To celebrate one hundred years of Chinese cinema, Hong Kong Film Awards just release a list of The Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures. 1948's black and white classic Springtime in a Small Town by director Fei Mu is rank No. 1 on the list. Among 103 films on the list, there are 11 films from China (pre-1949), 13 films from the mainland China (post-1949), 61 films from Hong Kong (no surprise, since the list was prepare by Hong Kong filmmakers), 16 film from Taiwan (post-1949), 1 Hong Kong and the mainland China co-production and 1 Taiwan and Hong Kong co-production.
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 3 April 2005 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)
that's just bizarre.
― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 3 April 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)
I'm going to have to watch some Edward Yang. I picked up Yi Yi this weekend but haven't watched it yet.
No "Goodbye Dragon Inn"? Sadness....
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Monday, 4 April 2005 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― ryan (ryan), Monday, 4 April 2005 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)
Time Out poll of 100 best mainland films
http://www.timeoutshanghai.com/features/Books__Film-Film_features/18155/100-best-Chinese-Mainland-Films-The-Countdown.html
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 April 2014 19:30 (twelve years ago)