January 08, 2025

Hou Hsiao-Hsien's THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI Screens at New York's Asia Society and Museum on January 8th

January 08, 2025/ Jon Gartenberg

Tonight, January 8th, at 6:30pm, an imported 35mm print of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI (1983) will screen at New York’s Asia Society and Museum as part of Films To See Before You Die, an ongoing monthly series featuring “classic films and underseen gems from across Asia and the Asian diaspora with extended introductions by Asia Society's Curator of Film.” GME distributes THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI in the collection HOU HSIAO-HSIEN: EARLY WORKS, which also features the filmmaker’s earlier features CUTE GIRL (1980) and THE GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME (1982). The collection is available to North American academic institutions as a DVD published by Cinematek, which includes three audiovisual essays by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López as bonus features, and is accompanied by a multi-lingual booklet by Tom Paulus.

The Sweet Life - Raimondo Borea Photographs Federico Fellini in Rome

January 05, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

Following the release of Fellini’s masterpiece, LA DOLCE VITA, in 1960, photographer Raimondo Borea, traveling on assignment for NBC’s Today, captured this portrait of himself (center) with the director (right) and Today’s Dave Garroway (left) in the Piazza Navona. LA DOLCE VITA screens at the Museum of Modern Art on Sunday, 1/9/22.

Gideon Bachmann’s Interviews with Filmmakers Screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival

August 24, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

The 34th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival is presenting three films by Gideon Bachmann in it’s DOCUMENTS AND DOCUMENTARIES: FELLINI, CAVANI, TAVIANI program. Screenings beginning August 25th include “NOW I WILL TELL YOU, AFTER ALL” – FEDERICO FELLINI’S LAST/LOST INTERVIEW (1985), and continue with LILIANA CAVANI: INTERNO BERLINESE (1985), and PAOLO E VITTORIO TAVIANI: GOOD MORNING CINEMA (1987).

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