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The fan festival is here again! At 12:00 noon on September 14 (Tuesday), the 2021 Beijing International Film Festival "Beijing Screening" was officially opened, and nearly 300 films were available for the audience to choose from.
Before the ticketing, personal film selection and scheduling work is indispensable, first of all, according to the movies you want to watch, disposable time and convenient commuting theaters, with the selection of suitable movie viewing venues. Remember not to have a time conflict between sessions or situations where you can't move to the next theater in time.
After listing your own schedule on the ticket purchase platform, it is recommended to list a list of films arranged in an orderly manner according to the degree of desire to see or the degree of difficulty to grab, so that there is a sequence when grabbing tickets.
The key to ticket snatching lies in both hand speed and method, such as you can occupy the seat in the non-prime area first, avoid the middle position, and avoid the problem of grabbing seats; arrange more people to grab tickets together before ticketing, but it should be noted that each order in a single session can only buy up to 4 movie tickets.
Nearly 300 movies, which one to choose is a difficult question for everyone to choose. The classic 4K restoration of film history, new films shortlisted for major international film festivals, first screening in Chinese mainland, post-screening exchange activities, IMAX, Dolby Cinema exclusive supply, etc. can all be reference coordinates.
The following is the 1905 movie network according to the unit classification and screening settings on the ticketing platform Maoyan, for everyone to sort out the content points and recommended key works, let's take a look!
Officially recommended
This year, 15 films were shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Temple of Heaven Award, including three Chinese films.
"Everything About My Mother" starring Xu Fan and Zhang Jingyi is a typical mother-daughter family "crying film", which landed in theaters synchronously in the Mid-Autumn Festival. "Above the Clouds" is a poetic film-style war film that excavates a period of red army history in the mountains of Zhejiang Province with black and white images. "If One Day I Will Leave You" is the first directorial masterpiece by Li Xuejian's son Li Gang, focusing on the Japanese Chinese community.
Films from abroad are also Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the biopic "Oath" directed by Billy August, a member of the "Palme d'Or", is threatening, opening the world premiere at the North Film Festival, and the director will communicate online after the screening.
You can also pay attention to "The School of the Hills of Vessel Hill", which won the Special Jury Prize in the "New Generation of Children" section of the Berlin International Film Festival; "Until We Die or Be Free"; "Night of the Kings", which won the Best Actress at the Tallinn Night Film Festival; and "Night of the Kings", which was a cameo by Denis Lavan.
The "Focus on the Future" section is the first or second feature film by directors from all over the world, with a variety of genres and rich perspectives, with a total of 14 finalists, including two Chinese films: the absurd suspense comedy "Uninvited Guest" and the Tibetan film "Lost", the former starring Fan Wei, Dou Xiao and Zhang Songwen, and the performance is eye-catching.
"Uninvited Guest"
"Whaling Boy" previously won two honors at the Venice International Film Festival Venice Day Best Film and the Pingyao International Film Exhibition Roberto Rossellini, and is currently Douban 7.2, which is well evaluated. The satirical comedy "Friends and Strangers" was nominated for the Tiger Award at the 50th Rotterdam International Film Festival and can be followed.
Whaling Boy
The Iranian film "The Outsider" is the directorial debut of "Three Faces" producer and screenwriter Nadir Saywal, and the director of "Three Faces" Jafa Panahi is also the screenwriter of "The Outsider", with the blessing of the master director who won the Golden Lion Award and the Golden Bear Award, which should not be underestimated.
Surprise premiere
This year, there are a number of new films shortlisted for the Cannes International Film Festival, and they have reached the domestic big screen more than two months after their premiere in Cannes, which is a rare opportunity.
You can focus on "Three Floors" from the main competition unit, which is an Italian-style family melodrama directed by Palme d'Or winner Nanni Molletti. Shortlisted for the Director's Biweekly Unit, "Employees and Employers" has the latest performance by Naville, the actor of "Persian Lessons".
"On Three Floors"
And the just-concluded Venice International Film won the Jury Special Award "Hole", also landed at the North Film Festival at the first time, director Michelangelo Flamatinino's previous work "Four Times" came to the fore in the international film world, "The Hole" continued his dialogueless video narrative style, portraying the deep beauty of nature and life, highly experimental.
"The Hole" runs from Venice to the North Film Festival
Fans of Yoji Yamada should not miss his latest masterpiece, God of Cinema, which was created by an all-star cast to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Shochiku Pictures, paying homage to the golden age of cinema.
Blessed are the fans of Imatoshi Animation, and the documentary "Imatoshi: Dream Machine" comprehensively reviews the artistic career of this animation master, and Hosoda Mori and Oshii Mori appear in the interview to recall. Although the documentary itself was not well received after its premiere in Cannes, it is now the best screen memory ten years after Imatoshi's death.
The domestic family animation film "Toward the Bright Side" has a special production model, jointly completed by seven independent animation directors, and is the first original picture book film in China, where parents and audiences can feel the love and emotion in the story with their children in the theater.
