Fortissimo Films has acquired global rights to Larry Yang’s Mountain Cry, which will receive its world premiere as the closing film of this year’s Busan International Film Festival (Biff) on October 10.
The film is the first of an initial slate of five films to be produced jointly by Village Roadshow Pictures Asia (Vrpa) and China’s Hairun Pictures.
Set in a remote mountain village in the mid 1980s, it follows a mysterious young mute woman and her two children who upend the village’s tight-knit community structure. Lang Yueting (Office) and Wang Ziyi (Chongqing Blues) head the cast.
The film was produced by Vrpa CEO Ellen Eliasoph and Hairun vice president Victoria Hon with Yanming Liu and Greg Basser serving as executive producers.
Vrpa boarded the project after it won the prize for ‘Best Commercial Potential’ at last year’s Beijing International Film Festival ‘Pitch & Catch’ event.
Vrpa and Hairun will jointly release the film...
The film is the first of an initial slate of five films to be produced jointly by Village Roadshow Pictures Asia (Vrpa) and China’s Hairun Pictures.
Set in a remote mountain village in the mid 1980s, it follows a mysterious young mute woman and her two children who upend the village’s tight-knit community structure. Lang Yueting (Office) and Wang Ziyi (Chongqing Blues) head the cast.
The film was produced by Vrpa CEO Ellen Eliasoph and Hairun vice president Victoria Hon with Yanming Liu and Greg Basser serving as executive producers.
Vrpa boarded the project after it won the prize for ‘Best Commercial Potential’ at last year’s Beijing International Film Festival ‘Pitch & Catch’ event.
Vrpa and Hairun will jointly release the film...
- 8/26/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Fortissimo Films has acquired global rights to Larry Yang’s Mountain Cry, which will receive its world premiere as the closing film of this year’s Busan International Film Festival (Biff) on October 10.
The film is the first of an initial slate of five films to be produced jointly by Village Roadshow Pictures Asia (Vrpa) and China’s Hairun Pictures.
Set in a remote mountain village in the mid 1980s, it follows a mysterious young mute woman and her two children who upend the village’s tight-knit community structure. Lang Yueting (Office) and Wang Ziyi (Chongqing Blues) head the cast.
The film was produced by Vrpa CEO Ellen Eliasoph and Hairun vice president Victoria Hon with Yanming Liu and Greg Basser serving as executive producers. Vrpa boarded the project after it won the prize for ‘Best Commercial Potential’ at last year’s Beijing International Film Festival ‘Pitch & Catch’ event.
Vrpa and Hairun will jointly release the film...
The film is the first of an initial slate of five films to be produced jointly by Village Roadshow Pictures Asia (Vrpa) and China’s Hairun Pictures.
Set in a remote mountain village in the mid 1980s, it follows a mysterious young mute woman and her two children who upend the village’s tight-knit community structure. Lang Yueting (Office) and Wang Ziyi (Chongqing Blues) head the cast.
The film was produced by Vrpa CEO Ellen Eliasoph and Hairun vice president Victoria Hon with Yanming Liu and Greg Basser serving as executive producers. Vrpa boarded the project after it won the prize for ‘Best Commercial Potential’ at last year’s Beijing International Film Festival ‘Pitch & Catch’ event.
Vrpa and Hairun will jointly release the film...
- 8/26/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Larry Yang’s Mountain Cry, co-produced by Hairun Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures Asia, started production today in the Taihang Mountains of China’s Shanxi Province.
Yang, a young mainland Chinese filmmaker, has also written the script based on Ge Shuiping’s award-winning Chinese novel of the same name.
Set in a remote village, the story begins with the sudden death of a husband and father whose family is new to the village’s tight-knit community. Following his death, the villagers get to know the man’s widow, a mysterious mute with the power to tell her story wordlessly.
Ge’s novel was inspired by real life events that occurred in the Taihang Mountain region where she grew up and still lives today.
Lang Yueting plays the mute wife, while Wang Ziyi plays the role of Han Chong, a young man in the village who is forced to take responsibility for her husband’s death.
