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Hou Hsiao-Hsien early works : Cute girl : The Green, green grass of home : The Boys from Fengkuei.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD/PAL 036 484 DVD 1-3 + booklet
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Chinese
- Dutch
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947- director.
- Hou, Xiaoxian.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Young men--Taiwan--Drama.
- Young men.
- Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947-.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Chinese.
- Taiwan.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Chinese.
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 3 videodiscs (321 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 pages : illustrations (chielfly color) ; 17.5 cm)
- Other Title:
- Cute girl
- Green, green grass of home
- Boys from Fengkuei
- Place of Publication:
- [Brussel, Belgium] Cinematek, 2016.
- Language Note:
- In Mandarin, Taiwanese with English, Dutch and French subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, PAL, all regions.
- digital optical stereo
- PAL
- video file DVD video region 0
- Summary:
- CINEMATEK released a DVD Box set with three films by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien. The box gathers three early films: the romantic comedies Jiu shi liu liu de ta [Cute Girl] (1980) and Zai na he pan qing cao qing [The Green, Green Grass of Home] (1982) which Hou made on demand, and Feng gui lai de ren [The Boys from Fengkuei] (1983), considered to be the turning point both cinematographically and aesthetically in his career. All three films have been restored by CINEMATEK under supervision of Hou Hsiao-hsien and in collaboration with the Film Foundation (World Cinema Project). Every film is accompanied by an audiovisual essay by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin. In the accompanying booklet Tom Paulus (University of Antwerp) comes back on the early days of Hou Hsiao-hsien's career.
- "Cute girl, 1980 (aka Lovable You) : Hou Hsiao-hsien made his near-invisible directorial debut with this commercially- minded, boy-meets-girl charmer starring Cantopop heartthrob Kenny Bee and Taiwanese pop sensation (and hat aficionado) Feng Fei-fei. A featherweight romantic comedy in the mold of Taiwan's then-popular cinema, it involves a fetching young bride-to-be (Feng) who falls for a laid-back land surveyor (Bee) while visiting her family in the countryside" -- http://thecinematheque.ca/also-like-life-the-films-of-hou-hsiao-hsien/cute-girl.
- "The Green, green grass of home, 1982 : Hou's final film in the Taiwanese romantic-comedy mode, is the most nuanced, fulfilling, and recognizably HHH-esque of these early commercial works. Again, the director brings along Hong Kong songster Kenny Bee as his lead, but swaps Feng Fei-fei for new ingénue Chiang Ling, who plays an elementary-school teacher in a will-they-won't-they relationship with Bee. Though Hou concedes to some of the genre's predictabilities, more often he's pursuing his own interests: the joyful spontaneity of improvised acting, the natural beauty of the Taiwanese countryside, and the growing socio-economic concerns of an industrialized nation"-- http://thecinematheque.ca/also-like-life-the-films-of-hou-hsiao-hsien/the-green-green-grass-of-home.
- "The Boys from Fengkuei, 1983 : Hou's fourth feature is considered his first mature masterwork and is one of the breakthrough works of the Taiwanese New Wave. The rights-of-passage tale has three bored, aimless young men leaving their downbeat provincial fishing village for a fling in the southern port city of Kaohsiung. There, they link up with an equally restless young woman determined to make her way to the even brighter lights of Taipei" -- http://thecinematheque.ca/also-like-life-the-films-of-hou-hsiao-hsien/the-boys-from-fengkuei.
- Contents:
- Cute girl (101 min)
- The Green green grass of home (103 min)
- The Boys from Fengkuei (117 min)
- Participant:
- Cute girl: Kenny Bee, Feng Fei-fei, Anthony Chan.
- The green, green grass of home: Kenny Bee, Chiang Ling, Chen Mei-feng.
- The boys from Fengkuei: Doze Niu (Cheng-tse), To Tsing-hua, Lin Hsiu-ling, Chang Shih, Yang Li-yin, Chang Shun-fang.
- Credits:
- Director, Hou Hsiao-hsien ; cinematography, Kun Ho Chen.
- OCLC:
- 944530840
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