Classic presentation
The North Film Festival specially planned a retrospective exhibition of works for Gong Li, chairman of the temple of heaven award. Gong Li is the only actress in the world to star in a film that has won the highest award at the three major international film festivals, and has highlighted the 4K restoration version of "Red Sorghum" and "Qiu Ju Fights the Lawsuit" in ten screening works, the former won the Berlin Golden Bear Award, the latter won the Venice Golden Lion Award, and at the same time won her the Best Actress Award, both of which are timeless classics.
"Qiu Ju Fights a Lawsuit"
There are many blockbuster films in the two units of "Repair Classic" and "Tribute to Filmmakers", all of which are fine products, will not step on the thunder, and can be considered and specifically selected according to personal tastes and preferences for movies.
The 4K restored versions of the four classic Hong Kong films such as "Autumn Fairy Tale", "Rouge Buckle", "Ruan Lingyu" and "Man Forty", as well as Hollywood hits such as "Godfather 3", "Barton Fink" and "Social Network", are definitely ticket-grabbing hits.
"Ruan Lingyu"
Masahiro Shinoda's fantasy blockbuster "Night Fork Pool", the Cannes Jury Prize "Diary left for daughters", And David Lynch's classic brain-burning work "Mulholland Road", the latest 4K restoration of these three old films are all classic units from this year's Cannes, and they are also directly connected to the North Film Festival for the first time.
The special film "Iria of Murom" that inspired Godzilla, the Oscar best supporting actress Yin Ruzhen and director Kim Qiyong's first collaboration of "Fire Girl", and Spike Lee's famous work "Do What You Should" are relatively unfamiliar to the public, but they can all bring surprises.
"Do What You Should"
The key works of mikros Yang Suo, the grandmaster of the long-lens generation, have just been screened intensively at this year's Shanghai Film Festival, but this time the North Film Festival exhibited a 4K version of "Red Hymn" that was not screened at the Shanghai Film Festival, further completing the screen review of Yang Suo, which won the Best Director Award at Cannes.
In the "Tribute to the Filmmaker" unit, "Forty-first" and "Soldier's Song" from the former Soviet Union are war love epics with the same name as "Yan Nanfei", and the "Soldier's Song" Douban score is as high as 9.1, which is very watchable. "Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears" is the screen memory of a generation of Chinese people, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Soldier's Song
The most valuable thing is that the 1933 "Struggle" will be screened for the first time in Beijing, which is one of the earliest sound films on the film in China, and it is also the only surviving work of Tianyi Company, filling the research gap in the history of Chinese cinema in the 1930s, a veritable national treasure-
Blockbuster Filmmaker
The works of 10 "Focus Filmmakers" will meet the audience at the Beijing Film Festival, including: Serene Sienma, Ryusuke Hamakchi, Chen Cuimei, Miao Yue, Chen Musheng, Charlie Chaplin, Nicholas Ray, Masahira Imabari, Kieslowski and Jacques Demi.
This is a precious opportunity to systematically revisit the director's masterpieces on the big screen, understand their authorship and personal style changes, choose a few favorite directors, pull all their exhibition works, or focus on one or two masterpieces to enjoy.
For the director of "Portrait of a Burning Woman", Selyn Sienma, you can watch her latest film "Little Mother", which was shortlisted for the main competition unit of this year's Berlin International Film Festival, and the mother-daughter story in the film was called the children's perspective version of "Hello, Li Huanying" by some audiences.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi has risen rapidly in the international film industry in recent years and is highly regarded by fans, and his new film "Chance and Imagination", which consists of three story chapters and exquisite plays, won the grand jury prize of this year's Berlin Silver Bear Awards, which should not be missed.
Malaysian director Chen Cuimei's "Barbarian Invasion" is a word-of-mouth hit at this year's Shanghai International Film Festival, and finally won the Grand Jury Prize in the main competition unit, which is a feminist action film with a special perspective, blending the structure of the play within a play and a meta-film.
The famous domestic female director Miao Yue's "Summer Without Cicadas" is worthy of attention, the film has won the best TV film at the Beijing University Student Film Festival, and is a warm and subtle masterpiece that pays attention to ordinary little people.
Director Chen Musheng's posthumous work "Fury Serious Case" has risen at the box office in the theater market, and this review is not as good as starting from his first film "Heavenly Love", and entering his chic romantic feelings in the motorcycle galloping of Andy Lau and Wu Qianlian.
Charlie Chaplin's works presumably do not need to be specially introduced, and if you can't see them, it is recommended to choose the two 4K versions of the film: "Finding the Fairy" and "The Circus", through more detailed picture images, taste more classic details in silent films.
"The Quest for the Immortals"
Director Nicolas Ray's influence on film history is very important, he is Godard, Truffaut and other French film New Wave directors idol, is the source of rebellion of "New Hollywood". Rebel Without a Cause is his most famous work, and Lonely Suspect is the pinnacle of his film noir, both of which are 4K versions.
Rebel Without a Cause
"Double Palme d'Or" director Masahira Imamura is an ethnic and social observer in the film, a leading figure in Japanese New Wave cinema, and many of the nine works in the exhibition are film versions, of which "Kaiyama Festival" is his masterpiece, and "Insects of Japan" and "Eel" are the landmark works of his "animal metaphor method".
