April 10, 2012

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  Film de fête

   

  3/24

  （姚姐）

  Side By Side 

  Director:

  Chris Kenneally

  Country:

  USA

  Year:

  2012

  Colour:

  Colour

  Duration:

  99 mins

  Official webstite:

  http://sidebysidethemovie.com

   

   

   

  3/25

  （春嬌與志明）

  Le Havre

  Director:

  Aki Kaurismäki

  Cast:

  André Wilms, Blondin Miguel, Kati Qutinen

  Country:

  Finland/France

  Year:

  2011

  Colour:

  Colour

  Duration:

  93 mins

  3／27

  Outside Satan 

  Director:

  Bruno Dumont

  Cast:

  David Dewaele, Alexandra Lematre

  Country:

  France

  Year:

  2011

  Colour:

  Colour

  Duration:

  109 mins

  3／31

  People Mountain People Sea

  Director:

  Cai Shangjun

  Cast:

  Chen Jianbin, Tao Hong, Wu Xiubo

  Year:

  2011

  Colour:

  Colour

  Language:

  Guizhou Dialect/Putonghua

  Duration:

  91 mins

  A Dangerous Method 

  Director:

  David Cronenberg

  Cast:

  Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen

  Country:

  UK/Germany/Canada

  Year:

  2011

  Colour:

  Colour

  Duration:

  99 mins

  4／1

  Small Change (Tributes)

  Director:

  Francois Truffaut

  Cast:

  Georges Desmouceaux, Philippe Goldmann, Nicole Félix

  Country:

  France

  Year:

  1976

  Colour:

  Colour

  Duration:

  104 mins

  Ito Takashi Programme I – The 80s / II – The 90s 

  Director:

  Ito Takashi

  Duration:

  117 mins

  Ito Takashi, with a very conscious intervention that shows the audience hows the mortal and immortality of images are made and mastered by a visible hand, as a experimental director, he is patient to do every editing and stop motion frame by frame, years after years. His early films are way inspirting and I thank him for the “Spacy“ , of which demonstrating how a space extends indefinitely in terms of cinematic time and real time.

  I love the very mature work “Thunder“ (1982) as well. Avant garde means, he is ahead of the mass public at least 20 years, most likely up to a half century.
  

  Ito Takashi Programme III – The 21st Century

  Director:

  Ito Takashi

  Duration:

  63 mins

  2／4

  Avant-Garde Programme I

  Death drive of ken jacobs

  Hungary 2011 

  Director:

  Bela Tarr, Miklós Jancso, Gyorgi Palfi, Bence Fliegauf, Agnes Kocsis, András Jeles, Ferenc Török,Simon Szabó, Márta Mészáros, Péter Forgács, László Siroki, András Salamon

  Country:

  Hungary

  Year:

  2012

  Colour:

  Colour

  Duration:

  75 mins

   

  The Mill & the Cross

  Director:

  Lech Majewski

  Cast:

  Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling, Michael York

  Country:

  Poland/Sweden

  Year:

  2011

  Colour:

  Colour

  Duration:

  95 mins

  3／4

  i m not sure whether the colors really matter in this film (actually i m sure it does), but personally i think the content is quite explicit and the visual effect overwhelms the mise-en-scene. and charlotte rampling, why she is here as mary...but speaking in english?? sorry about the (digital) projector in the HK theatre, they suck, the theatre got heavy vibration for the sound effect (which in unnecessary), however not even the correct color tone for the film. the colors are washed out, made it looks like a low-budgeted tv series drama. well, but the director lech majewski, he is nice and witty. a good one for any interview, you can just ask him one question, as simply as, "what is your inspiration of this film?" Then he will automatically give you a thousand word article, which is full of religious and artistic paroles.

  The First Man 

  Director:

  Gianni Amelio

  Cast:

  Jacques Gamblin, Catherine Sola, Denis Podalydes

  Country:

  France/Algeria

  Year:

  2011

  Colour:

  Colour

  Duration:

  100 mins

  I like this subtle adaptation of camus's unfinished novel, The First Man. The film reminds me the words of camus, his solitude and his faith to be as a algerian and a writer. Great literature is, the substance of it accumulates, the words of it sparks, however long lasts for century. Smooth and minimal plot, carefully panned cameras and editing. Handsome little camus (as his fictional alter ego, Jacques Cormery) and the less handsome older camus, and also others actors are very sophisticatedly being portrayed in the film. Not any experimental or aesthetic elements , but it's very decent and serene per se. 

  *** *** ***

  Le premier homme
  (France-Algeria-Italy)

  Gianni Amelio uses such an excessively subdued approach in his filmization of Albert Camus' final, unfinished novel, "The First Man," that the whole is less than the sum of its select, often beautiful passages. Though Camus' fictionalized self-portrait is largely set in the 1920s Algiers of his childhood, Amelio wisely chooses to balance this era with 1957 Algeria, when the author returns to a country verging on revolution. As always, the director's work is consummately controlled, but here much humbler than his best films, like "L'America," and destined for only marginal returns in Euro markets.(By ROBERT KOEHLER)

  
  

  6／4

  （戀之罪）

  7／4

  Georges Franju Shorts Programme

  Director:

  Georges Franju

  Country:

  France

  Year:

  1949-1958

  Colour:

  B&W

  Duration:

  99 mins

  OK, i fed up by Georges Franju's first short film "Le Sang Des Bêtes", and i feel sick about people enjoying watching the extremely violent killing of the "beasts" in such a bloody way, unless he or she really find the context why Franju was making this extremely brutal film. It seems that, Franju himself doesnt eat meat, viz. a vegetarian... 

  Blood of the Beasts was made as a black and white film as an aesthetic. Franju states "If it were in colour, it'd be repulsive... the sensation people get would be physical one."

  Head Against the Wall

  Director:

  Georges Franju

  Cast:

  Jean-Pierre Mocky, Pierre Brasseur, Anouk Aimée

  Country:

  France

  Year:

  1959

  Colour:

  B&W

  Duration:

  95 mins

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