Terracotta Festival Line-up Announced
Apr 2010
TERRACOTTA - Get Your Far East FixHEADLINES
* Terracotta Festival 2010 Line Up announced
* Terracotta 1st MeetUp group event: MEMORIES OF MATSUKO
* Terracotta Presents...A CHINESE GHOST STORY
* SCI-FI LONDON offer
* 24City...at last!
* News from Asia
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Terracotta Festival 6th - 9th May
In Cinemas
Mixture of films to suit all tastes this month...[1]City of War: John Rabe (2nd April)
Story set in Second World War China with a German businessman saving Chinese
people from the invading Japanese army - earning him the accolade of China's
Schindler.
Kak
[2]Sky Crawlers
Mamoru Oshiis' manga adaption about the dogfighting planes and pilots - expect
beautiful animation from the director of GHOST IN THE SHELL
[3]24 City
Finally! Cineastes will have been waiting since 2008 Cannes Film Festival to see
Jia Zhangke's 24 CITY, detailing life in modern China through the shutting of a
factory to make way for new apartment blocks.
News of the line-up for Terracotta Festival 2010 (6th - 9th May) was announced
exclusively through [4]Twitchfilm.netToday, we launch our website! See the full-line up:
[5]
http://www.TerracottaFestival.com15 hand-picked films, carefully selected by us at Terracotta, having spent
twelve months sifting through many high quality films and travelling to and from
Asia to see them, to arrive at our selection (we've done the hard work so all
you have to do is buy a ticket and turn up to watch them!).
From large scale action epics to arthouse dramas and this year we introduce
documentaries to the festival line-up with a double-bill focus on the Far East
documentaries of Yves Montmayeur (IN THE MOOD FOR DOYLE and YAKUZA EIGA) and the
ten years of production disaster and triumph of our Closing Film BODYGUARDS AND
ASSASSINS are captured in Hiroshi Fukazawas' documentary DEVELOPMENT HELL.
Join us on the 6th May for our Opening Film LITTLE BIG SOLDIER, Jackie Chans'
latest film (reportedly his 99th!) which has a strong-anti war message; in
recognition of the message of this film, his efforts in charitable activity, and
his work as UNICEF Goodwill Amabassador, Terracotta will be honouring these
achievements with a special award to Jackie Chan (more news to follow).
April MeetUp - [6]www.MeetUp.com/AsianMovies
The first ever Asian Movies social meet up for Londoners. A new venture jointly
from the new leading labels of Far East cinema, Third Window Films and
Terracotta, where once a month, you can drink, chat, meet other film fans, meet
the people behind the labels, plus we put on a film screening - just what we all
need to get our fix.
This month we will show the hyperkinetic, technicolour black comedy- musical
that is MEMORIES OF MATSUKO.
Tuesday 6th April
6.30pm
April Asian Movies Meetup + MEMORIES OF MATSUKO screening
Peter Parkers Rock n Roll Club, Denmark street - see url above for full details
Free Entry
Aprils TERRACOTTA PRESENTS....A Chinese Ghost StoryEvery month we at Terracotta get to play host and pick a film to invite
Cinephilia members to come and watch. This month, is the entertaining A CHINESE
GHOST STORY starring the late great Leslie Cheung and the beautiful Joey Wang.
Leslie Cheung plays a scholar who stays at an inn only to find that it is a
portal to the netherworld; Joey Wang plays his ghostly love interest who is
supposed to lure him to certain death. Full of fantasy and action and in a
similar vein to 'Mr. Vampire' style movies.
Great chance to rewatch this classic on the large screen, or to come and
discover new areas of World Cinema you didn't know about! April 13th 7pm FREE
ENTRY FOR CINEPHILIA MEMBERS; £5 on the door for non-members for more info and
Cinephilia's [7]website
Hurry, only 300 left!! BREATHLESS 2-disc Collector Edition packed with Special
Features on DVD
Our 2-disc Collector Edition (only 2,000 made) has been heavily discounted from
its £15.99 recommended retail price to only £9.99 on these sites [8]Amazon,
[9]Play or [10]HMV.com It's rare to find a truly collectable DVD these days
and coupled with the low-pricing, it means that we only have about 300 copies
left in stock, so make sure you get a copy whilst you still can! As a
testament to the strength of the film, it's still being booked for cinemas - for
those of you in Northampton or Henley-on-Thames, you can catch it in the cinemas
at the Forum and Regal Picturehouse respectively on the 7th April.
Out and About
Battle Royale
If you've seen this film...need we say more? If you haven't then this is a
[11]totally unmissable film
Electric Sheep present this plus a talk with Helen McCarthy, the first
English-language author to write about Manga, at the [12]Prince Charles Cinema
on 14th April.
SCI-FI LONDON
Back again for another year, our friends at [13]SCI-FI LONDON are offering
Terracotta newsletter readers 10% off their tickets - just quote TERRACOTTA
NEWSLETTER at the Apollo box office (or show any of your Terracotta Festival
tickets you've purchased in advance) to receive your discount. Check out the 48
hour challenge!
Peppermint Candy
A chance for UK readers to see Lee Chang-dongs [14]PEPPERMINT CANDY thanks to
it's release on DVD via Third Window Films. The film opens with a distraught and
weathered man on the rails of a train track staring oncoming death in the face
and then we are told his story in reverse chronological order.
Treeless Mountain
Another great independent Korean film will be released on DVD this month:
[15]TREELESS MOUNTAIN from director So Yong-kim (IN BETWEEN DAYS). A mother is
forced to leave her two young daugthers at their aunts as she searches for their
father, and she leaves them a small piggy bank and a promise to return when the
piggy bank is full. Variety describes this film as "life affirming".
HongKong Cinemagic Forum -> English Board -> General
Terracotta Festival Line-up Announced, 6 -9 May 2010, London
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