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The New Mutants is a 2020 American horror film in the superhero genre, based on the Marvel Comics team of the same name and distributed by 20th Century Studios. It is the thirteenth and final installment in the X-Men film series.
The film was directed by Josh Boone and stars Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, and Henry Zaga. In the film, a group of young mutants held in a secret facility fight to save themselves. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: around 2001-2013, inspired by precise recent events in contemporary China, its vignettes take place in vastly different settings from bustling southern metropolis of Guangzhou and Dongguan to the more rural townships in the province of Shanxi.
directed by Zhangke Jia
“The film draws on the history of wuxia stories. The title in Chinese, 天注定 (Tian zhuding) is literally translated as “heavenly fate” or “fated doom,” while its English title is a reference to King Hu‘s 1971 action epic A Touch of Zen, one of the most influential wuxia films.
It revolves around four threads set in vastly different geographical and social milieus across modern-day China.
The stories are loosely based on:
timespace coordinates: 2001 till about 2017 in the city of Datong bordering with Inner Mongolia, an old mining city that now has become poor since the price of coal dropped and then in the province of Hubei in central China where the city of Wuhan lies.
directed by Jia Zhangke
“He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the “Sixth Generation” movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai, Lou Ye, Wang Quan’an and Zhang Yuan.”(wiki)
“It was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. The story is loosely based on the leader of a gang from Jia Zhangke’s childhood, whom he had admired as a role model.”(wiki)
“A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.”(imdb)
timespace coordinates: somewhere in the present or near future in the city of Kaili in the southeastern province of Guizhou, People’s Republic of China.
Bi Gan was born in Kaili City in Guizhou Province in June 1989. He is an ethnic Miao.
“The film chronicles the return of Luo Hongwu (Huang Jue) to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years before. Back for his father’s funeral, Luo recalls the death of an old friend, Wildcat, and searches for lost love Wan Qiwen (Tang Wei), who continues to haunt him.
Director Bi Gan enlisted novelist Chang Ta-Chun as a consultant for the script, noting that Ta-Chun aided in the overall film structure as well as the division of the film into two parts. Of the two parts, Bi noted that “the title of the first part is Memory; that of the second is Poppy, in reference to Paul Celan’s poem Poppy and Memory. At some point, I even considered using this as the film’s title.”[7]
Bi stated that “I liked the idea that the first half would be in 2D, because I wanted it to feel as fragmented as time, with little bits of memory… With the second half, I wanted it to be real-time, and the 3D was the best way to create a spatial experience for that.” The 59-minute unbroken long take 3D sequence that closes the film took two months to prepare, as techniques had to be devised to move a RED camera through the complicated environment of the scene. It took seven attempts at shooting the sequence before Bi was satisfied.[8] The sequence was shot in 2D and converted to 3D in post-production because a 2D camera was lighter and therefore easier to move in difficult positions and small environments.
Bi drew inspiration for the film from the paintings of Marc Chagall, specifically The Promenade, as well as the novels of Patrick Modiano.”
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“Many critics praised the final, hour- long dream sequence which was filmed in one continuous take. In his 4/4 star review for The Boston Globe, critic Ty Burr compared the sequence to his own dreams, noting that they are often “unsettling, unstoppable, and yet there’s often a logic within their illogic. This is precisely what Bi has re-created in the final hour of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” a fluid and outrageously extended camera shot that, as with dreams, doesn’t need editing to cast its spell.”(wiki)
timespace coordinates: around 2010s in the environs of lakes around Wuhan city, Hubei province.
directed by Diao Yinan. It was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2019 edition of Cannes Film Festival.
“Zhou Zenong, is the leader of a gang of criminals specialized in the theft of motorcycles, and has recently been released from prison. During an argument with a rival gang, Zhou accidentally shoots and kills a policeman, mistaking him for his enemy.
Hunted by the law and rivals, the man finds himself on the run.
The rest of the story revolves around Zhou and Liu Aiai, a prostitute (“bathing beauty”), whose pimp is a well-known associate of Zhou. It will be Liu, as not directly known to the police and therefore not suspicious, who will have to get in touch with Zhou about a bounty issue on him.”
timespace coordinates: November 9 2019 Palm Springs, California
Palm Springs is a 2020 American romantic comedy film directed by Max Barbakow. It stars Andy Samberg & Cristin Milioti, and follows two strangers who meet at a Palm Springs wedding only to get stuck in a time loop. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: alternate 2008 London
Possessor, known in the United States as Possessor: Uncut, is a 2020 science fiction horror film written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg. An international co-production of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, the film stars Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. (wiki)
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