Lang...
Yang, a young mainland Chinese filmmaker, has also written the script based on Ge Shuiping’s award-winning Chinese novel of the same name.
Set in a remote village, the story begins with the sudden death of a husband and father whose family is new to the village’s tight-knit community. Following his death, the villagers get to know the man’s widow, a mysterious mute with the power to tell her story wordlessly.
Ge’s novel was inspired by real life events that occurred in the Taihang Mountain region where she grew up and still lives today.
Lang Yueting plays the mute wife, while Wang Ziyi plays the role of Han Chong, a young man in the village who is forced to take responsibility for her husband’s death.
Lang...
- 10/5/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Highly acclaimed Sixth Generation Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai returns with his latest work “Chongqing Blues”, completing the multiple award winning ‘City Trilogy’ which began with “Beijing Bicycle” in 2001 and “Shanghai Dreams” in 2005. Although very much in his grounded, naturalistic style, the film is most accessible to date, having a notably higher budget than his previous works and boasting a top cast headlined by Wang Xueqi (“Bodyguards and Assassins”) and Fan Bingbing (“Wheat”), with support from Qin Hao (“Spring Fever”) and up and coming young actors Zi Yi and Li Feier, The film has been another hit with critics around the world, being the only Mainland China entry at Cannes in 2010, and having played a variety of festivals including London in October. Based upon a real life incident, the film is unsurprisingly set in Chongqing, and follows a sailor called Lin Quanhai (Wang Xueqi), who returns home after 15 years of absence...
- 12/17/2010
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Chongqing Blues is a title of Chinese drama movie, directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, and written by Yang Yishu and above mentioned director.
It was the only Chinese film selected for the official In Competition section at the Cannes Film Festival 2010 so we are here today to have a little chat about this interesting project.
You can call it emotional story. You can call it family story. Or, you can just call it moving drama set in the Sichuan city of Chongqing…
Let’s start with the official Chongqing Blues synopsis: “Lin, a sea captain, returns from a 6 month journey when he is told that his 25-year-old son Lin Bo has been gunned down by the police.
In his quest to understand what happened, he realizes he knew very little about his own son. He starts a journey back to Chongqin, a city he once lived. He will understand the impact...
It was the only Chinese film selected for the official In Competition section at the Cannes Film Festival 2010 so we are here today to have a little chat about this interesting project.
You can call it emotional story. You can call it family story. Or, you can just call it moving drama set in the Sichuan city of Chongqing…
Let’s start with the official Chongqing Blues synopsis: “Lin, a sea captain, returns from a 6 month journey when he is told that his 25-year-old son Lin Bo has been gunned down by the police.
In his quest to understand what happened, he realizes he knew very little about his own son. He starts a journey back to Chongqin, a city he once lived. He will understand the impact...
- 5/20/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
I woke up with a serious case of Cannes Envy this morning. There's no way around unwanted feelings so you plunge in them to get to the other side. That's the way to do it, right? Or that's the way Nathaniel (c'est moi) does it. Maybe that's the masochist's way? So herewith... random thoughts on Cannes photos, fashions, and tweets from people I was exceptionally jealous of all day. Cuz they're... you know... there. In the thick of it.
Please note: If y'all don't start commenting soon, we're likely to take a long summer hiatus and see you ungrateful beyootches in October when Oscar buzz heats up. Comments are like food. Feed the insatiable Film Experience Beast!
We begin with two questions starring Gael García Bernal.
1. Is he, like, inviting us to pose with him here? Won't he be crushed in the mass forward rush of crazed lustful exhibitionist fans?...
Please note: If y'all don't start commenting soon, we're likely to take a long summer hiatus and see you ungrateful beyootches in October when Oscar buzz heats up. Comments are like food. Feed the insatiable Film Experience Beast!
We begin with two questions starring Gael García Bernal.
1. Is he, like, inviting us to pose with him here? Won't he be crushed in the mass forward rush of crazed lustful exhibitionist fans?...
- 5/16/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Above: Mimi Branescu (left) in Tuesday, After Christmas.