《楢山節考》
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of French song and dance film director Jacques Demi, and the 10 screenings include his first feature film "Lola" and the last live-action song and dance film "3 26-day tickets".
There are both masterpieces "The Umbrella of Cherbourg", as well as the less popular "Fairy Flute Prodigy" and "Rock of Orpheus", both of which, together with "3 Tickets for 26 Days", are domestic premieres at the North Film Festival.
"3 Tickets for 26 Days"
Kieslowski is a director who is very familiar to domestic audiences, and this retrospective exhibition may wish to revisit his classic series "Red, White and Blue Trilogy" and "Ten Commandments", and the screening field of "Two Flowers" will be accompanied by lectures by well-known scholar Dai Jinhua.
Diverse exploration
This year's three major European international film festivals best films are all women's stories, Cannes and Venice best film directors are also female directors, the power of women's films can not be ignored, this year's North Film Festival also launched a "women's voice" feature that includes 7 films.
The documentary "Refining" Love truly records five single women living in the city, who have different life experiences, but face common emotional propositions, which were previously premiered at the Shanghai Film Festival and were highly evaluated by the audience.
"Ninja Baby" is known as the Norwegian version of "Juno", focusing on women's reproductive freedom in the form of comic book images and light comedy, cute characters, and relaxed perception, which is an unpopular treasure in this premiere of the new film.
The "Realm" section focuses on Andrea Arnold's documentary Cow by Fish Tank director Andrea Arnold, which, like Gunda, takes an animal perspective and documents the daily life of a cow and a cow girl in a cow factory from birth to death.
In addition, "Fragments of a Woman" director Mudluzzo's new work "Evolution" shoots three stories in three long shots, full of form and gimmicks, and was shortlisted for this year's Cannes premiere. "Reflexive Path", which won the Best Director Award at the Shanghai Film Festival, will also continue to appear on the big screen at the North Film Festival.
"Evolution" was screened at the North Film Festival in 4K
The "Truth First" section debuted "Mr. Bachmann and His Students", an annual documentary masterpiece that won the Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival's Silver Bear Award at the beginning of the year, focusing on the classroom life of a teacher and a whole class of students, immersing themselves in the ideal mode of education.
The "Colorful Animation" unit can be seen in "Delusional Agent", which is the first screening of the full version of the film in China, and it is estimated that it is not easy for this film to grab tickets in the past animation in the domestic film festival.
However, it should be noted that "Mr. Bachmann and His Students" is 217 minutes long, "Delusional Agent" has 13 episodes, and the big screen is played for 318 minutes.
Global perspective
"Ukrainian Poetry Film" and "Ealing Comedy Classic" are relatively unpopular to many audiences, but they are the unique highlights of this year's North Film Festival curation, through centralized screening, so that more people can understand these two genres in the history of world cinema.
To understand Ukrainian poetry films, we can start with "The Shadow of forgotten Ancestors", which shows the thick national history and legends with gorgeous and dreamy visual effects and mysterious dreams, which is the typical style of Ukrainian poetry films.
After World War II, the British Yilin Film Studio emerged a number of outstanding black comedies, "Benevolence and Crown" and "Dr. Thief" are the representative works of "Ealing Comedy", which was selected as the BFI's Top 100 Best Works in the Past Century.
Both works are starring Alec Guinness, known as the "Thousand Faces of the Film Industry", who won the Oscar for Best Actor for "The Bridge on the River Kwai". Guinness played the octagon in "Kindness and the Crown", and the Coen brothers' "Old Woman Killer" is also a remake of his "Doctor Thief", both of which are screened in 4K.
"Kindness and the Crown"
In the "China Story" unit, you can choose "Mustang Mane", which has been selected for the official film list of Cannes 2020, and "Wuhai" starring Huang Xuan, both of which have plans to land in domestic theaters, which can be seen in advance at the North Film Festival, of which the director of "Wuhai" will do exchange activities after the screening.
In the "Global Vision" section, you can choose Hong Changxiu's "Introduction" to win the best screenplay at the Berlin International Film Festival; "The Chronicles of the Boat" director Yuya Ishii's new work "Akane Ru burn", the French satirical comedy "Two Alfred" and the 4K version of the classic old film "The Youth of Tokiwaso", which focuses on the group of cartoonists, all three of which were screened for the first time in Chinese mainland.
Fans revel in
The "midnight field" that opened in the evening ushered in the Malaysian thriller "Southern Witch", which was recently on the hot search, which was previously leaked by pirated resources, and the director publicly published an angry article, triggering discussion, this time it can support the genuine version on the big screen.
The new films "Jemile Show" and "Impulse on the Tip of the Tongue" constitute a unique midnight bizarre image, "Blood Detective" and "World's End" will also be screened together, and fans of the "Blood and Ice Cream" trilogy can revisit the classics.
The 4K version of "Hot Blood Detective" debuted at the North Film Festival
After watching the highlights and recommended films in the above units, have you decided what movies you want to watch?
Grasp the selection of films, schedule films, remember to set the alarm clock in advance, on September 14 at 12 noon on time to start the robbery, I wish everyone a smooth ticket grab, happy movie watching!
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