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Tatsumi (III) (Japanese)
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The Amazing Spider-Man (IIA)
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The Avengers (IIB)
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Beloved (III) (French, English and Czech)
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Chicken With Plums (IIB) (French)
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Cold Fish (III) (Japanese) 
Sion Sono's horror film about a tropical fish shop owner who befriends and entrusts his daughter to a mysterious man.  CT
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Crime actioner that sees Batman resurfacing to protect a city that views him as an enemy after an arch criminal arrives on the scene and threatens to overwhelm Gotham's finest. Starring Christian Bale. CT 
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Hotaru: the Movie - It's Only A Little Light In My Life (I) (Japanese)
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Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (I) (English and Cantonese versions)
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Wuershan's period fantasy revolves around a scarred princess (Vicky Zhao Wei) who turns for help in winning the young general she loves (Chen Kun) to a fox demon (Zhou Xun) with supernatural powers.  CT 
Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (I) 
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Silenced (III) (Korean)
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InDPolar International Animation Festival
InD Blue presents a selection of eight programmes of animated short films from around the world, including the following five programmes. Until Aug 8. Broadway Cinematheque, Prosperous Garden, 3 Public Square St, Yau Ma Tei, HK$65 www.cinema.com.hk. Inquiries: 2572 7202
Lovely Touching Little Stories
Programme of 13 animated shorts including: Makiko Sukikara's Walkin' On Snow Grass, about a dormouse who wakes up from hibernation to see the snow for the first time (no dialogue); and Dace Riduze's Pig's Happiness, about a family of city pigs that holiday in the countryside (no dialogue). Aug 2, 8pm, Broadway Cinematheque.
Closing Programme 2: The King Of Pigs + The Hell
Yeong Sang-ho's double bill of films consisting of: an animated drama about a bankrupt businessman-murderer and a struggling writer who look back on their childhoods for answers, only to realise that they have more questions than before they started thinking about their early days; and a two-part short film about a salaryman who is told by the Angel of Death that the guards of hell will come out to grab him at midnight and a 20-something-year-old woman who is told that she is about to die and is greatly upset about it. In Korean with English subtitles. Aug 3, 9.45pm, Broadway Cinematheque.
Closing Programme 1: Twilight Zone - Indefinite Edition
Programme of five short films including: Atsushi Wada's The Great Rabbit, a dreamlike film about worshippers of a profound and mysterious 'great rabbit' that comments on the confusion of the modern world (no dialogue); and David O'Reilly's The External World, about a boy who learns to play the piano (in English and Japanese with English subtitles). Aug 6, 9.45pm, Broadway Cinematheque. 
Opening Programme 1: Love's Great Adventure
Programme of five animated shorts including: Albert'T Hooft and Paco Vink's Paul and the Dragon, a film based on the true life story of Paul Sanders, about a nine-year-old boy diagnosed with cancer whose doctor tells him that the cancer is like a dragon in his body that needs to be fought (no dialogue); and Jakob Schuh and Max Lang's The Gruffalo, based on Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's illustrated book about a mouse taking a stroll through the woods who encounters three predators who all want to eat him (in English). Aug 7, 9.45pm, Broadway Cinematheque.
Opening Programme 2: It's A Wonderful World
Programme of 12 animated shorts from the mainland, Turkey, South Korea, the Netherlands, Britain, Japan, Russia and the US including: Lilian Fu's Fishing with Popo, about a girl who, while attending her grandmother's funeral, recalls the deceased's vivid storytelling and a curious dream involving her grandmother in the afterlife (in Cantonese with English subtitles); and William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg's The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr Morris Lessmore, that tells the story of people who devote their lives to books and books that return the favour (no dialogue). Aug 8, 9.45pm, Broadway Cinematheque.
