously, director Xu Anhua twice adapted Zhang Ailing's novels, both loyal to the original. The movie "Love in the Fallen City" retains a lot of dialogue in the novel, and the other film "Half Life" restores the mission and key plot, after 23 years, the director once again chose Zhang Ailing's novel. The film also has Wang Anyi, Du Kefeng, Hetian Huimei and other master classes involved, I have to say that Leta Sister is very much looking forward to.
The film has both a Shanghai flavor and a Hong Kong style. In particular, the aunt Mrs. Liang, played by Yu Feihong, has a variety of styles, which has a different taste.
Another highlight is that the movie poster of "The First Burning Incense" was created by the well-known poster designer Huang Hai, which is also the second time he has cooperated with Xu Anhua to design the movie poster after "Golden Age".
Overall, the whole poster has some stripes, like a weaving picture, the most important is a pair of women's hands; enlarged poster, Bajie found the delicacy of the designer Huang Hai. This is not a person's hands, long nails, bright pink nail polish, wearing a gold ring, slightly orchid fingers of the left hand, representing the feminine aunt Mrs. Liang. The right hand, which is flat and simple and naturally gestured, represents the heroine Ge Weilong.
The two beautiful hands are locked together by a pair of gorgeous bracelets, which is the "diamond bracelet" that Situ Xie once gave them one in the story, symbolizing being imprisoned by materialism and unable to extricate themselves, and also like handcuffs that tie the two aunts and nephews together.
Details of the poster for the movie "First Incense"
Produced by Jia Zhangke and directed by young mainland director Wang Jing, "More Than Endless" released an international version of the poster and was shortlisted for the horizon unit of this year's Venice Film Festival. The film is based on a true story, focusing on the story of the little people's North Drift, starring Bai Ke, Miao Miao, Zhang Songwen, Song Yang, Wang Yiquan, Zhou Yemang, Jia Zhangke, Qin Hailu, Fox and so on.
This is the first work of wang Jing, a young mainland director, and also a major attempt by him for realistic themes. Although he is a new director, his qualifications are not "new". Since joining Jia Zhangke's team in 2010, Wang Jing has ten years of executive director experience, participating in "Children of Jianghu", "Mountains and Rivers", "Hello! Mr. Tree" and many other works.
The first concept poster was also sent out, which has both a retro atmosphere and some creativity and subversion. Several faceless people stood among the vast beings.
The film focuses on the special period in 2003, telling the struggle and persistence of the little people "North Drift", and finally sticking to the bottom line, achieving counterattack and sublimation, and conveying the attitude of "not ending" life.
As director Wang Jing said:
"Urban space has changed dramatically, lifestyles have changed dramatically, and I have chosen to focus my lens on people's faces. I believe that the longing, hesitation, pain and dignity on those faces should be the clearest part of the memory of the times. ”
Bai Ke as the protagonist is subversive. When it comes to him, I can't help but think of the funny appearance of Wang Sledgehammer in "Never Expected", this time Bai Ke completely broke away from the inherent comedy image on the big screen for the first time, and interpreted a more realistic way in "More Than Endless".
In addition, the film was also shortlisted for the New Discoveries section of the Toronto International Film Festival, and the official website commented: "Based on a true story, a journalist changed the fate of 120 million people with a pen. ”
2. "Nomadland", directed by Chinese director Zhao Ting, was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 77th Venice Film Festival
Chinese director Zhao Ting's film "No Place" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 77th Venice Film Festival and will compete for the 2021 Academy Awards.
Francis McDormand on the set of "The Land of NoBody."
Starring Oscar-winning actresses Francis McDoughman and David Stryzeen, the film tells the story of a woman in her 60s who lost everything in the Great Depression and embarked on a journey through the American West as a modern nomad living in a van. In addition, Zhao Ting's Marvel movie "Eternals" is about to be released.
3. The musical film "Far Away from the Red River" will be unveiled at the Venice Film Festival
On August 31, the musical film "Far Away from the Red River" premiered in the marketing section of the 77th Venice Film Festival in 2020 and was shortlisted for the "FILMING ITALY BEST MOVIE" section. The film is produced by Jiang Xiaorong, supervised by Yu Rongguang, directed by Zhao Jia, and starring Yu Rongguang, Pan Hong, Gao Taiyu, Zhu Xiaoyu and so on.
In a group of exposed posters, natural scenery and humanistic history go hand in hand, with both classical artistic conception and national customs, and are full of visual beauty and spiritual impact.
