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We're pleased to offer AN EVENING WITH ZHANG YIMOU, consisting of a screening of NOT ONE LESS with an in-depth master's class, followed by the presentation of LVHIFF's LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD to Director Zhang in person. Tickets are $25. No Flash Passes will be accepted for this special presentation.

Here's more information about the movie! Keep reading for information on LVHIFF's salute to a century of Chinese filmmaking!

 

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Oct 19, 6:00 PM, Dole Cannery. As part of AN EVENING WITH ZHANG YIMOU.

Provincial China, the present. Teacher Gao, who runs a primary school in the village of Shuixian, needs a month's leave to tend his dying mother. The mayor finds a substitute, 13-year-old Wei Minzhi. Little older than her charges, and armed only with an innate bossiness; neat handwriting and the ability to perform one song about Chariman Mao, Wei browbeats her students into learning and ventures to the big city to

"Zhang Yimou’s NOT ONE LESS enlarges the possibilities of filmmaking even as it grounds itself in one of cinema’s oldest, most basic principles: the camera’s ability to document reality. In NOT ONE LESS, he has chosen to work with a cast of ordinary villagers and city dwellers -- schoolchildren, shopkeepers and minor functionaries -- most of whom play themselves. And he has restrained his painterly temperament -- the sense of color and composition he used to magnificent effect in movies like JU DOU and RED SORGHUM -- preferring simply to observe the ragged textures and jerky rhythms of daily life in a poor, dusty corner of modern China.

"Despite its deliberate austerity, NOT ONE LESS is extraordinarily rich. And despite the look and pace of raw documentary film, the movie is a splendid, assured piece of storytelling. Its narrative emerges slowly and organically from a mass of observed detail so that it feels like a series of events the camera has discovered out in the world, rather than like the realization of a scheme the filmmaker has devised beforehand in his mind."

-- A.O. Scott, New York Times

Winner of the Golden Lion, Lanterna Magica, Serrgio Trasatti and UNICEF awards at the Venice Film Festival. Winner of the Audience Award at the Sao Paulo Film Festival. Director Zhang was awarded the Golden Rooster for Best Director for NOT ONE LESS, China's premiere film award.

Watch clips from the film or read an interview with Director Zhang!

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Oct 27, 6:15 PM, Doris Duke Theater. This year, 2005, has been named the Chinese Centennial Film Year by the China Film Archive; although motion pictures were exhibited and shot in China by foreigners within months of the first screenings in Europe and the U.S., 1905 is the first date in which there is concrete evidence of films made in China by the Chinese themselves.

LVHIFF is pleased to present the world premiere of LEGENDS OF THE LIGHT AND SHADOW. This documentary presents a full picture of the first 100 years of Chinese film history, focusing on Shanghai, the first city in China to show movies in public and the place that birthed and nurtured its first movie stars, such as the siren Ruan Lingyu, Hu Die and Zhao Dan.

LEGENDS screens with the earliest complete surviving Chinese film, LABOR'S LOVE. According to the Film Society of Lincoln Center, "It's a delightful slapstick comedy about an ambitious fruit vendor who falls in love with a doctor’s daughter. The doctor is against the match, but he’s also having trouble keeping his practice going, so the vendor devises an ingenious method to guarantee him a steady supply of patients." LABOR'S LOVE is directed by Zhang Shichuan, one of the founding father's of Chinese cinema and the film was named one of the 100 Greatest Chinese Films of the 20th Century by AsiaWeek Magazine.

Sponsored by Hawaii National Bank - K.J. Luke Foundation

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