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Classic film:  A scene from Dawn Must Come (1950).

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Enduring favourite:  A scene from Griffen Yueh Feng's Blood Will Tell (1949).

Classic melodramas to screen in August

July 28, 2014

The Hong Kong Film Archive series 100 Must-See Hong Kong Movies will present six classic melodramas in August.

 

To complement the forthcoming Hong Kong Film Archive’s retrospective, The Writer/Director in Focus II: Griffin Yueh Feng, the series will include his Blood Will Tell (1949), starring screen goddess Bai Guang.

 

The other five films to be shown are director Wang Weiyi's Dawn Must Come (1950), Li Pingqian's Awful Truth (1950), Lee Sun-fung's Blood-stained Azaleas (1951), Zhu Shilin and Bai Chen's Should They Marry? (1951), and Zhu's Festival Moon (1953).

 

The six films will be shown in early August the Hong Kong Film Archive. Post-screening talks will be conducted in Cantonese with guests Lau Yam, Jack Ng, May Ng, Eric Tsang, Shu Kei, David Chan and Timmy Chen.

 

The six films will also be shown from August to October at Broadway Cinematheque. Awful Truth  will also be screened on September 28, and Festival Moon on November 9, at Cine-Art House.

 

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