Actress, Singer, Opera Star: Leung So-kam
The HK Film Archive presents a Morning Matinee programme of five films featuring the versatile entertainer, including the following two films. Aug 3-31. HK Film Archive, 50 Lei King Rd, Sai Wan Ho, HK$20 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2739 2139
Top Singers Two
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A Poor Girl
Chiang Wai-kwong's adaptation of Chin Lei-kui's Cantonese opera about a pair of adulterers who scheme to silence a concubine's son who discovers their relationship and frame the crime on the concubine and her brother. In Cantonese. Aug 10, 11am, HK Film Archive.
International Children's Film Carnival 2012
The Leisure and Cultural Services Department presents a selection of 16 feature films and short film programmes for the young and young at heart, including the following nine films and programmes. Until Aug 19. HK Film Archive, 50 Lei King Rd, Sai Wan Ho; HK Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST; HK Science Museum, 2 Science Museum Rd, TST East; and HK Space Museum, 10 Salisbury Rd, TST. HK$55 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2734 2900
The Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin directs and stars in this 1925 comedy about a tramp who goes to Alaska in search of gold. With English narration and Chinese and English subtitles. Aug 3, 7.30pm, HK Science Museum, Aug 18, 5pm, HK Film Archive. 
City Lights
Charlie Chaplin directs and stars in this 1931 romantic comedy-drama as a tramp who meets a blind flower-selling girl, then tries to earn money to pay for surgery that could restore her sight, and saves a rich man who is about to commit suicide. Also starring Virginia Cherrill. Silent with music and English intertitles. Aug 4, 2.30pm, HK Film Archive.
First Position
Bess Kargman's documentary that follows six ballet dancers from different backgrounds as they prepare for the Youth America Grand Prix. In English, Spanish, French and Hebrew with Chinese and English subtitles. Aug 4, 5pm, HK Film Archive.
The Crocodiles Strike Back
The 2010 sequel to 2009 drama, The Crocodiles, is a drama revolving around a boys' gang known as the Crocodiles who seek to find out if a series of freak accidents are part of a conspiracy to force the closure of a factory. In German with Chinese and English subtitles. Aug 4, 7.30pm, HK Space Museum, Aug 18, 2.30pm, HK Film Archive. 
World Animation and Shorts 1
Programme of nine short animation films from Slovenia, Hong Kong, Belgium, France, Britain and Estonia including: Jessica Poon's Origin, a mother-and-son story told through two water droplets and the water cycle (in English with Chinese and English subtitles). With an interactive session in Cantonese. Aug 5, 2.30pm, HK Space Museum, Aug 11, 2.30pm, HK Film Archive.
World Animation and Shorts 2
Programme of six short films from Belgium, Hong Kong, the mainland, Germany and Israel including: Vincent Bruno's Cristiano's Shirt, about two boys who seek to get the same shirt as their idol, soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo (in French with Chinese and English subtitles). With an interactive session in Cantonese. Aug 5, 5pm, HK Space Museum, Aug 11, 5pm, HK Film Archive.
The Azemichi Road
Drama centring on a hearing-impaired girl whose life is changed after she joins a dance team that enters a competition. In Japanese with Chinese and English subtitles. Aug 5, 7.30pm, HK Space Museum.
Chubby Drums
Drama-comedy about a fat boy whose father opens a new restaurant in Thinhaven, where no one is outgoing or fat. The boy later falls for a girl who happens to be the town's prettiest and is skinny. In Dutch with English subtitles and live Cantonese interpretation. Aug 8, 7.30pm, HK Science Museum, Aug 19, 5pm, HK Film Archive.
Mai Mai Miracle
Sunao Katabuchi's drama about a young girl inspired by her grandfather's stories that embarks on wild flights of fancy about the history of the town she lives in. Dubbed into Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles. Aug 10, 7.30pm, HK Science Museum.
