Additional screenings for Film Archive's "Dancing Between Words and Images - Hong Kong Film and Literature" (with photos)

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The Hong Kong Film Archive (HKFA) of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department is organising the screening programme "Dancing Between Words and Images - Hong Kong Film and Literature", featuring 17 Hong Kong films adapted from or inspired by literary works. In response to the overwhelming feedback on the screening programme, the HKFA will introduce additional screenings of "Red Rose White Rose" (1994) at 7pm on December 15 (Sunday) and "The Mad Phoenix" (1997) at 7pm on January 5, 2025 (Sunday), at its Cinema, so that more audience members can revisit these two classics.

Adapted from a short story by Eileen Chang and directed by Stanley Kwan and scripted by Edward Lam, "Red Rose White Rose" delicately depicts the struggles between love and married life under patriarchal norms.

"The Mad Phoenix" is adapted from the critically acclaimed stage play of the same title by its playwright Raymond To. It tells the twists and turns of legendary Cantonese opera playwright Kong Yue-kau, and won To a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay.

Tickets for the additional screenings priced at $55 will be available at URBTIX (www.urbtix.hk) from November 22 (Friday). For telephone bookings, please call 3166 1288. For programme details, please visit the HKFA website (www.filmarchive.gov.hk/en/web/hkfa/2024/literature/pe-event-2024-literature.html) or call 2739 2139.

Ends/Thursday, November 21, 2024
Issued at HKT 15:00

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The Hong Kong Film Archive (HKFA) of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department is organising the screening programme "Dancing Between Words and Images - Hong Kong Film and Literature", featuring 17 Hong Kong films adapted from or inspired by literary works. In response to the overwhelming feedback on the screening programme, the HKFA will introduce additional screenings of "Red Rose White Rose" (1994) at 7pm on December 15 (Sunday) and "The Mad Phoenix" (1997) at 7pm on January 5, 2025 (Sunday), at its Cinema, so that more audience members can revisit these two classics. Photo shows a film still of "Red Rose White Rose" (1994). (Courtesy of First Distributors (HK) Limited)