Poster of the 11th Beijing International Film Festival.
The 11th Beijing International Film Festival was held in Beijing from September 21 to September 29, with a total of 17 unique screening units, and nearly 300 masterpieces from all over the world will be collectively unveiled. In the face of so many films with different themes, how should the audience and friends choose? The Beijing News reporter exclusively interviewed 22 Chinese filmmakers, including Directors such as Li Shaohong, Li Yu, Chen Zhengdao, Huang Xiaoming, Yang Mi, Duan Yihong, Qin Hailu and other actors, asking them to recommend the best films in their minds to the audience, here are both "Blue, White and Red", "The Mountain Festival Examination", "The Godfather 3" and other master works review, as well as "Star Trek" trilogy, "Win the Championship", "Captain China" and other genre films, for the tangled fans and friends to make a reference.
——New Work Express——
Huang Xuan.
Actor Huang Xuan recommended the movie: "Wuhai"
Screening Unit: China Stories
Director: Zhou Ziyang
Starring: Huang Xuan, Yang Zishan
"Wuhai" poster.
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"Wuhai" tells the story of a small urban person who is wrapped in the pressure of family and career, and gradually moves to the brink of collapse. This story confronts the "suffering of the family", which can be seen everywhere but is often ignored. Because we rarely have the opportunity to face the deep desires of modern people, these problems are too bloody for us to look at. But not looking doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Zhou Qingyuan. Photography by Zheng Xinqia of the Beijing News
Director Zhou Qingyuan recommended movies: "Chance and Imagination"
Screening Unit: Focus Filmmaker - Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Starring: Furukawa Kotone, Genri
Poster of Chance and Imagination.
The film continues the director's narrative approach of sticking to the character but remaining calm and restrained, delicate and accurate without a trace. The "accidental" and "imaginary" life fragments composed of three short films are like moments that quietly enter the emotions and encounters of different characters, which are real and moving and have a faint literary atmosphere. I like that kind of natural and smooth performance, and I like the kind of laying out that is full of tenderness but hidden irony. Let go of the pressure of chai rice oil and salt in reality, release your imagination, and let the movie take you to feel a chance encounter outside of life.
——Masterpiece——
Huang Xiaoming.
Actor Huang Xiaoming recommended the movie: "The Godfather 3 Finale: The Death of Mike Corleone"
Projection Unit: Fix the classic
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Al Pacino, Andy Garcia
The Godfather 3 poster.
In the flashback passage at the end of "Godfather 3", accompanied by the soft and sweet "Country Knight" interlude, the old godfather Mike recalls his past with the Sicilian girl Apolonia who fell in love at first sight, danced three times with his beloved daughter Mary, and his strong wife Kay, and these precious and soft beauty have withered in front of you, which may be the biggest tragedy. The lonely and desolate trumpet at the beginning of "The Godfather" seems to echo in the ears again. Take 10 hours to revisit the Godfather trilogy.
Duan Yihong. Photography by Zheng Xinqia of the Beijing News
Actor Duan Yihong recommended the movie: "The Examination of the Mountain Festival"
Screening Unit: Master Review - Masahira Imamura
Director: Masahira Imamura
Starring: Ken Kashigata, Sumiko Sakamoto
Poster of "The Examination of the Mountain Festival".
"The Examination of the Mountain Festival" is the representative work of Masahira Imamura, which won the Palme d'Or at the 36th Cannes Film Festival. This is a shocking film that confronts primitive desires and cuts through human nature with a knife, and I don't have many spoilers here. Masahira Imamura said, I will write maggots until I die. The artistic expressiveness of the film is bold and strong. I still remember the last snow in the film covering the vast white bones, and the picture of mother and child looking at each other... The false soothing and the cruelty of self-deception is truly breathless. The actor of this film, Sakamoto Sachiko, is also extremely dedicated. The actor who played Ah Lingbo really pulled out four teeth for the sake of reality. Behind a classic movie, there are countless people who are pouring out their hearts, hoping that everyone will go to the theater to feel the impact of art and humanity brought by this film.
Chen Zhengdao.
Director Chen Zhengdao recommended the movie: "Blue, White and Red" trilogy
Screening Unit: Master Review - Krzystov Kieslowski
Director: Krzyshtov Kieslowski
Starring: Juliet Binoche
Blue poster.
At that time, the "Blue, White and Red" trilogy was a very rare film, first of all, it was taken from the three colors of the French flag, three different performances in the film, the three characters all encountered some changes, and they were not perfect people, but they all came out little by little. The three films are different in temperament, which is very interesting. When I was growing up, Krzystovsky Kieslowski was the hottest director at the time, and this work was also the knocking brick of French cinema in my heart, and his expressiveness and shooting style made a very deep impression on me. This is a masterpiece that is well worth seeing, both in terms of aesthetics and characters, as well as his self-expression as a director.
