Mancunians are currently getting the chance to enjoy some recent gems from HK at the Cornerhouse cinema in a season running until Monday 30 July. Entitled Made in Hong Kong: A Decade of New Cinema, and marking ten years since the handover, the season is led by Johnnie To's Exiled (pictured, reviewed by Firecracker here, and which a pedant might point out is actually shot largely in Macau rather than Hong Kong) and features such favourites as Shaolin Soccer, Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together and In the Mood For Love, To's Election 2, Infernal Affairs and Fruit Chan's Dumplings. While none of the titles screenings are exactly new, it's always nice to get the option of watching them on the big screen.
More interestingly perhaps, the event will feature a programme of HK animation, a symposium on HK movies, and a one hour intro into the films of Johnnie To.
Cornerhouse website
No comments:
Post a Comment