Thank god it’s not the Chow Yun-fat CONFUCIUS. This Saturday, February 27 @ 5pm and 7pm the China Institute will screen Fei Mu’s lost 1940 classic film, CONFUCIUS. The 7pm screening will also feature a talk by Weihong Bao, assistant professor of Chinese Film and Media Culture at Columbia University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
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The China Institute is located at 125 East 65th Street.
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Fei Mu’s CONFUCIUS is a gorgeous, black-and-white film about the legendary philosopher that was produced to raise morale during the Sino-Japanese war in 1940. It was revived in 1948 and then thought lost. But in 2001 a copy of the negative was donated to the Hong Kong Film Archive who then meticulously restored the film and released it again in 2009. This screening will be from a digital source. Tickets are $20 for non-members.
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