Under the guidance of the Shanghai Film Bureau and sponsored by the Shanghai Art Film Alliance, an organization under the Shanghai Film Distribution and Projection Industry Association, the "British Film Masters Exhibition" will open in Shanghai on March 6.
Since its screening in September 2016, the British Film Masters Exhibition has been held three times, in September 2016, December 2017 and January 2019. This "British Film Masters Exhibition" not only echoes the directors or works screened in the previous three seasons, re-introduces the classic masterpieces of Michael Powell, James Evely, Ken Lodge and many other film masters who have been well known to Shanghai audiences, but also brings for the first time the latest digital restoration copies of the earliest extant moving images in Europe, tracing the origin of the film and paying high tribute to the world film pioneers and unnamed cinematographers.
This "British Film Masters Exhibition" will bring nine classic works directed by eight film masters, presenting the different styles of many film masters who have led the new style of film in different eras in the form of colorful films, and presenting the audience with timeless and excellent works.
Films screened at the British Film Masters Exhibition include:
The Dutch Eye Film Museum and the British Film Institute selected 50 of Europe's earliest moving video short films produced by Bivograf Films, and "The Wonderful Bivograf Film Company" was completed by 8K digital scanning and 4K restoration;
Co-directed by Michael Powell and Emerick Presberg, adapted from the magical classic opera by composer Offenbach, the Special Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, the Special Color Classic Song and Dance Film "The End of the Dream";
"The Voyeur," one of the best psychological thrillers in film history directed by Michael Powell;
The classic psychological thriller "The Servant", directed by Joseph Rossi, written by Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter and one of the inspirations for Bong Joon-ho's "Parasite";
Directed by Joseph Rossi and written by Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter, the classicist romance film "The Secret Messenger", which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival;
The third man, a classic film noir directed by Carol Reid and starring Orson Wells and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival;
Dr. Thief, an Ilyn comedy classic directed by Alexander McKendrick, starring Star Wars Obi-Wan actor Alec Guinness and comedy guru Peter Cyrus, and one of the most important film restorations of 2020;
James Ivory is adapted from E.M Foster's novel of the same name, which won three Academy Awards and the Cannes Film Festival's 45th Anniversary Grand Prix for "Hacienda Howard";
Ken Lodge directed the classic "Wind Blowing Wheat Waves" and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
It is worth mentioning that the films screened in this film festival are all new digital restoration versions, three of the five 4K digital restoration copies are Asian premieres, of which "The Wonderful Bivograf Film Company" will be specially screened in the IMAX screening hall to achieve the screening of Shanghai's top film projection equipment, matching the top film restoration project, which is not only the first time that the 4K digital restoration copy of this film will be screened in the IMAX hall in Asia (non-IMAX copy screening), It is also the first time that China's IMAX hall has screened silent films, reflecting that the daily screening of Shanghai films has reached the international first-class level in hardware and software, which is enough to meet the high-standard needs of movie fans for big screen viewing.
In 2021, the Shanghai Art Film Alliance will continue to launch high-quality film activities to create a high-quality environment for Shanghai film screenings and serve domestic films and Shanghai audiences.
Shanghai Art Film Alliance is guided by the Shanghai Film Bureau and operated by the Shanghai Film Distribution and Screening Industry Association, aiming to promote and popularize art films, and is committed to building an exhibition platform for excellent Chinese and foreign art films, making art film screenings routine, becoming part of the daily viewing of Shanghai film fans, and promoting excellent domestic art films to go abroad.
The British Film Masters Exhibition has been ticketed, and interested audiences can go to platforms such as Maoyan to see if there are any remaining tickets.
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Source: Thoughtful