Thu 11 Feb 1 8:20 NFT2 China 1984 Dir Chen Kaige 陈凯歌 89 mins. A groundbreaking work from one of the new wave of filmmakers emerging after the Cultural Revolution. With stunning cinematography from Zhang Yimou (later an award-winning director).It is set in 1939 and follows a young soldiers arrival in a backward peasant community. […]
Thu 4 Feb 14:00 NFT2 China 1999 Dir Zhang Yimou 張藝謀 89 mins This outstandingly beautiful work is a story within a story. A businessman goes to the country to assist his elderly mother with his father’s burial, and learns of his parents experience as young lovers in the face of unfeeling authority. It stars […]
Sun14 Feb, 2 -3.30pm Venue : Museum of London Docklands Dir Arthur Dong 曾奕田 USA 2007, 90 min. Cast: Ang Lee, Wayne Wang, Tsai Chin, Nancy Kwan, Amy Tan. A captivating revelation on little-known chapter of cinema: the Chinese in American feature films. From the first Chinese American film produced in 1916, to Ang Lee’s triumphant […]
Sat 6 Feb 2, - 3.30pm Venue : Museum of London Docklands Dir Xu Jingle 徐靜蕾 Cast: Jiang Wen, Xu Jinglei 2004 90 mins. A lyrical meditation on memory love and loss, against the epic backdrop China’s revolution, the film chronicles the life of a woman whose love for a man ultimately consumes her. (Winner of the […]
Sun 14 Feb, 4-4.30pm Venue : Museum of London Docklands Enjoy this documentary about China’s great navigator, Zheng He’s maritime expeditions in the Ming Dynasty to establish new trade routes in 1403 & 1433 Venue : Museum of London Docklands 1 Warehouse, West India Quay, London E14 4AL Details: 0870 444 3855 / 3850 (reservations) Films suitable for all ages […]
Tue 16 Feb 18:0 NFT2 Sun 21 Feb 15.50 NFT2 Dir Xie Jin 謝晉 with Xie Fang, Cao Yindi 1965, 112 mins The world of the Shaoxing opera is the setting for an intimate story of two actresses in an all-female company, whose lives in the turbulent years of 1930 to 1950 are seen as […]