The screening schedule of the 27th Shanghai International Film Festival has attracted the attention of movie fans. Among them, the three screenings of "Hazard", "Neon Genesis Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo" and "Eraserhead + Lost Highway + Mulholland Drive" have become the focus with their extremely long duration, making many hardcore fans eager to try.
Three all-night screenings at this year's Shanghai Film Festival
Directed by French documentary master Claude Lanzmann, the 568-minute film is a masterpiece in the history of world documentaries. The film took 13 years to produce, exposing and exploring the Nazi Holocaust from multiple perspectives, and won the FIPRESCI Critics Award at the 1986 Berlin Film Festival. Lanzmann once commented on the effect of the film's opening screening at night: "It runs all night and ends early the next morning, giving the audience a feeling of walking out of hell."
The film will be screened at Shanghai Cinema SHO at 23:00 on June 21. It is a great challenge to the audience's "artistic stamina" and will also add profound significance to the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp and the 80th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War.
Poster of "The Disaster"
It is worth mentioning that this year's Shanghai International Film Festival will also screen a behind-the-scenes documentary about Shoah: I Have Nothing: Lanzmann's Shoah. This behind-the-scenes documentary reveals some of Lanzmann's special working methods, and for audiences who are seeing Shoah for the first time, it can provide additional explanations for some unclear parts of the feature film.
Poster of "Neon Genesis Evangelion: True Love for You"
The EVA series is an old friend of Shanghai movie fans. The difference is that this year this classic Japanese animation has a brand new opening method. The 464-minute "Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo" will be screened at Shanghai Grand Cinema at 23:50 on June 21.
As a theatrical version of a classic IP, it carries the feelings of many fans. The extremely long length allows the audience to immerse themselves in the grand narrative of the interweaving of mecha battles and discussions on human nature, and to recall the passionate and profound "EVA" memories on the big screen.
Mulholland Drive poster
The spectacle challenge that belongs to David Lynch is also very suitable for late night. Eraserhead + Lost Highway + Mulholland Drive is 372 minutes long and will be screened at Shanghai Cinema SHO at 23:00 on June 21. David Lynch's unique suspense style and fantasy images, through the form of continuous screening, can allow the audience to deeply immerse themselves in the mysterious, absurd and metaphorical film world he constructed, and explore the charm of the "Lynch-style" audio-visual language. Some fans joked that even if the theater fell asleep, it was considered to be in David Lynch's dream, so how could it not be considered an ultimate life experience.
In 2013, the Shanghai International Film Festival held an all-night screening, which was a cultural event that year. The unique "marathon" viewing experience not only satisfied the audience's demand for immersive viewing of classic films and long films, but also demonstrated the film festival's continuous attempts in film history inheritance and artistic exploration.
These long-running films are the Shanghai International Film Festival's practice of excavating classics and paying tribute to masters. While providing fans with a rare "marathon" viewing opportunity, they also demonstrate the festival's responsibility in film history inheritance and artistic exploration. On the 130th anniversary of the birth of film, what new "trick" can be seen in watching movies? Curators and fans have also shown a positive attitude towards experimentation.
As soon as the film schedule for this year was released, many fans were eager to watch. On social networks, some people posted all-night themed peripheral materials.
Fans posted their homemade "marathon" peripherals on social media platforms
Someone initiated a team invitation in the movie fan group, hoping to share the long dark night with like-minded friends, "asking for someone to wake them up when they snore" and "making an appointment to have breakfast after the movie."
There are also movie fans from other places who have expressed their admiration for the thoughtful scheduling of the Shanghai International Film Festival, saying, "We can even save on accommodation, 280 yuan for a night is such a good deal."
Another advantage of grabbing an all-night show is that you would have to grab four or five shows, but now just one is enough.