——Black and white classic——
Gong Hanlin.
Actor Gong Hanlin recommended the movie: "Shangganling" (4K)
Screening Unit: Special Exhibition: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China
Directors: Sha Meng, Lin Shan
Starring: Gao Baocheng, Liu Lei
Poster of "Shangganling".
The soldier who sacrificed himself to block the gun hole, the sacrificial water delivery team, the two apples that spread throughout the company but were reluctant to eat, the female hygienist's song "My Motherland" that sang the voice of the Chinese people's hearts, "A big river with wide waves, the wind blowing rice and flowers on both sides of the river"... To this day, the Battle of Shangganling is still a spiritual monument that stands in the hearts of hundreds of millions of people.
Li Shaohong.
Director Li Shaohong recommended the movie: "Flowers of the Motherland"
Screening Unit: China Story - Mirror Tour to Beijing
Director: Yan Gong
Starring: Zhao Weiqin, Li Xixiang
Poster of "Flowers of the Motherland".
When we talk about this film, we can't help but hum the interlude "Let's Swing the Oars", which has been sung to this day, "The sea reflects the beautiful white tower, surrounded by green trees and red walls." This is the first school-themed children's feature film in New China, and it is a perfect combination of realism and romanticism. Even if you revisit the film now, you will still be moved by the positive themes and beautiful and innocent pictures in the film. Looking at the sunny smiling faces of the children in the film is a kind of happiness for the audience of every age.
Chen Guohui.
Director Chen Guohui recommended the movie: "City Lights"
Screening Unit: Master Review - Charlie Chaplin
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin
City Lights poster.
Chaplin's classic, he adds reflection on the current society and analysis of love in this film, laughing with tears, the best comedy is always a tragedy. Light, sometimes not only with the eyes to see, it can be felt with the heart.
Travel.
Actor Zhou You recommended movies: "Gold Rush"
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Mark Swann
Gold Rush poster.
"Gold Rush" is a classic silent film, the masterpiece of Charlie Chaplin's "Tramp Series" comedy. Following this movie, people can laugh and tearfully feel the joys and sorrows of the little people on the road to chasing their dreams, and show the sadness of comedy from a deeper level.
——Global Vision——
Fu Da Long.
Actor Fu Dalong recommended movies: "Porco Rosso"
Screening Unit: Colorful Animation - Studio Ghibli Classic
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Poster of Porco Rosso.
It is this pig that sees through the world that impresses the audience with its superficial stubbornness and inner tenderness, and its act of always choosing to retreat a small step in the face of love has made many viewers see the shadow of their cowardice. The famous line in the film, "Pigs that can't fly, they're just pigs" are really much more advanced than the current sentence "Standing on the wind outlet, pigs can fly."
Li Ruotong.
Actor Li Ruotong recommended the movie: "Man Forty"
Director: Xu Anhua
Starring: Jacky Cheung, Mui Yanfang
Poster of "Forty Men".
The drama directed by Xu Anhua should be watched and felt slowly. She uses a certain lens that always touches you. The lines are delicate, and the director and screenwriter Kishinishi are quite good at grasping emotions. The male protagonist, Jacky Cheung, played out the tiredness, helplessness, ripples and depression in the face of temptation in the middle age of men.
Gong Beiyuan. Photography by Guo Yanbing of the Beijing News.
Actor Gong Beiyuan recommended movies: "The Sound of Metal"
Screening Unit: Global Vision
Director: Darryls Mader
Starring: Ritz Ahmed
Poster of The Sound of Metal.
Ritz Ahmed's performance gives a strong sense of substitution in every mood. In addition, the best thing about this movie is that the ending does not give a clear answer, more thinking is left to the audience, what kind of world do I want to choose? There is no explicit statement, but it has profound implications.
Li Chen.
Actor Li Chen recommended the movie: "Beijing Story"
Director: Wang Zhengfang
Poster of "Beijing Story".
"Beijing Story" is full of humor and lively vitality, and is a very unique one in the movies of the same period. Many details make up the most vivid Beijing: the courtyard, the tape recorder, the college entrance examination review class, the old-fashioned car, the uncle who carries the cage rack bird walking early, the Tiananmen square in the bicycle stream... These are probably the Beijing in my childhood memory, but also let the audience see the most real Beijing style in the movie, the passage of time washes away our memories, only the image can evoke this story about youth and about Beijing City.
——Genre masterpiece——
Li Yu. Photography by Zheng Xinqia of the Beijing News.
Director Li Yu recommended the movie: "Muhran Road"
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Haring
Poster of Mulholland Road.
