Ho Fan the Filmmaker, and Eroticism in Hong Kong (Cinema) Written by Lau Yam, translated by Erica Leung Released in 1972, Ho Fan’s mainstream directorial debut Love and Blood marked the start of his intricate cinematic quest. While the plot of this contemporary Mandarin-speaking filmcentres on a twisted romance, the film is more than that – there are the familiar tales of runaway teens duped by delinquents, scenes of sex…

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Ho Fan and Hong Kong Experimental Cinema in the 1960s Written by Timmy Chen, translated by Francisco Lo For Hong Kong cinema, entertainment always comes first. The business-oriented approach often leads experimental, avant-garde, alternative, and independent artistic expressions to be absorbed by the mainstream film industry. The late 1970s and early 1980s Hong Kong New Wave’s Patrick Tam, Allen Fong, and Alex Cheung once shot experimental films in the 1960s…

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Il Cinema Ritrovato 2021 Here comes another edition of the Il Cinema Ritrovato! The festival opening will be held next Tuesday but there will be some screenings at the Cinema Lumière and Piazza Maggiore starting from this week. Apart from the regular programmes, the Cineteca di Bologna is co-organising a thematic programme of Tomijiro Komiya collection with the National Film Archive of Japan. Tomijiro Komiya collected mainly European films, included…

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71st Berlinale Retrospective The 71st Berlinale will be launched today with an Industry Event while majority of the 2021 selected films can only be seen by the public in summer. For this year’s Retrospective, a programme featuring three different American actresses namely ‘No Angels – Mae West, Rosalind Russell & Carole Lombard’, includes 27 productions made between 1932 and 1943, the heyday of the screwball comedy. The films were chosen…

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