For Immediate Release
HKIFF Cine Fan January/ February Programmes
Marlon Brando : The King of Acting, Mosfilm: Celebrating 90th Anniversary
and Jean Eustache – The Missing Link in the French New Wave and More!
20 November 2014 (Hong Kong) – The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (HKIFFS)’s
monthly programme, HKIFF Cine Fan January / February screenings will feature Marlon Brando: The
King of Acting , Mosfilm: Celebrating 90th Anniversary, Special Presentation: The Battle of Algiers.
“Top 20 Must-see” with Raging Bull and Apocalypse Now Redu”,and “Local Heroes” presenting My
Voice, My life directed by Ruby Yang. From Classics, Mosfilm to local indie documentary ,this Cine Fan
will give movie-goers the best movie choices in the new year.
Marlon Brando – The King of Acting
Born into a Midwestern middle-class family, his mother a frustrated actress, Marlon Brando mixed
theater and rebellion at an early age, capped by his expulsion from military school and his move to
New York City, where he was initiated into the Stanislavski system. This school forced actors to
explore their own lives to shape characters. Rocketing to Broadway stardom at 23 with A Streetcar
Named Desire (1947), he was lured to Hollywood for the film version and varied masterpieces –Viva
Zapata!, Julius Caesar, The Wild One and On the Waterfront – that made him both a respected actor
and a sex symbol and won his first Academy Award, for Best actor in On the Waterfront. In his later
career he gave a stunning incarnation as Vito Corleone in the blockbuster masterpiece The Godfather
and an aggressively different, disturbing role in Last Tango in Paris.
Cine Fan presents five films including A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, Guys and Dolls,
Burn! and Last Tango in Paris.
Mosfilm: Celebrating 90th Anniversary
Mosfilm, Russia’s largest and oldest film studio, celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. Mosfilm is
not only one of the world’s oldest-running film studios, but also a living testament to history. While
Mosfilm continued operations during WWII at its temporary facilities in Almaty, its creative output
was severely repressed during the postwar years. Five different style and theme films had been
chosen including Solaris, Dersu Uzala, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, Several Days of Oblomov’s
Life and White Tiger.
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Jean Eustache – The Missing Link in the French New Wave
Jean Eustache (1938-1941) provides one of the “missing links” of 20th century French cinema.
Eustache was born in a working class family in Pessac and raised in Narbonne, both of which marked
him as a self-taught product of provincial Southern France. His two key films, are also marked by
their differences: where The Mother and the Whore is modern, young, intense in its sexuality and
psychology, My Little Loves opens with lyrical color and nostalgic music that evoke an entirely
different universe, the lost youth that was itself utterly transformed by the political and social
changes underpinning 1968 unrest and the Nouvelle Vague. His career was cut short by paralysis
from an automobile accident in 1981, leading to his suicide shortly thereafter.
Special Presentation: Battle of Algiers (director: Gillo Pontecorvo)
A reconstructed history so powerful it scared the French, who delayed screenings for five years,
inspired revolutionaries worldwide and often comes to eclipse the actual histories it depicts. This
stunningly shot and orchestrated drama (music by Ennio Morricone) retells the events of the Algerian
War for Independence through composite characters of heartbreaking reality and unforgettable
visual and sonic tableaus. Not only the revolutionaries but even the colonizers and soldiers who
torture them are human, and the violence of both all the more painful for the beliefs that underpin
destruction.
The January / February programmes also present “Top 20 Must See” features Raging Bull and
Apocalypse Now Redux. “Local Heroes” is bringing Hong Kong audience the latest local indie
documentary My Voice, My Life directed by Ruby Yang, the Oscar-winner documentary filmmaker.
Don’t miss out !
The full programme can be viewed at www.cinefan.com.hk, while tickets can be booked online at
www.urbtix.hk or in-person at all URBTIX outlets from 14 October onwards.
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About HKIFF Cine Fan
Financially supported by the Hong Kong Film Development Fund and organised by the Hong Kong
International Film Festival Society (HKIFFS), the HKIFF Cine Fan Programme launched in April 2013
and based at the agnès b. CINEMA at the Hong Kong Arts Centre.
With the aim to enrich and deepen the experience of Hong Kong moviegoers, the monthly
programme features a variety of curated contemporary, retrospective and thematic showcases,
presenting national cinemas, tributes to masters, digitally restored classics, and genre films while
supporting Hong Kong films and film culture. Local and overseas filmmakers and critics are invited
regularly to attend meet-the-audience sessions, conduct seminars, and join panel discussions to
facilitate cultural exchange across borders.
In conjunction with the programme, the HKIFFS has introduced Cine Fan, a special privilege scheme
for cineastes to enjoy ticket discounts both for the programme, and also the annual Hong Kong
International Film Festival (HKIFF), the Summer International Film Festival (Summer IFF), and other
associated programmes.
HKIFF Cine Fan Programme is one of the events under the "Hong Kong: Our Home" Campaign.
About the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society Limited (HKIFFS)
Uniting the World through Film
The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (HKIFFS) is a charitable, non-profit and
non-governmental organisation dedicated to the discovery and promotion of creativity in the art and
culture of film.
Through its year-round programmes, the mission of the Society is to strengthen global appreciation
of Asian and Chinese film culture and to promote inspiring films from around the world, enriching
the cultural life of Hong Kong.
Committed to the development of a vibrant film culture in Hong Kong and Asia, the Society organises
two annual flagship events in March and April: the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) and
the Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF).
Passionately believing in the power of films to unite cultures and generations, the HKIFFS is devoted
to giving thousands of film lovers around the region direct access to the world’s most inspired films
all year round.
For media enquiries, please contact:
The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society
Miss Christy Mo (Mo)
Phone +852 2102 7338 / 9315 0111
Email christy_mo@hkiff.org.hk
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