I love innovative, wonderlike films, david Lynch' films that amplify your subconscious mind infinitely, but find it like a dream bubble, what you see and don't get, how fascinating! I remember my friends and I went specifically to Mulholland Drive in Hollywood, and at night, under the streetlights, it was there, like David Lynch's world, impermanent, boring, and fascinating.
Qin Hailu.
Actor Qin Hailu recommended the movie: "The Umbrella of Cherbourg"
Screening Unit: Master Review - Jacques Demi
Director: Jacques Demi
Starring: Catherine Deneuve
Poster of "The Umbrella of Cherbourg".
The pulsating notes are full of emotion, but the bright colors are full of sorrow. Jacques Demi uses the most beautiful coat to tell the beautiful but regrettable love, like a drizzle, seemingly traceless, but into the heart.
Zhang Xinyi.
Actor Zhang Xinyi recommended the movie: "Ruan Lingyu"
Director: Kwan Kam Peng
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Qin Han
Poster of "Ruan Lingyu".
This film is probably the best biopic about an artist in the history of Chinese cinema. It is also what fans call a "must see" movie. Moreover, "Ruan Lingyu" is not the kind of biopic that dullly tells the tragedy of life, but a super-agile art film, filmed in a semi-documentary way, nested in the play, and cross-representing Maggie Cheung's "Ruan Lingyu" with Ruan Lingyu's other films and Ruan Lingyu's personal life, which is really dreamlike. "Ruan Lingyu" is like this world, how beautiful it is, how desperate it is, how windy it is, how vast it is.
Yu Wenle.
Actor Yu Wenle recommended the movie: "Star Trek" trilogy
Screening Unit: Carnival - Series of Feasts
Directed by: J. J. Abrams, Lin Yibin
Star Trek poster.
The Star Trek trilogy, which was rebooted in 2009, brought the "old" IP, which had been popular for more than 40 years, back to life. The precision of the casting is poisonous, and the perfect application of new technologies makes everything look so wonderful. You'll find that Star Trek actually represents the original beautiful vision of mankind: a sea of stars, exploring the infinite unknown; courage and wisdom, overcoming many obstacles.
——Domestic film——
Lin Yongjian. Photography by Guo Yanbing of the Beijing News.
Actor Lin Yongjian recommended the movie: "The Founding Ceremony"
Screening Unit: Special Exhibition - Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China
Directors: Li Qiankuan, Xiao Guiyun
Starring: Gu Yue, Sun Feihu
Poster of the Founding Ceremony.
"The Founding Ceremony" is magnificent and has a vast field of vision, while recreating the great cause of creating a new China in a panoramic way, it also cleverly intersperses some details of life to show the personality of the characters, such as Chairman Mao in civilian clothes eating lamb steamed buns while listening to the chatter of ordinary people on the streets of Beiping. The film has both heavy ink and heavy colors, as well as fine paintings, which is worth enjoying repeatedly.
Yang Mi.
Actor Yang Mi recommended the movie: "Win the Championship"
Screening Unit: Special Exhibition - Retrospective exhibition of works by Gong Li, chairman of the jury of the "Temple of Heaven Award"
Director: Chen Kexin
"Win the Championship" poster.
A movie that makes people's blood boiling and excited, as if returning to the past with the movie picture, accompanying the women's volleyball team to experience a spanning 40 years, the "women's volleyball spirit" that never accepts defeat will also continue to affect us and inspire us to move forward!
Di Lieba.
Actor Di Li Reba recommended the movie: "Captain China"
Director: Liu Weiqiang
Poster of "Captain China".
Based on real events, "Captain China" is a masterpiece not to be missed, in the face of extreme danger, the heroic crew bravely and correctly handled, so that all the staff on board to turn the danger into a disaster. The captain's sentence at the end of the film, "Reverence for life, reverence for duties, reverence for regulations" is unforgettable, paying tribute to the heroes!
Yao Tingting.
Director Yao Tingting recommended the movie: "The Two of Us"
Director: Ma Liwen
Poster of The Two of Us.
This is a warm, healing film, the protagonists of the story live together, old and young, they go from hostility to mutual understanding, from their loneliness to each other's companionship. Spring, summer, autumn and winter are like shuttles, and two people from completely different worlds have slowly established deep feelings because they get along day and night.
Song Kunru.
Director Song Kunru recommended the movie: "Seongnam Old Things"
Director: Wu Yigong
Starring: Shen Jie, Zheng Zhenyao
Poster of "Seongnam Old Story".
For the imprint of the movie, just on the way out of school, I heard the whistle of pigeons in the sky of the alley, and hummed "Farewell". People to middle age, several times to look back, only to have an epiphany in the film of the director's artistic expression of simplicity, in the child's point of view, the sorrow of the times and the fate of the individual, moisturizing and silently composing a moving poem.
Zhou Huixiaowan, a senior reporter of the Beijing News
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