Hong Kong International Film Festival Society

九月 15, 2006

HKIFF “Czech New Wave” 3rd – 22nd October, 2006

Filed under: 未分類 — hkiff @ 3:29 am

From the moment I started directing, the films that came closest to my idea of cinema were that group that came out from Czechoslovakia in the Sixties. They were all made in a way that I found very sympathetic, and they are still very much the template I have in mind when I’m working nowadays.
Ken Loach

With autumn breeze taking over the summer heat wave, the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society proudly presents our latest program “Czech New Wave”, which features 12 Czech masterpieces from the 1960s. From 3rd to 22nd October 2006, these artistic and thought-provoking Czech films will be screened at HK Film Archive and UA Langham Place. They are sensational must-see’s for filmbuffs.

Since the days of silents, Czech cinema has enjoyed a rich and varied tradition. Despite the blows to artistic freedom inflicted by repressive regimes, Czech rose against the social realist party line in the 1950s. By the 1960s, Czech directors dazzled the world with masterpieces like Peter and Pavla, Daisies, Intimate Lightning and Closely Watched Trains, and seized major prizes at A-list festivals.

The movement brought together three generations in a united front against socio-political realities. The Czech New Wave reached full blossom during the Prague Spring of 1968. The Czech New Wave blazed a trail with the passion and courage to break out of the mode, becoming synonymous with a film vocabulary that intimated that “anything is possible.” Since the 1970s, these timeless works have had almost zero exposure in Hong Kong until now.

九月 11, 2006

有關電影節

Filed under: HKIFF enquiries — hkiff @ 2:44 am

你有有關香港國際電影節的題問? 例如有中文字幕的電影就代表有本地發行?? 或其餘的種種謬誤 …  

九月 6, 2006

F Cube

Filed under: F Cube — hkiff @ 1:17 pm

F Cube 現在免費入會?! 點解話免費?因為入會雖然要俾 $100 入會費, 但即時俾番兩張 第三十一屆香港國際電影節 換票証俾你. (價值 $110) 新入會同續會都有優惠, 除左戲飛, 仲有 一項自選精品: – 原裝電影海報 – 電影或電影節宣傳品 – 精選電影節禮品 有錢都買唔到!!!

九月 5, 2006

10月放映 – 捷克新浪潮

Filed under: Czech New Wave — hkiff @ 7:58 am

   從一執導開始,最貼近自己理念的,就是六十年代的捷克電影。我發覺這些作品,都拍得很悲天憫人,時至今日,我拍戲時,這些作品依舊是我的引路明燈。                 

堅‧盧治 Ken Loach

   捷克其實是電影的一片沃土,早在默片時代便已開花結果,電影傳統由來已久,可惜在上個世紀極權統治的漫長歲月裡,電影創作的生存空間慘遭扼殺。然而,六十年代畢竟是電影的美好歲月,法國新浪潮後有德國新電影第一波,意大利新寫實主義後亦大師湧現,那個時候的荷里活,也吹起獨立電影新風,而捷克電影,不約而同亦經歷了一場思想自由的洗禮。

   這股風氣隱隱然始於五十年代,捷克電影界開始跟官方的社會寫實文藝路線大唱反調(文壇與藝圈亦然)。到了1963年,猶如1959年的法國,捷克新浪潮導演陸續拍出了首作,如驚雷震驚國際,此後每年的國際影展,例必一部捷克傑作捧走大獎。捷克電影成了一個現象:《大街上的商店》及《嚴密監視的列車》先後拿下奧斯卡最佳外語片獎;《彼德與柏芙拉》、《金髮女郎之戀》與《雛孖菊》紛紛打入法國《電影筆記》最佳電影榜;《親密閃光》成了奇斯洛夫斯基的十大至愛;偷運出國避過一劫的《消防員舞會》,給杜魯福買下版權。捷克電影從此跑進了世界電影版圖。

   法國新浪潮打著反傳統的旗號,捷克新浪潮卻不,那是老中青三代導演走在一起,去回應當前社會與政治現實。他們的風格各適其適,最聞名的科曼率先走到街頭拍生活,用攝影機凝視尋常事物;齊媞洛娃以極端的非敘事手法炮製開放文本,叫觀眾解讀箇中意義。其他導演儘管風格與關注不一,但同以自身獨特的文化及生存智慧,以舉重若輕的姿態探索最深沉的主題。

   1968年布拉格之春提出「具有人性面孔的社會主義」,捷克電影亦發展至極盛,五年間湧現佳作六十部。但同年五千蘇聯坦克壓境,將短暫的璀璨與奇蹟一併壓破。捷克新浪潮雖成歷史,但卻等同「一切皆可能」的電影辭彙,其不囿於形式框框的生氣與勇氣,對電影的熱切與盼望,令他們的作品永不過時。新浪潮土壤其後另地開花,科曼、巴薩與雷米克先後到了美國,科曼更繼續拍出經典,如《飛越瘋人院》與《莫札特傳》。

   捷克電影新浪潮在香港的曝光率幾乎是零,這次我們精選的十二部作品,絕對是親歷一地電影奇蹟的難得機會。

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