- Description:
- BluRay - Zone A. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
24 fps
Titles
+ Rouge
- Alternate Title:
- Yinji Kau
- Director:
- Kwan, Stanley
- Production Co:
- Golden Harvest Company; Golden Way Films Ltd.
- Running Time:
- Feature. 98 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Hong Kong
- Year:
- 1987
- Language:
- Cantonese with English subtitles.
- Genre:
- Drama, Romance, Fantasy, Music, Mystery, LGBT Interest
- Notes:
- Cantopop superstars Anita Mui Yim-fong and Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing display their iconic androgynous magnetism as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong’s Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan. ‘Rouge’ bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide pact amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong. Fifty years later, she returns to the city-state to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple (Alex Man Chi-leung and Emily Chu Bo-yee) into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself. With its lush mise-en-scène and transcendently melancholy mood, this sensuous ghost story is an exquisite, enduringly resonant elegy for both lost love and vanishing history.
New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Stanley Kwan, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Interview with Stanley Kwan
- Production Co:
- The Criterion Collection
- Running Time:
- Short. 40 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Hong Kong
- Year:
- 2022
- Language:
- Cantonese with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Interview
- Notes:
- This career-spanning interview with director Stanley Kwan conducted by his mentee, filmmaker Sasha Chuk, was recorded for the Criterion Collection in Hong Kong in February 2022.
+ Yang + Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
- Director:
- Kwan, Stanley
- Production Co:
- British Film Institute
- Running Time:
- Short. 79 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - dolby digital stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Hong Kong
- Year:
- 1996
- Language:
- Englishm Mandarin, and Cantonese with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Cinema History, LGBT Interest
- Notes:
- Originally commissioned by the British Film Institute, this 1996 documentary by Stanley Kwan combines archival footage with interviews with filmmakers and actors such as Leslie Cheung, Ang Lee, Chen Kaige, and John Woo to explore representations of queerness and LGBT identity through the history of Chinese film.
+ Still Love You After All These
- Director:
- Kwan, Stanley
- Production Co:
- Taiwan Film Center
- Running Time:
- Short. 44 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - dolby digital stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Hong Kong
- Year:
- 1997
- Language:
- Mandarin, Cantonese and English with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Experimental / Avant Garde, Short, LGBT Interest
- Notes:
- Perhaps Stanley Kwan’s most experimental work, ‘Still Love You After All These’ is a personal-memoir film about Hong Kong identity made in 1997, the year of the handover of Hong Kong from Great Britain to China. It was produced by Peggy Chiao.
+ Rouge [Trailer]
- Production Co:
- Golden Harvest; Golden Way Films
- Running Time:
- Trailer. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Hong Kong
- Year:
- 1987
- Language:
- Cantonese with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Trailer
- Notes:
- Restored original theatrical trailer for ‘Rouge’.