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The 17th Shanghai International Film Festival held a kick-off meeting on May 30 during which 35 selected star-level cinemas were approved to screen films during the Film Panorama. Tickets will be on sale once the film schedule is decided in early June.
The 2014 赌博app will be held from June 14 to 22 and will start selling tickets to the public in the weekend before the opening ceremony. The Film Panorama is Asia’s biggest and most varied film festival program, with hundreds of excellent movies from different countries and region being screened. This year\'s audiences will enjoy the most high quality and varied movie schedule since the first 赌博app held in 1993.
Apart from the two competition sessions, the Gold Goblet Award and Asian New Talent Award, there will be many others. They include the Opening and Closing Film, 赌博app Highlights, Tribute to Masters, Focus China, Reproduced Classics, Multiple Perspectives, Touch 3D, IMAX Vision, Global Village, MIDA Docu, Films for Children, Outdoor Films, and Short Films Exhibition. The hundreds of excellent movies to be screened from China and abroad will offer a global film feast.
Cinema fans will find it easier to see films this year as the 35 cinemas designated as “赌博app Selected\' for screening festival programs are up in number from last year\'s 26. Their 40 screens will show nearly 900 movies; the cinemas are scattered throughout Shanghai\'s downtown area.
Gewara has been adopted as the interactive ticket service platform and Zhuoshang Cinema Hotline and Tianxia Tickets are the festival\'s chosen ticket service websites. Audiences can buy tickets from any of the cinemas through these websites or through 赌博app\'s APP. Apart from a few films, most being shown will have a discount admission price of 40-60 RMB.
Tribute to Masters
This year\'s Berlin Film Festival, awarded the Alfred Bauer Prize to French avant-garde film director Alain Resnais’ film The Life of Riley; Resnais died not long after at the age of 91. In tribute to his artistic output, 赌博app will screen his masterpieces, including The Life of Riley, Last Year at Marienbad, Hiroshima Mon Amour, and My American Uncle.
Also in 2014, Wu Tianming, a famous director and former head of the Xi\'an Film Studio, died from myocardial infarction. As a leading light of prominent Fifth Generation directors, including Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, Wu provided them much support.
In further tribute in honor of Wu Tianming, the festival has specially planned the screening program "Wu Tianming and China’s Fifth Generation Directors." As well as Wu Tianming’s masterpieces Song of the Phoenix, River Without Buoys, Life, and Old Well, Chen Kaige’s King of the Children, Zhang Yimou\'s Red Sorghum, Tian Zhuangzhuang\'s Horse Thief, Huang Jianxin\'s The Black Cannon Incident, He Ping\'s Swordsman in Double Flag Town, and Zhou Xiaowen\'s The Price of Frenzy will also be screened.
In another program, “Films of Roberto Rossellini” will highlight the pioneering films of Italian neo-realism, including Rome, Open City, Volcano Edge of Love, Love, and Italian Journey. “Films of Marlon Brando” will show four masterpieces: The Godfather, On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Apocalypse Now. There will also be a retrospective highlighting Ingrid Bergman\'s peerless elegance.
With Jiang Wen’s new film Gone With The Bullets to have its premiere during the Lunar New Year, 赌博app will present a retrospective of his early works: Sunny Day, The Sun Also Rises, and Let the Bullets Fly. Jiang Wen will attend the opening ceremony of the festival on June 14.
4K Restored Classics
Despite many vintage films not being well-preserved enough to reach today\'s technical screening standards, the 4K restoration technology is enabling a better viewing experience. 赌博app is introducing a new section this year in the Film Panorama program for 4K restored movies.
The program will feature films including Taxi Driver, The Godfather Part II, Philadelphia, Tess of the D\'Urbervilles, Les Misérables (1935), The Children of Heaven, Purple Noon, La Reine Margot, The Lady from Shanghai and The Age of Innocence.
The festival has been motivated to include the films following the successful screening last year of 4K restored movies, including Lawrence of Arabia.
赌博app Highlights
The movies in this section are judged to be fine products due to their content, style and themes and have been either highly recommended by the Organizing Committee or are global premieres. The section includes a large number of significant and wonderful movies. Among them, Sacro GRA won the Golden Lion Award in the 70th Venice Film Festival, the first time in its history that the festival\'s top prize was awarded to a documentary. Jury President Bernardo Bertolucci explained that the film was “fresh” enough and that the "disappearing" documentary should be encouraged. Also included in this section is Blue Jasmine, directed by Woody Allen and starring Cate Blanchett, who swept almost all the “Best Actress” awards at international film festivals from late last year to early this year.
