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Jiang Wen: a Retrospective Filmhouse, Edinburgh: 11 March - 1 April 2019 the Programme Filmhouse, Edinburgh: 11 March - 1 April 2019 FILM SEASON JIANG WEN: A RETROSPECTIVE FILMHOUSE, EDINBURGH: 11 MARCH - 1 APRIL 2019 THE PROGRAMME FILMHOUSE, EDINBURGH: 11 MARCH - 1 APRIL 2019 FOR DIRECTIONS AND CONTACT DETAILS, PLEASE SEE THE INSIDE BACK COVER. Mon 11 March Wed 13 March 17:50 18:15 In the Heat Red Sorghum of the Sun Introduced by Introduced by Dr Huang Xuelei Prof Natascha Gentz Mon 18 March Thu 21 March 20:30 18:05 Black Snow Keep Cool Introduced by Introduced by Noemi Prof Natascha Gentz Lemoine-Blanchard Mon 25 March Wed 27 March 17:45 18:00 Devils on the The Missing Gun Doorstep Introduced by Dr Julian Ward Mon 1 April 17:45 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story TO FIND OUT MORE, VISIT OUR SPECIAL JIANG WEN MINI-SITE confuciusinstitute.ac.uk/film WELCOME ‘THIS IS NOT SO MUCH ABOUT CHINA ONLY, IT IS ABOUT WORLD-CLASS FILMMAKING AT ITS BEST.’ NATASCHA GENTZ We are delighted We invited one of China’s most popular to bring to you a independent writers, Xu Zechen to present retrospective of his book at the Edinburgh International Jiang Wen, one Book Festival and the film version at the of the most well- International Film Festival, again to packed known, popular and audiences in the Filmhouse. In addition, loved film actors in the summer of 2018 we presented the and directors in Chinese Visual Festival there. China. We very much hope you share This year’s full retrospective of one of our passion for this internationally China’s best actors and directors is again acclaimed Chinese film artist. a first of its kind. Jiang Wen is one of For over a decade, we have enjoyed China’s most celebrated actor-directors a partnership with the Filmhouse in and screenwriters. His career has ranged Edinburgh, Beijing Film Academy and from debuting as the child Emperor Pu Yi to China Film Archive introducing Chinese collaborating with the well-known director cinema to Scottish and wider British Zhang Yimou in Red Sorghum and Keep audiences. In 2007, we were honoured to Cool, before going on to direct a number work with Mark Cousins, Director of the of well-received films. He even found time Edinburgh International Film Festival, who to take a starring role in Rogue One: A Star organised the first UK-wide China Film Wars Story. In this selection of films, we aim Festival CinemaChina2007, with famous to reflect his diverse and inspiring portfolio, actress Maggie Cheung and leading and hope you will see, this is not so much director Xie Fei as honorary guests to host about China only, it is about world-class Gala shows and give master classes at the filmmaking at its best. Filmhouse. The fully packed cinemas and We wish to thank our partners, in particular enthusiastic feedback greatly inspired us to the China Film Archive, but also Golden take this initiative further. Harvest Distribution and Emperor Motion In 2009, we presented an award-winning Pictures for their great support in bringing Fringe Show by the Beijing Film Academy these films to Edinburgh. in the University’s iconic McEwan Hall, I hope you enjoy this season. producing a novel version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream involving cutting-edge computer animation technology. Over the years, we have invited China’s foremost directors of independent documentary films, including the doyen of Chinese Professor Natascha Gentz documentary films, Wu Wenguang, and Director acclaimed writer-turned-filmmaker Xu Xing. Confucius Institute for Scotland 1 ‘JIANG IS AN INSTITUTION, A POWERFUL NATIONAL FIGURE WITH A STRONG SENSE OF HIS OWN CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE.’ SHELLY KRAICER, CINEMA SCOPE, 2011 Above Jiang Wen as former convict, Li Huiqian in Xie Fei’s Black Snow. 2 JIANG WEN ACTOR, SCREENWRITER & FILM DIRECTOR ‘WHEN I MEET A GOOD ACTOR, I WOULD LIKE TO BE A DIRECTOR. WHEN I MEET A GOOD DIRECTOR, I WOULD LIKE TO BE AN ACTOR. WHEN THERE IS A GOOD SCRIPT, I WOULD LIKE TO BE BOTH A DIRECTOR AND AN ACTOR. THE SWITCH IS VERY NATURAL, NOT INTENTIONAL.’ JIANG WEN, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Born in 1963, Jiang Wen graduated from war through the absurd interrogation of a the renowned Beijing Central Academy Japanese soldier in a Chinese village. of Drama in acting in 1984. During this period, he kept his acting He started his career with outstanding career up, often playing sympathetic performances in lead roles such as in Xie outcasts or gauche characters. Under the Jin’s Hibiscus Town (1987), Zhang Yimou’s direction of Zhang Yimou for the second Red Sorghum (1988) and Xie Fei’s Black time in the urban comedy Keep Cool Snow (1990). Red Sorghum was a Golden (1997), he plays a bashful lover with a Bear Winner at the Berlinale and Jiang stutter, and in the debut black comedy Wen was nominated twice at the Chinese of Lu Chuan The Missing Gun (2002), he