Eyes crammed with images, ears filled to the brim with sound, and the brain jet-lagged, over-tired, over-joyed, and over-wearied—instant festival criticism is a talent of the rare stalwart few. This year I'm thinking of a different approach, leaving to the inexhaustible and comprehensive David Hudson the brilliant but unenviable task of up to the minute roundups of all from that Croisette that's fit to print (on your screen). Centering our on the ground coverage of the festival will take the form primarily of my favorite moment missives—the festival being such a sloppy, overwhelming explosion of cinema that anything but short impressions of memory seems imprecise and over-eager. So stay tuned til after the fest for a more indepth rundown. But for now, cine-critique fired from the hip!
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On Tour (Mathieu Amalric, France): Behind the Looking Glass
The first film I caught at the festival,...
Eyes crammed with images, ears filled to the brim with sound, and the brain jet-lagged, over-tired, over-joyed, and over-wearied—instant festival criticism is a talent of the rare stalwart few. This year I'm thinking of a different approach, leaving to the inexhaustible and comprehensive David Hudson the brilliant but unenviable task of up to the minute roundups of all from that Croisette that's fit to print (on your screen). Centering our on the ground coverage of the festival will take the form primarily of my favorite moment missives—the festival being such a sloppy, overwhelming explosion of cinema that anything but short impressions of memory seems imprecise and over-eager. So stay tuned til after the fest for a more indepth rundown. But for now, cine-critique fired from the hip!
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On Tour (Mathieu Amalric, France): Behind the Looking Glass
The first film I caught at the festival,...
- 5/14/2010
- MUBI
Robert here, scouring the internet to give you the latest on the films premiering in Cannes
Opening Film
Robin Hood Reviews for Ridley Scott & Russell Crowe's Robin Hood origin story have been up for a little while and they're decidedly mixed. Todd McCarthy over at IndieWIRE calls it "a fashionably gritty period drama, conceived by intelligent minds and handsomely decked out, but featuring no beating heart or compelling raison d’etre." But Empire Magazine declares it "the mullet-free Robin Hood movie we’ve been waiting decades for." Over at Little White Lies, the main complaint seems to be that "Robin Hood doesn’t seem too certain what to do with itself."In Competition
Chongqing Blues Director Xiaoshuai Wang's film about a Captain returning home from sea to find his son has been the victim of a police shooting is starting off the film with mixed reviews. The Hollywood...
Opening Film
Robin Hood Reviews for Ridley Scott & Russell Crowe's Robin Hood origin story have been up for a little while and they're decidedly mixed. Todd McCarthy over at IndieWIRE calls it "a fashionably gritty period drama, conceived by intelligent minds and handsomely decked out, but featuring no beating heart or compelling raison d’etre." But Empire Magazine declares it "the mullet-free Robin Hood movie we’ve been waiting decades for." Over at Little White Lies, the main complaint seems to be that "Robin Hood doesn’t seem too certain what to do with itself."In Competition
Chongqing Blues Director Xiaoshuai Wang's film about a Captain returning home from sea to find his son has been the victim of a police shooting is starting off the film with mixed reviews. The Hollywood...
- 5/13/2010
- by Robert
- FilmExperience
Over the weekend I was hard at work adding additional titles debuting at this year's 2010 Cannes Film Festival in an effort to make sure once I am in town it is all about seeing the movies and working as little as possible on the asset process. As a result, I now have 17 of the 18 films in competition in the database as information on Sergei Loznitsa's Schastye Moe (My Joy) doesn't seem to be available. However, information on the other 17 is now readily available along with some new pictures and trailers for several of them.
First off, to the right is one of the first three images available for Mathieu Amalric's Tournee, of which I also have the official synopsis for the film from the man most of you know as the villain from Quantum of Solace or Jean-Dominique Bauby from The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
In Tournee...
First off, to the right is one of the first three images available for Mathieu Amalric's Tournee, of which I also have the official synopsis for the film from the man most of you know as the villain from Quantum of Solace or Jean-Dominique Bauby from The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
In Tournee...
- 5/3/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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