Фильм о Го Сейгене?

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"The National Film Theatre tells me that the new Go Seigen film may appear at the London Film Festival. The schedule is due out on 14 October."

Кто-нибудь в курсе, что это за фильм?



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21 June 2006 Go Seigen film due soon According to the Chinese movie site MonkeyPeaches, director Tian Zhuangzhuang has received funding to complete his long-awaited film Wu Qingyuan. The project was in post production stage but had run out of money. Now Tian hopes that the film will appear at the Venice Film Festival. The subject of the film is the legendary Go player better known in this country as Go Seigen. Tian Zhuangzhuang is a well-known Chinese film director whose previous work includes The Blue Kite and The Horse Thief. The cast includes Taiwan's Chang Chen (previously in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) as Wu and Sylvia Chang (who featured in Eat Drink Man Woman). You can see more information about the film

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Отправка отредактированного (08/09/06 09:27)

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[GO MASTER PIC TIX AVAILABLE]: Special early alert for AGA members: tickets for the new Go Seigen pic (Go Seigen Pic To Screen In NYC 8/28 EJ) go on sale tomorrow online at www.filmlinc.com "The Go Master" screens Sat Sept 30 at 3P and Sun Oct 1 at 6P as part of the the New York Film Festival. Please note that this is a brand-new film (different from the 1982 The Go Masters), directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang.



Александр Динерштейн,
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[www.filmlinc.com]

THE GO MASTER
Series: The 44th New York Film Festival [Sept 29 - Oct 2006]
Director: Tian Zhuangzhuang , Release: 2006, Runtime: 104

Few filmmakers today make movies as visually elegant and spiritually refined as Tian Zhuangzhuang (Springtime in a Small Town NYFF ‘02). This time the renegade Fifth Generation Chinese director has surpassed himself with an exquisite feature based on the life of Wu Qingyuan, the most renowned modern master of “go”. A Chinese prodigy who became the undisputed master of this Japanese board game, Wu is torn by the increasingly bellicose relations between the two countries.

Remaining in Japan despite the outbreak of war, and later sucked into a religious cult which tries to exploit his celebrity, Wu (beautifully played by Chang Chen) is the still center of the storm, following his own inner notions of integrity and loyalty to the discipline of his chosen vocation. This perceptive portrait of a man who maintains his own spiritual counsel is as moving as the cinematography and the lighting are ravishing.

Country: China/Japan

Screening at Alice Tully Hall, north side of 65th Street west of Broadway.



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Первые отзывы:

The Go Master
By Roy Laird & Chris Garlock

Popular culture references to go are few and far between, so last weekend's New York Film festival screening of an entire feature film about the legendary Go Seigen was much anticipated in the U.S. go community. After all, the game's appearance in Ron Howard's 2001 film A Beautiful Mind sparked one of the biggest-ever surges of interest in go (and won Best Picture).
Unfortunately, director Tian Zhuangzhuang has turned in a boring and confusing biopic that even the most dedicated go player will be hard-pressed to sit through, much less recommend to non-playing friends.
This turgid film manages to transform the fascinating life of the 20th century's greatest player into a one-dimensional portrait slapped carelessly onto celluloid. In 104 very long minutes we learn virtually nothing about either the game of go or Go Seigen himself. After a promising beginning in which we glimpse the still-active octogenarian himself, we plunge into 1930's Japan where the young Go Seigen is about to take on Shusai, the last hereditary Honinbo (whose historic game against Kitani five years later became the basis for Kawabata's classic novel The Master of Go). But the film seems to lose interest in this titanic struggle -- between old and new, age and youth, Japan and China -- and spins off in ever more confusing subplots.
The racism and exclusion from tournaments that Go faced in the 1930's, his deep rivalry and even deeper friendship with Kitani, the co-creator of the "Shin Fuseki" that revolutionized modern go, Go's struggle to regain the top after a devastating accident at the peak of his career, are all simply hinted at amid disconnected fragments of his classic jubango matches and sketchy jumbles of other vignettes. Even film basics break down: at one point, several minutes after we see Go felled by a motorcycle on a Tokyo street, a superimposed title helpfully informs us that "in 1961, Go was involved in an accident . . ." While director Tian Zhuangzhuang is shooting in Japanese, which he does not speak, and recently came off a 9-year break during which he was barred from film-making for years by the Chinese authorities, this hardly explains the failures of his latest effort.
The film's strongest theme revolves around Go's "retirement" from play to pursue involvement in Jiu, a religious sect where, according to the film, he fell under the spell of the sect's leader and self-styled "living goddess." In reality, Go - always a deeply spiritual person - did belong to this sect, but his "retirement" lasted just over a year, from March 1945 to August 1946, a period when not much professional go was being played anywhere in Japan. It's interesting to note that the negative portrayal of religious involvement as cult-like takes place within the ongoing controversy over the Chinese government's actions toward the Falun Gong movement.
Go Seigen's life had more than his share of triumph and tragedy. The tragedy of The Go Master is that a fascinating life has been sold terribly short. Other than a handful of exquisite shots of Go playing, the film is virtually unwatchable. Only the film's last shot finally gets it right - Go is playing a ceremonial retirement game, and his opponent begins by playing on the central, or tengen point, a nice homage to the man who revolutionized a 4,000 year-old game. Hopefully, we won't have to wait 23 years to see another film about go but in the meantime your best bet is to find a copy of the 1983 "The Go Masters," and settle in with your popcorn and soda for a truly remarkable film.



Александр Динерштейн,
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