Through the perspective of Yu Rongguang, Pan Hong and Gao Taiyu's travels, the film explores the far side of the Red River, showing the beauty of the Red River and the beauty of China in the far and near, fast and slow, ancient and modern, poetic and everyday.
In "The Distant Side of the Red River", tradition and modernity, ancient and fashion, nationality and the world echo, with light and shadow and singing to give birth to the unique artistic conception of "people in heaven and earth, suddenly like a long-distance traveler", highlighting the unique beautiful scene of the Red River and colorful Yunnan, showing the world a vivid and beautiful Chinese and oriental charm.
The film once again tells the story of China from an international perspective, experiences the humanities of the Red River with travel experience, and shows the beauty of the Orient with brilliant light and shadow, and the theme song is composed by Dong Dongdong, lyrics by Chen Xi, sung by Sun Nan and Gao Taiyu.
4. The 77th Venice International Film Festival VR unit global official screening (China Station) was launched
The global official screening of the VR unit of this year's film festival will be held online and offline from September 2 to 12, and VeeR's two shortlisted works "60 Seconds in My Life" and "Ajax All Powerful" will be premiered worldwide during the film festival to meet more audiences at home and abroad.
Produced by VeeR and MeDoc, the documentary "60 Seconds of My Life" collects different stories that happened to take place in multiple cities in China at exactly 10 a.m. on February 20, 2020, recording the time, space and emotions of different lives at that moment.
"60 Seconds of My Life"
With the development of digital technology, the boundary between virtual and reality is blurred, and the integration and discussion of technology and art are becoming more and more frequent. Immersive theater, immersive narrative, VR games and other content forms, while enriching the senses, also allow the viewer to no longer be a bystander of the story, but a person in the play. This screening at the China Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum is the first time that the VR section of the Venice Film Festival has been brought to China.
5. The 15th Changchun Film Festival opened on September 5
The 15th China Changchun Film Festival will be held from September 5 to 10, and the theme of this year's film festival is "New Era, New Cradle, New Strength". In addition, the "Golden Deer Awards" will award 10 awards such as the Best Film Award, the Jury Award, the Best Director Award, the Best Actor Award, the Best Actress Award, the Best Screenplay Award, the Best Cinematography Award, the Best Music Award, the Best Technology Award, and the Best Debut Award.
This year's Changchun Film Festival Golden Deer Award shortlisted films: "Half a Comedy", "Spring Tide", "The Road to the Sky", "Huang Danian", "Then The Wind", "Climber", "Like a Shadow", "Beneficiary", "My Himalayas", "My Motherland and Me", "Manslaughter", "Hidden Knife in Laughter", "Little Q", "Distant Pastoral", "Captain China" A total of 15 works.
The Chinese section of this year's Changchun Film Festival has a special "Beautiful People in the North, Unique and Independent" Women's Film Festival, which will bring fans a series of excellent works participated in and led by Chinese female filmmakers, including "Ten Thousand Arrows Through the Heart", "Xiao Hong" and "Children of jianghu".
6. The movie "Creed" premiered in China, and word of mouth was polarized
In the early morning of September 4, the big screens in many parts of the country were ignited by the movie "Creed".
As the final chapter of Nolan's "time and space trilogy", "Creed", inheriting the consistent "brain-burning" tradition of his film, playing with the concept of "reversing time and space", creating an unprecedented time and space puzzle, trying to break the ceiling of "time and space", so the film presents reverse bullets, regurgitated waves and retrograde cars... Regarding the plot of the film, Bajie will not spoil here.
Speaking of Nolan, i think many people have seen his works, "Batman" series, "Inception", "Interstellar", etc., almost every one of them is a high-quality boutique. "Creed", which was released just one day ago, the reputation has been polarized: fans who like it directly call "Nolan is a genius", and many people say that they will watch it several times, "After watching "Creed", I think "Interstellar" and "Inception" are not brain-burning"; but some viewers have bluntly said, "In the clouds and fog, I can't understand it".
The film "Creed" was video-linked with director Christopher Nolan at the Chinese premiere, and the director explained why he was interested in the concept of time and the different ways to see time:
"Because it defines our existence, it's hard to talk about and understand."
Film has a close relationship with time, and the audience watches and accepts the film's depiction of time through the camera. Compared with other mediums, the film's interpretation of time presents a very unique power.
