Fu Hongxing

Fu Hongxing

Director, China Film Archive
China
Voted in the critics poll

Voted for:

Adventures of Prince Achmed, The 1926 Lotte Reiniger
Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky
Avventura, L' 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni
Farewell My Concubine 1993 Chen Kaige
Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith
Once Upon a Time in America 1983 Sergio Leone
Rashomon 1950 Akira Kurosawa
Spring in a Small Town 1948 Fei Mu
Tale of the Wind, A Joris Ivens/Marceline Loridan Ivens
Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman

Comments

Spring in a Small Town is absolutely the best Chinese film ever – the most successful drama film that embodies the Eastern philosophy and Chinese sentimentalism. Farewell, My Concubine is a miniature of China’s history from the 1930s to the 1970s. This film has become the key to understand Chinese society.