Golden Rooster Awards for his role. portrays a policeman desperately trying to track down the gun that he has lost. In this first period of his career, he built a strong acting reputation at home and In 2007, he set up his own film company abroad as Chinese cinema was making its and returned to directing with critically entry into the European film festival scene acclaimed The Sun Also Rises, nominated with a number of acclaimed films post- at Venice. Hereafter he developed his Cultural Revolution. signature style with more commercial, action-comedy films. In his trilogy Let the Jiang Wen then started venturing into Bullets Fly (2010), Gone with the Bullets directing with two films which established (2014) and Hidden Man (2018), he sets him as a serious director. In the Heat of the Western-style intrigues of bandits and Sun (1994) was nominated at the Venice schemers against the tumultuous backdrop Film Festival and awarded best director at of the Republican era (1920s-1930s) in the Golden Horse Film Festival in Taiwan. which he also stars in central roles. Devils on the Doorstep (2000) was awarded the ‘Grand Prix’ by the jury at Cannes With his celebrity status in China, he was Festival, but this film also cost him a seven- cast in the Hollywood production Rogue year ban from film-making for its portrayal of One (2016) alongside Hong Kong actor the sensitive topic of the Sino-Japanese war. Donnie Yen. In these two canons of Chinese cinema, The collection of films in this retrospective he skilfully explores the unreliability of offers an overview of his oeuvre’s historical memory, narrativising the Cultural milestones and a glimpse of his genius Revolution through the perspective of a shortly after his latest Hidden Man featured young adolescent, and the Sino-Japanese at the Toronto International Film Festival. 3 IN THE HEAT OF THE SUN 阳光灿烂的日子 YANGGUANGCANLAN DE RIZI MONDAY 11 MARCH 17:50 For his directorial debut, Jiang Wen made SUGGESTED AGE CERTIFICATE: 12 a dramatic entrance into film. Adapted from Wild Beasts a novella written by Tickets £8 / Concessions £6 Wang Shuo, a Beijing writer renowned Director: Jiang Wen for so-called ‘hoodlum literature’, In the China, 1994 Heat of the Sun recounts the story of Fiction, 134 minutes teenager, Ma Xiaojun, growing up during Mandarin with English subtitles the Cultural Revolution. Format: DCP Sheltered from the turmoil raging Cast throughout the country, Ma and his gang Xia Yu, Ning Jing, Geng Le. are locked within the military compound of their parents in the army. Free of parental Preceded by an introduction by supervision, the teenagers pursue their Professor Natascha Gentz own revolution involving competing for girls and flexing their muscles. 4 RED SORGHUM 红高粱 HONG GAOLIANG WEDNESDAY 13 MARCH 18:15 Projecting Zhang Yimou on the AGE CERTIFICATE: 15 international festival stage, his directorial debut, adapted from a novel by Tickets £8 / Concessions £6 Nobel Prize-winning author Mo Yan, Director: Zhang Yimou features Jiang Wen’s early remarkable China, 1988 performance. Fiction, 91 minutes In the Shandong countryside of the 1930s, Mandarin with English subtitles Jiu’er (Gong Li) becomes the wife of a Format: DCP wine distillery owner through an arranged Cast marriage. After her husband’s death, she Jiang Wen, Gong Li. takes over the business and has to protect the distillery from local bandits amidst the Preceded by an introduction by threat of Japanese troops. Meanwhile she is Dr Huang Xuelei, University of Edinburgh ‘reclaimed’ by a man she had an encounter with some time ago. 5 BLACK SNOW 本命年 BENMINGNIAN MONDAY 18 MARCH 20:30 Famous director Xie Fei’s dark fiction sets AGE CERTIFICATE: 15 the stage for a dramatic performance from Jiang Wen, acting as an uneducated Tickets £8 / Concessions £6 yet well-intentioned convict. The film was Director: Xie Fei awarded a Silver Bear at the 40th Berlin China, 1990 International Film Festival in 1990. Fiction, 107 minutes After his release from labour camp, Li Mandarin with English subtitles Huiqian (Jiang Wen) returns home to live Format: DCP with distant relatives. He tries to start his Cast new life by setting up a business in Beijing, Jiang Wen, Cai Hongxiang, Cheng Li, but struggles to adapt to a city that has Li Geng. changed enormously during his absence. Preceded by an introduction by Professor Natascha Gentz 6 KEEP COOL 有话好好说 YOUHUA HAOHAO SHUO THURSDAY 21 MARCH 18:05 Zhang Yimou’s Keep Cool is set in SUGGESTED AGE CERTIFICATE: 12 modern day 1990s Beijing, in stark contrast to his previous allegorical period Tickets £8 / Concessions £6 films that were emblematic of the Fifth Director: Zhang Yimou Generation of Chinese filmmakers. China, 1997 Discussing the film after its completion, Fiction, 90 minutes Zhang Yimou expressed his satisfaction with Mandarin with English subtitles Jiang Wen’s acting, describing him as ‘the Format: DCP best actor in China today’ (New York Times).
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