Crows and Sparrows

With Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun, Yunzhu Shangguan. The film was the winner of the 1957 Huabiao Film Awards for the “Outstanding Film” category, and starred Zhao Dan, Sun Daolin, Wu Yin and Shangguan Yunzhu in leading roles. He did everything the Party wanted him to do. A The house is tenanted by three families: Mr. Kong, a proofreader in a newspaper agency, whose son joined the However, things don't go as they expected. 85-87Wang, Yiman. Crows and Sparrows 乌鸦与麻雀 (1949) Wednesday, January 30, 2019 Start at 6:00 PM Members: FREE(Become a Member Now! Candidate in Chinese Film History at Harvard University. The director used low angle shots to portray the Crows living upstairs as powerful dominators looming over the commoners, whilst also using high angle shots to convey the weakness and powerlessness of the Sparrows over their KMT overlords. Our People’s Liberation Army has completely wiped out the enemy in the Huaihai region. ); Non-Members: $5 Location: 40 Rector Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10006 We are proud to launch The Film Society at China Institute, a series of programs for Sinophiles and Cinephiles to join us in exploring the […] The program maintains strong ties to Boston and Beijing and has a particular interest in supporting artistic dialogue between these two places through regular curation and visiting filmmaker programs. A story of a corrupt party official who attempts to sell an apartment building he has appropriated from the original owner and the struggles of the tenants to prevent themselves being thrown onto the street. Mr. Hua was arrested by KMT agents since he signed a protest letter over the school administration permitting for police to unjustly arrest its employees. At a Shanghai shikumen house, Mr. Hou, a former Hanjian and now an opportunist KMT official, is planning to sell the house which he seized from the owner Kong Yuwen, and then about to fly to Taiwan. He died in prison in 1969 at the age of 58 The screenwriter Chen Baichen tried to reveal problems by filming the actual events happened in Shanghai. Mr. and Mrs. Xiao find their scheme of making rich go to nought after gold price rises sharply due to the government’s manipulation. Zheng Junli, Complicity and the Cultural History of Socialist China, 1949–1976. The leaders of the company were all supporters and members of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Popular Cinema (Dazhong Dianying 大众电影), the leading film fan magazine, ran a nicely illustrated and friendly report that contained no hint of problems.

The employer is unwilling to provide Mr. Kong with accommodation.

Chen Baichen combined the event with his script, and filmed the scene of little Broadcast purchasing gold bars.Wang, Yiman. The two-storey house epitomises and literalises the social hierarchy of the crows and the sparrow, Hou and his mistress lord it over the tenants and live upstairs, where Kong used to live as the original owner. Directed by Junli Zheng. But eventually, the Crows were overthrown, and the apartment eventually returned to the hands of the Sparrows; the common folk of China. Kuomintang government officials start to persecute the people more severely to keep their the original luxurious life. In October 1948, inflation became more intense in Shanghai, and citizens had to purchase gold from the KMT government. Crows and Sparrows (Zheng, 1949) Zheng Junli’s Crows and Sparrows has a special place in my heart; it was the first “classic” Chinese movie I ever saw (on VHS tape via the old International Film Circuit label) way back in the 1990s. Winner of the New Currents Award at the 2016 Busan International Film Festival and based on the short story by Shi Shuqing (who also co-wrote the screenplay), KNIFE IN THE CLEAR WATER is a stark and breathtaking portrayal … In the winter of 1948, the Kuomintang of China is losing in the Huai Hai Campaign with Communist Party of China during the Civil War. In Shanghai, screenings are presented at OCAT Shanghai. Visit our On April 6, 2018, Crows & Sparrows is pleased to co-present a free screening of Wang Xuebo’s directorial debut KNIFE IN THE CLEAR WATER at the Brattle Theatre.. (2008). His mistress, Yu Xiaoying or so-called Mrs. Hou, About / Mission Crows & Sparrows is an international working group, screening series, and platform for artistic exchange between media artists working in North America and East / Southeast Asia. [Intertitle: Winter, 1948.

At this time, in Nanjing and in Shanghai, lackeys of the thuggish Chiang Kai-shek clique, in their death throes, intensify their oppression of the people, even as they make preparations to scatter like chickens and flee like running dogs…] This marks the first presentation of Klahr’s work in mainland China with the filmmaker in person.Many thanks to our partners and host venues for making these screenings possible!See you at the festival! Learn more about all of the participating films at The 15th Annual Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFBoston) is taking place A multi-layered coming-of-age tale that follows two teenagers of China’s wealthy elite as they settle into a boarding school in blue-collar rural Maine. By the time that Crows and Sparrows began shooting in 1948, it was apparent that the Communists were winning the war of Liberation, and the film reflects its makers’ confidence and political optimism throughout. Although Zheng Junli's 'leftist' films received support from the Communist Party, he would later be persecuted by the Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution. From beginning to end, director Zheng Junli loved the Communist Party and never questioned the legitimacy of his tormentors.

Crows and Sparrows: Allegory on a Historical Threshold.Pickowicz, P. (2006).

The film underlines the co-implicating relationship between the oppressors and the oppressed by visualizing their simultaneous distance and proximity with respect to the usage of “Initial reviews of the film, which appeared in mid-April 1951, were encouraging. Winner of the New Currents Award at the 2016 Busan International Film Festival and based on the short story by Shi Shuqing (who also co-wrote the screenplay), KNIFE IN THE CLEAR WATER is a stark and breathtaking portrayal of a rural Hui Muslim community in China’s Ningxia Province. (2008). The film takes place in Shanghai, and it revolves around a group of tenants struggling to prevent themselves from being thrown out onto the street due to a corrupt party official’s attempts to sell their apartment building.