7. "Vanguard" is scheduled to be released nationwide on National Day
On September 1, the super action movie "Vanguard" released the latest poster and is scheduled to be released on September 30, giving the audience a "New Year's gift". Directed by Tang Jili and starring Jackie Chan, Allen and Zhu Zhengting, the film tells the story of the cross-border rescue of the vanguard squad to fight against criminal groups and rescue hostages of Chinese enterprises.
The film is not just an action movie, it's a comedy. "Laughing, laughing and playing" is how this film opens. Comedian Allen will present his "playing" method in the film, and director Tang Jili still uses the durian he loves to appear on camera.
As the only global action blockbuster that can be seen on the screen in 2020, "Vanguard" will take the audience to "travel the world" through the screen, making up for the regret that many people can't travel. The film spans three continents in Asia, Africa and Europe, is filmed in land, sea and air, and is filmed in London, Africa, the Middle East, Dubai and other places. The spectacular view, coupled with the action scenes, the determination of the vanguard to protect its compatriots in the world is shocking.
Such a super action blockbuster changed to the National Day file, has it entered your National Day movie list?
8. Liu Xueyao, the first generation of film artists in New China, died
According to changying group news, Liu Xueyao, the first generation of film artists in New China and an old artist of changying, died in Changchun on the evening of August 31, 2020, at the age of 99.
Liu Xueyao worked as an artist for Dongying (the predecessor of Changying) before his death, and participated in the art work of the first feature film of the People's Film", "Bridge", which is considered to have "created a precedent for the art design of new Chinese films". He has personally painted realistic art sets, and has also gone to North Korea to restore the trench tunnels for the classic film "Shangganling". In 2013, Liu Xueyao won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 29th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards, and the evaluation given to him by the jury was: "True and false, false and true, all over the Danqing Ying painting deep".
The first feature film "The Bridge"
Film artist Liu Xueyao participated in the creation of more than 40 films such as "Bridge", "White Soldier", "Liu Hulan", "When the Grapes Are Ripe", "Mysterious Traveling Companion", "Shangganling", "Daughter of the Party", "Bianzhai Beacon", "Little Sister Xian", "Dou E'e Wrong", "Wall Head Horse" and so on.
9. The movie "When a Man Is in Love" is finished and is expected to be released in 2021
Adapted from the 2014 South Korean film of the same name, "When a Man Is in Love" was recently released, produced by Cheng Weihao, directed by Yin Zhenhao, and starring Qiu Ze and Xu Weining.
The film is a male love film about a small gangster Ah Cheng (Qiu Ze) who earns a living from a debt collector, who one day meets the creditor's daughter Hao Ting (Xu Weining), who is deeply attracted by her sense of responsibility for taking care of her unconscious father and shouldering his father's debt. Ah Cheng took care of everything for Haoting, and just when Haoting finally let down her guard and accepted the pursuit, the successive changes made their future road more and more bumpy.
The movie "When a Man Is in Love" is the first cooperation between Qiu Ze and Xu Weining since their debut, and the chemical reaction between the two powerful actors exceeded the standard when shooting, showing a very strong sense of CP. In the "romantic moment" stills exposed this time, Haoting's intimate interaction with Ah Cheng's shaving in the barbershop, sweet eyes, happiness overflowing the screen.
10. "Masquerade Hotel" was released in China on September 4
Directed by Masayuki Suzuki, written by Michio Okada, starring Takuya Kimura, and starring Masami Nagasawa, the film Masquerade Hotel, based on Keigo Higashino's novel of the same name, was released nationwide on September 4.
This is Takuya Kimura's first time playing a criminal police officer and the first time she has worked with Masami Nagasawa.
The opening scene is filled with tension, with a serial murder in Tokyo and "the next crime scene in a five-star hotel"
The story of "Masquerade Hotel" takes place in a high-end hotel in Tokyo, where a serial murder is announced, and kosuke Nitta (Takuya Kimura), a criminal police officer who investigates the matter, is closely bound to the hotel front desk, Naomi Yamagishi (Masami Nagasawa), and unfolds a series of contents through the collision of human feelings and culture between the hotel staff and the criminal police.
Foreign chapter
1. The 77th Venice Film Festival was grandly opened on September 2
This year's Venice International Film Festival will be held in Venice from September 2 to 12, and will be divided into the main competition unit, the horizon unit, the non-competition unit, and the Biennale Film Academy project. Although the number of films selected for this year's official unit has decreased, a total of 50 to 55 films have been selected, about 20 films have been shortlisted for the main competition unit called "Venezia77", and the remaining films have fallen into the horizon and non-competition units.
