905 Film Network Special Article The 14th Beijing International Film Festival in 2024 will arrive as scheduled from April 18 to 26. During the 9-day event, there will be the main competition unit "Tiantan Award" awards, opening ceremony, There are more than 100 events including Beijing Screening, Beijing Planning·Theme Forum, Beijing Market, Film Carnival, 31st College Student Film Festival, Closing Ceremony and Awards Ceremony, and "Film+".
This time, more than 240 Chinese and foreign masterpieces were screened, with 750 screenings. "Today's Film Critic" invited curator Sha Dan to talk about the 14th Beijing International Film Festival and provide the audience with a film wandering guide.
Video introduction
At 12 noon on the 15th, the ticket purchase channel for the Beijing Film Festival opened. Within 2 hours, many movies were sold out.
The first movie ticket sold
The first movie ticket sold is the first to third episodes of "My Altay".
"My Altay"
Director: Teng Congcong
Plot summary: Li Wenxiu, a Han girl who grew up in Altay, pursues her literary dream in big cities but repeatedly runs into obstacles. She is forced to return to her hometown to depend on her mother who runs a canteen. After getting acquainted with the Kazakh boy Batai, Wenxiu gradually discovered the beauty of Altay.
Highlights: The drama is adapted from Li Juan's collection of essays of the same name "My Altay". The drama is innovative and breaks the rules. It is positioned as a contemporary national drama and is rooted in the customs and customs of Xinjiang. It is unique.
The top three best-selling movies
"Mima's House"
Director: Satoshi Kon
Dubbing: Junko Iwano, Rika Matsumoto, Chihachi Tsuji, Masaaki Okura
Plot summary: Idol singer Mima quits the Cham group and transforms into a career Life becomes chaotic as an actor.
Highlights: The film uses the narrative technique of "play within a play" and the lens editing design to develop the story, shape the characters, and highlight the creative style. It won the Best Asian Film Award at the Asian Fantasy Film Festival in 1997. After the ticket purchase channel for this year's Beijing Film Festival screenings was opened, "Wei Ma's House" ranked first in ticket sales with 5,499 movie tickets sold in 8 shows.
"Pulp Fiction"
Plot summary: The film is divided into five parts: prologue, "Vincent and Martha's wife", "gold watch", "Bonnie's situation", and the epilogue. The gangster Masha sent his subordinate Vincent to accompany his wife Mia. Mia kept flattering Vincent but he did not dare to act rashly. Unexpectedly, Mia overdosed on drugs and fell into a coma, which scared Vincent into panic.
Highlights: The movie explores the themes of sin and salvation. In the film, when faced with violence, traditional concepts of morality, justice, and right and wrong become blurred. The story begins with sin and ends with salvation. It develops on multiple lines and is intricate.
Plot summary: The film is set in the Jewish community of New York, USA. It tells the story of the protagonist "Noodles" who grew from an ignorant boy to a gangster. It also shows the history of gangs in the United States from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Highlights: The film was released in the United States in 1984. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the film's release. Following the appeal of movie fans, the film once again joined the ranks of the Beijing Film Festival.
The three fastest-selling movies
"Mei's Day and Night"
Director: Luo Dong
Plot summary: Yumei, who has experienced two failed marriages, still believes in "love" and travels through most of Shanghai every day, speeding on the elevated , going into the night under the elevated road, looking for a dance partner who might accompany her for the rest of her life.
Highlights: The film focuses on the elderly people who are trembling and eager to participate in social life. It is integrated into the inescapable background of the city of Shanghai and forms the soil of Shanghai's citizen culture.
Director: Yang Fan
Plot summary: With her otherworldly appearance, the singing girl Cuihua (played by Miyazawa Rie) in Deyuelou has become the object of pursuit of every man around her. What is even more fascinating is the Kunqu opera she sings, but Married into the Rong Mansion and became a concubine, she was entangled in her relationship with her family cousins Rong Lan (played by Wang Zuxian) and Xing Zhigang (played by Daniel Wu ).
Highlights: The film is narrated by Brigitte Lin. The beautiful scenery of Suzhou gardens, the gorgeous costumes in Kun Opera, and the handsome looks of Joey Wang, Rie Miyazawa, and Daniel Wu all add to the visual beauty of the film.
"Cangshan"
Director: Zhang Fan
Starring: Guo Keyu
Plot summary: A young girl who has been divorced for many years leaves her hometown Cangshan to escape the past. While doing housework in Shanghai, she also takes care of her Alzheimer's mother and her rebellious son who fell in love early. . After experiencing the hardships of life in a foreign land, she chose to return to her hometown of Cangshan, only to find that her hometown had changed its name.
Highlights: The film depicts the struggles of three generations between their hometown and a foreign land, the past and the future, in a lingering and detailed way. It conducts a profound pursuit and exploration of the place where they have come from that is difficult to recall.
The number of out-of-town movie fans at this Beijing International Film Festival increased by 3% compared with the previous year. In order to highlight the public attributes and adhere to the purpose of serving the public, the organizer thoughtfully prepared food maps and recommended travel routes for the audience, and launched "Xiu Chun Knife" Watch movies while waiting for discounts.
In the program, Shadan also proposed the "Beijing Film Festival Film Hitchhiker's Guide" to provide a reference for the movie-watching experience of movie fans from all over the country. The "Guide" is divided into the following three routes.
Route 1
Beijing Route: Watching Beijing in the Movies
The film works shown this time include many cultural landscapes with Beijing characteristics. For example, the movie "Dong Si Tiao" tells the story of two people, Dong Si and Shi Tiao, who live in an alley. Young people from out of town. After discovering a notice offering a huge reward, they began to search for a lost pigeon. They traveled to every corner of the alley, experienced spring, summer, autumn and winter, and realized the true meaning of life. "Dongsi Shitiao" is the tenth alley of Dongsi, located at the intersection of Dongsi Road, Dongcheng District, Beijing. There are a lot of scenes of drum towers in the film, so the film was chosen to be two distances from the Television Archive and the Broadway Film Center during the filming process. The theater is relatively close to the Drum Tower.
It is worth mentioning that the XR unit (i.e. immersive film interactive unit) of "Beijing Screening" will be used at the former site of Qianmen Hongqing Building to display the latest XR images to audiences who love cutting-edge technology and art with the largest exhibition area in history. The creative charm demonstrates China’s cultural subject consciousness and the symphony between civilization and culture.
Route 2
International route: Train travel with light and shadow
As the capital of a country, Beijing carries heavy diplomatic responsibilities. This year's Beijing Film Festival allows the audience to travel along the train of light and shadow through films that reflect important nodes in China's diplomatic history through silhouettes. For example, in order to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France, this year's screening launched a special exhibition "The Name of France", which spans 60 years and presents 11 classics and latest masterpieces of French film history to the audience.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Brazil, the film festival established the "Brazilian Film Week" to bring together four outstanding Brazilian film and television works this year.
Among them, the specially launched adventure film "Black God, White Devil" directed by Glauber Rocha tells the story of a worker in northeastern Brazil who killed his boss out of self-defense, began to escape, and became a knight and a knight. The story of bandits who used violent revolution to return land to the people. The film incorporates a large number of elements of Brazilian folklore and has a unique style.
Route Three
"Come to Beijing to watch the best movies in spring", let the charm of light and shadow fully unfold in the bright spring scenery of April in Beijing.
