The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society will attempt to enthrall cinephiles with another spectacular edition of the Cine Fan programme in September and October, featuring works by David Cronenberg and Alain Resnais. One of the most sought-after tickets at the 46th Hong Kong International Film Festival this year was CRONENBER's Crimes of the Future, which many compared to an encapsulation of the themes that pervaded his illustrious career. In close pursuit, Cine Fan's nine-film David Cronenberg, The Master of Body Horror retrospective will provide viewers with a thorough overview of the Canadian auteur's distinctive cinema. Cronenberg is known for using horror and science fiction elements to explore the unsettling intersections between technology, the human body, and subconscious desire. Starting with his first commercial film, Shivers (1975), the program features a wide range of his work, including relationship and reproductive phobia in The Brood (1979) and The Fly (1986), primal violence in Scanners (1981), foreshadowing technophobia in Videodrome (1983) and eXistenZ (1999), and chilling psychological horror in Dead Ringers (1988), Naked Lunch (1991), and Crash (1996). These works all work together to address our current anxieties. Alain Resnais - The Meanderings of Memory honors the French New Wave master on the occasion of his 100th birthday by showcasing his eerily evocative filmmaking, which is packed with poetic imagery, superb composition, a labyrinthine structure, and compelling montages. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) and Last Year at Marienbad (1961), two of RESNAIS' most well-known works, are prime examples of his concerns with time, memory, and how the past interacts with the present. His concerns are further developed in the somber Love Unto Death (1984) and Mélo (1986). In addition to The War is Over (1966) and Stavisky (1974), two of RESNAIS' films that are overtly political, he also experimented with the subconscious and creativity in Providence (1977) and My American Uncle (1980), as well as his playful adaptations of plays in the interactive features Smoking (1993) and No Smoking (1993). Altered States (1980), a cult masterpiece by British director Ken RUSSELL that prefigures The Fly, completes the CRONENBERG thrillers in this September/October edition of the Cine Fan program. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), one of the most popular science fiction adventures of the 1950s, and the incomparable Charles LAUGHTON's directorial masterpiece The Night of the Hunter (1955), which contributes cinema's most outlandish depiction of the conflict between "love" and "hate," are all equally engrossing. Cat People (1942), a gothic tale by French director Jacques TOURNEUR. You can access the complete programme and schedule of Cine Fan's September/October edition, with online and in-theatre screenings, through its official website: https://cinefan.hkiff.org.hk/en. Tickets to all in-theatre screenings can be purchased from URBTIX from 19 August. Passes to all online viewings are available from […]
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