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The Boys From Fengkuei
''The Boys from Fengkuei'' (also known as ''All the Youthful Days'') () is a 1983 film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. Synopsis Ah-ching ( Doze Niu) and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, Fengkuei, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Ah-ching, together with Ah-rong ( Chang Shih) and Kuo-tzu (Chao Peng-chue) decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an apartment through relatives, and Ah-ching is attracted to Hsiao-hsing (Hsiu-ling Lin) the girlfriend of Huang Chin-ho (Tou Chung-hua), a neighbor. There they face the harsh realities of the big city and of growing up. Awards The film won the Golden Montgolfiere at the 1984 Nantes Three Continents Festival The Festival des 3 Continents is an annual film festival held since 1979 in Nantes, France, and is devoted to the cinemas of Asia, and Africa and Latin America. It was founded by Philippe and Alain Jalladeau. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Hou Hsiao-hsien (; born 8 April 1947) is a Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film ''A City of Sadness'' (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for '' The Assassin'' (2015). Other highly regarded works of his include '' The Puppetmaster'' (1993) and ''Flowers of Shanghai'' (1998). Hou was voted "Director of the Decade" for the 1990s in a poll of American and international critics by ''The Village Voice'' and ''Film Comment''. In a 1998 New York Film Festival worldwide critics' poll, Hou was named "one of the three directors most crucial to the future of cinema." ''A City of Sadness'' ranked 117th in the British Film Institute's 2012 ''Sight & Sound'' critics' poll of the greatest films ever made. In 2017, Metacritic ranked Hsiao-hsien 16th on its list of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Montgolfiere
The Festival des 3 Continents is an annual film festival held since 1979 in Nantes, France, and is devoted to the cinemas of Asia, and Africa and Latin America. It was founded by Philippe and Alain Jalladeau.Deccan Herald , "Films from three continents", Retrieved 12-15-2008 The top award in the festival's competition is the balloon shaped Montgolfiere d'or. In conjunction with the festival is the Produire au Sud, or Producers of the South, a project that provides funding to independent film productions from Asia, Africa and Latin America. List of Montgolfière d'or winners Further reading *''Asia's magic lantern'', *''Festival of Three Continents'' ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Set In Penghu
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