Main Competition Section: Hilal Baydarov "In Between Dying", Emma Dante "Sisters Macaruso", Mona Fast Oder "New World", Michel Frank "The Dream of a Few", Nicole Garcia "Lovers", Amos Guitai "Laila in Halfa", Andrei Konchalovsky "Dear Comrades", Kurosawa Kiyoshi "Wife of Spies", Majid Majidi "Sun Children", Cornelius Mondruzzo, Suzanne Nikyarelli, Miss Marx, Claudio Noce, Padre Nostro, Gianfranco Rossi, Margozata Schmovzka Never Gonna Snow Again, Chaitanya Tamhane The Disciple, Julia von Heinz, Tomorrow And The Entire World", Asmira Zhibanić, "Quo Vadis, Aida?", Zhao Ting," "The Land of No One".
The opening ceremony of the 77th Venice Film Festival released a special short film to review the representative works of Kate Blanchett, the chairman of the jury of the main competition unit, including "The Strange Affair of Benjamin Button", "I'm Not There", "Elizabeth", "Thor 3", "The Lord of the Rings", "Carol" and other classic works.
2. "Shoelaces" kicks off the Venice Film Festival
Directed by "Our Lives" director Daniele Luketty and starring Italian film stars Alba Lorvache and Luigi Lo Cacho, the new film "Shoelaces" premiered as the opening film.
Through the perspective of the husband, the wife, and the memories of the two children, the whole thing is restored from three perspectives, and the different and inaccessible situations experienced by each person in the family are revealed, the false veil of the warm pulse of contemporary marriage and family is unveiled, and the truth of marriage is fragmented under sexual liberation and advocacy of personal freedom.
Laces is part of Stalnoine's "Family Trilogy", the other two being Confessions and Jokes.
3. The movie "007: No Time to Die" released a new trailer and began to be released worldwide in November
The new film in the series 007: No Time to Die is the twenty-fifth installment of the James Bond Film Series, directed by Carey Fowon (True Detective), edited by Phoebe Waller Bridge (London Life, Killing Eve), and released a new official trailer (Chinese character) on September 3, which is very exciting, James Bond continues to be starred by Daniel Craig, Ben Weshao, Leia Saidu, Ralph Fiennes, Naomi Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Rory Kinnel, Christopher Waltz returns.
"The mission to change everything begins". Oscar-winning actress Rami Marek plays the villain to take revenge and kill millions of people, and Bond has a "dangerous secret" around him.
Anna de Armas, who worked with Craig on Blade Out of the Sheath, transforms into a cool gun girl, and Rushner Lynch (Captain Marvel) plays the new "00" agent who temporarily takes over the title of 007 due to Bond's retirement.
The film tells the story of Bond who has retired from the army and enjoyed a peaceful life in Jamaica. But his years were short, and an old friend, Felix Leiter of the CIA, came to the door and asked him to rescue a kidnapped scientist, a task more dangerous than expected, allowing Bond to find a mysterious villain armed with dangerous technology. It will be released abroad in November, and the Chinese mainland to be finalized.
4. "Gloria on the Road" released new stills, scheduled for September 30 Amazon online
Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander starred in the biopic "Gloria on the Road" starring American feminist pioneer Gloria Steinham, which released new stills and went online on Amazon on September 30.
Directed by Julie Tymo ("The Road of Akira Kurosawa," "Frida") and written by Tony-nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl ("In the Next Room," The New World), based on Steinham's autobiography of the same name, it tells how he went from journalist and activist to a pioneer of the affirmative and feminist movement. In recent years, Steinham has served as an event organizer and speaker around the world as a media spokesperson on affirmative action issues.
5. "The Happiest Season" released new stills, scheduled to be released in North America on November 25
Director Kerry Duval released three new stills from her TV movie The Happiest Season through People magazine, featuring Kristen Stewart Jr. and Mackenzie Davis, who will play a couple and stage a holiday love story about coming out, proposing and family.
Director Duval said romantic comedies are a common genre of movies in the year-end holidays, but LGBT plots rarely appear in such films, and she was eager to see a holiday movie that reflected her experience, so she decided to make one herself. In addition to being both a writer and director, Duval played a role in the film, along with Alison Brie, Dan Levy, and Victor Gabo. The film will premiere on November 25.
This is this week's "Film and Television Circle of the Week", what films did you add to the wish list?
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Author: Luo Yuting