It has been quiet for a couple of days at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, or for me at least, as real world commitments came between me and spending the day in a darkened room (not least having to entertain Twitch overlord Todd Brown as he whistled through town), but now we are back up and running. Here's what I have been checking out!Days 6 & 7 (27-28 March)The Living Corpse (dir. Fedor Ocep, Germany/Soviet Union)The first film screening in the festival's restored classics section was this incredibly engaging 1929 silent film from Fedor Ocep, with live musical accompaniment from German pianist Eunice Martins. The film, based on a novel by Leo Tolstoy, centres on Fyodor (Vsevolod Pudovkin), a cuckolded man who attempts to...
- 3/31/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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