The earliest surviving Chinese fiction film Labourer’s Love On June 9, the International Archives Day, at the China Film Archive in Beijing, and on June 27 at the Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, Italy, the 4K restored version of Labourer's Love (also known as Romance of a Fruit Peddler or Romance of a Fruit Pedlar), a Chinese film produced a hundred years ago in 1922. It is the earliest surviving…
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The first generation of Nakamura Ganjiro’s footages were rediscovered The cultural and artistic significance of non-feature films can be seen in the case where the first generation of Nakamura Ganjiro's footages were rediscovered recently. Nakamura Ganjiro is a very important ‘Myoseki’ in the Japanese Kabuki world (that is, a stage name passed down from generation to generation for one’s performance style and specialised plays). The first generation of Ganjiro is…
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The latest restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives Produced by MoMA and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF), the latest restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives (1922) has screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato recently, after the premiere at San Francisco. Robert Byrne (SFSFF) and Dave Kehr (MoMA) attended the festival to talk about the case.The length of the film was at 14 reels for its New York…
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The first Korean feature-length animation film Hong Gil-dong The first Korean feature-length animation film Hong Gil-dong was restored in 4K! The film was directed by Shin Dong-heon, who adapted his younger brother’s famous comic series, Lucky Adventurer, Hong Gil-dong from 1965, and released it in Korea two years later.The lost original negative was made from military giant celluloid films. Korean Film Archive (KFA) collected a Japanese version of 16mm film from a…
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