Post Oscars Non Oscars Film Recommendations 「後奧斯卡/非奧斯卡」好戲推薦
Riding on the waves of the Oscars and the gradual relaxation of the COVID-19 restrictions, we are sure a lot of you have been in and out of the cinema quite often lately — nothing beats a pitch-black space where one can immerse into the stories of the others, stepping into their shoes, to anticipate, experience, and explore what is being shown on the big screen — as you find yourself, within a short few hours, slowly growing from a stranger to the protagonists on screen to an empathetic confidant of the souls struggling through their lives in front of you…
While there has been quite a lot of spotlight on the Oscars nominees (and indeed, we have quite a few favourites as well!), we would like to share with you our recent favourite “Post Oscars Non Oscars” films, which, we find particularly insightful and thought provoking.
Find out the full list below!
隨住最近嘅奧斯卡熱潮，限聚政策又稍有放寬，大家係咪都多咗出入戲院呢！喺一個黑鼆鼆嘅空間入面，坐好，放鬆，全情投入睇戲嘅感覺係最正㗎：就好似走入咗其他人嘅故事中咁，喺佢哋嘅角度感受、探索銀幕中嘅世界；而你喺短短嘅百幾二百分鐘入面，亦慢慢由一個隔住屏幕旁觀嘅陌生人，變成一個與戲中人同喜同悲嘅知心友⋯⋯
奧斯卡提名名單中就固然有好多好戲啦（我哋都有唔少心水㗎），但今次我哋反而就想分享吓，我哋覺得最能夠啟發思考嘅幾套「後奧斯卡/非奧斯卡」之選！
張名單喺度呀：
1. 《惡與他們的距離》There Is No Evil (dir. Mohammad Rasoulof) — Banned from leaving the country, the Iranian director, Rasoulof, portrays four heartbreaking stories of military men tasked with death executions as they struggle with the decisions they were to make on another human being’s life as well as that of the stories of their loved ones.
2. 《被消失的公義》The Collini Case (dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner) — Based on a piece of law enacted during the post-war period (the Dreher Law of 1968), the story starts with a coldblooded murder of a German tycoon by a 70-year-old Italian which gradually unfolds into a painful confrontation of a country’s painful past and history — a living statement to Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil”.
3.《毒水曝光》Minamata (dir. Andrew Levitas) — Starring Johnny Depp (who also produced) as American photojournalist, W. Eugene Smith, the film depicts Smith documenting the effects of mercury poisoning on the citizens of Minamata, Kumamoto, Japan in the 1970s as he faces not only threats from the giant Japanese corporation but also his own internal struggles and demons.
4. 看見緬甸Eyes on Burma — Carefully selected by Broadway Cinematheque are 5 films on the country of Burma, a country long under a veil from the eyes of the world. Recent happenings in Burma once again brought the country to the attention of the world — and indeed, many Hong Konger may probably find more similarities than differences with our brothers and sisters across the border fighting for freedom and justice. With a curious heart, we invite you to put your eyes on Burma, to understand their past, their present, their joy and their sorrow.
放映電影Film selection:
《緬甸起義：看不到的真相》Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (dir. Anders Østergaard)
《緬甸拉登》The Venerable W. (dir. Anders Østergaard)
《德昂》Ta’ang (dir. Bing Wang)
《金玉其外》Golden Kingdom (dir. Brian Perkins)
《玄來，僧的走不了》The Monk (dir. The Maw Naing)
5. 法國五月藝術節 Le French May — Last but not least, it’s the exciting month of May again where numerous of romantic, hysterical, funky (you name it!) French movies are waiting for you! Go visit
https://www.frenchmay.com/en/category/discover-programmes-en/films-en/ for more details!