Global Village
This section will again highlight international films, including excellent movies from UK, US, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan, Thailand, etc. It will present audiences with the newest, best and most representative films from these countries. It will also include a series of gala opening ceremonies and meet-and-greet events attended by producers and VIP guests.
The European movies to be presented this year are of fine quality. Among them, The Epic of Everest is a documentary about George Mallory and Sandy Irvine\'s 1924 expedition to Mount Everest and comes from the British Film Institute archive. It is very valuable as it preserves many precious photos and videos. Zulu was the closing film at Cannes Film Festival last year, the latest product of famous French director Jérôme Salle; it features the stand-out performance of the “elf” Orlando Bloom. The Italian film L’Intrepito was awarded “Best Actor” prize at the 70th Venice Film Festival. The German film Die Schwarzen Brüder was produced by Xavier Koller who is a winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and who has been a 赌博app Golden Goblet Award judge.
Many films will be presented in “Japanese Film Week”. They include Like Father, Like Son, a 2013 Cannes Jury Prize Winner directed by Hirokazu Koreeda and starring Masaharu Fukuyama, and The Kiyosu Conference, a 2013 Japanese period comedy directed by Kōki Mitani and which is sure to be a quick sell-out. More popular Japanese films and dramas including A Tale of Samurai Cooking - A True Love Story, and Black Butler and others will draw the crowds.
The Thai films will also be eye-catching. The horror film Last Summer, starring Kao Jirayu Laongmanee, tells a poignant but horrible love story. Its major producer will attend 赌博app and interact with film fans. Other Thai horror films will also be shown, including Pee Mak, Hashima Project and The Second Sight 3D.
Focus China
The Focus China section will present the best and latest Chinese films to showcase the industry\'s continuing development. It consists of three sections: the Media Award, New Chinese Films and Most-focused Chinese Films, highlighting product richness and diversity. Films to be presented include Forever Young, the story of a rock band by Lu Gengxu, Meet You in My Best Time, a story about the post-1980s generation and the romance Time-travel Love.
Touch 3D
Touch 3D is a very popular section, presenting colorful films in various genres. It offers a brand new visual experience benefiting from the rapid advances in film technology and reflects the latest dynamics of 3D techniques. It will present 3X3D, a film directed by, Jean-Luc Godard. Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pêra, as well as Walking with Dinosaurs, directed by Neil Nightingale from a screenplay by John Collee and named after a classic television documentary miniseries.
Multiple Perspectives
This section, with its focus on multiple cultures, will show outstanding film works from all over the world and serve as a platform for exchanges between diverse cultures and international films updates. Films to be shown include The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Her, The Book Thief, The Counselor, The Terror Live, and The Fatal Encounter.
MIDA DOCU
This section shows quality documentary works each year and is highly regarded by audiences. A diverse range of documentaries will be shown this year, including The Armstrong Lie about the legendary cyclist, the Oscar-winning Searching for Sugar Man, and Dave Grohl\'s Sound City. These and other first class documentaries representing the grandest selection of Asian productions will provide audiences with a feast of masterpieces of peculiar perspective and profound themes.
Reproduced Classics
赌博app will join again this year with Jaeger-LeCoultre to present Reproduced Classics. 4K-restored colored films will be shown, including director Xie Jin\'s classic work Stage Sisters, starring Xie Fang, Cao Yindi and Shangguan Yunzhu, and which was a smash hit on its debut in 1965. Old movies including Myriads of Lights and This Life of Mine were also restored this year.
Movies that have been restored during past co-efforts with Jaeger-LeCoultre will continue to be screened at 赌博app, including The River Flows to the East, Crossroads, and Crow and Sparrow. This film-restoration activity, initiated by the international film festival and accomplished through joint efforts with professional restoration institutions, is rare and rewarding. It is strong evidence that 赌博app is fulfilling its role as a responsible leader in Chinese film and that China\'s diversified culture is being introduced to international audiences as a result.
Another piece of good news is that the 2K-restored version of Relationship and Responsibility, starring renowned actress Ruan Lingyu, will make its worldwide debut during 赌博app, signaling its return to Shanghai after 83 years.