Moon Beam - Dating with Documentary
Visual Record presents a showcase of eight Chinese-language documentary films, including the following two. Until Sept 1. Film Culture Centre, Flat A3, 11/F Tung Nam Factory Building, 40 Ma Tau Kok Rd, To Kwa Wan, free. Inquiries: 2540 7859 
Though I Am Gone
Hu Jie's documentary in which Wang Qingyao, the widower of Bian Zhongyun (who was vice-principal of the Experimental High School attached to Beijing Normal University), recalls the horror of the Cultural Revolution, specifically his wife getting tortured to death by her students during the 'Red August' of 1966. In Putonghua with Chinese and English subtitles. Aug 4, 2.30pm, Film Culture Centre.
Farewell, Beijing
Documentary about Gong Fenghai, a fervent supporter of Mao Zedong, who returns to Beijing 40 years after the 'Down to the Countryside Movement' to find himself a stranger in his own hometown. Zhang Tianhui directs. In Putonghua with Chinese and English subtitles. Aug 4, 4.15pm, Film Culture Centre.
100 Must-See Hong Kong Movies
The HK Film Archive presents a programme of 100 Hong Kong films made between 1916 and 1999, including the following two films. Until 2014. Broadway Cinematheque, Prosperous Garden, 3 Public Square St, Yau Ma Tei, HK$55 www.cinema.com.hk; and HK Film Archive, 50 Lei King Rd, Sai Wan Ho, HK$30 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2734 2900 
Blood in Snow
Li Lihua and Grace Chang (aka Ge Lan) stars in Li Han-hsiang's musical drama about a group of performers and their gloomy lives, animated by a troubling love rectangle. In Putonghua with Chinese and English subtitles. Aug 4, 7pm, HK Film Archive, Aug 12, 2pm, Broadway Cinematheque.
The Kids Are All Right
Annette Bening and Julianne Moore star in Lisa Cholodenko's drama about the challenges faced by a lesbian couple and their two children - who were conceived by artificial insemination - when one of the children finds their biological father. In English with Chinese subtitles. Aug 5, 11.50am, Broadway Cinematheque, Prosperous Garden, 3 Public Square St, Yau Ma Tei, HK$60 www.cinema.com.hk. Inquiries: 2388 0002
Restored Treasures
The Leisure and Cultural Services Department presents a continuing series of movies that have undergone restoration work, including the following two films. HK Film Archive, 50 Lei King Rd, Sai Wan Ho, HK$40 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2734 2901 
The Love Parade
Set in the fictional European country of Sylvania, Ernst Lubitsch's 1929 musical romantic comedy centres on a courtier who finds his new life unsatisfying and without purpose after he marries his country's queen. Starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. In English. Aug 5, 2pm, HK Film Archive.
My Kingdom for a Husband
Comedy inspired by and bearing the Chinese title of Ernst Lubitsch's The Love Parade about about a vagabond singer and the queen who falls for him. In Cantonese. Aug 5, 5pm, HK Film Archive.
Confession of a Concubine 
Set in the Ming dynasty, this 1976 erotic period film revolves around the top draw at the Ching Hua House of pleasure and a handsome young scholar on his way to sit for the imperial examinations who become attracted to each other. In Putonghua with Chinese subtitles. Aug 5, 3.40pm, UA iSquare, 7/F iSquare, 63 Nathan Rd, TST, HK$70 Cityline. Inquiries: 2314 4228 
Father and Son: Two Visionaries of Cinematic Dreams - A Tribute to Set Designers Chan Ki-yui and Chan King-sam
The HK Film Archive presents a programme of 45 films featuring the work of the father-and-son pair of designers, including the following film. Aug 10-Nov 18. HK Film Archive, 50 Lei King Rd, Sai Wan Ho, HK$40 Urbtix. Inquiries: 2739 2139
The Empress Dowager
The first of Li Han-hsiang's two-part historical epic about Empress Dowager Cixi, who ruled behind the scenes and practically brought the Qing dynasty to its end. Starring Lisa Lu Yan. Aug 10, 7.30pm, Oct 21, 2pm, HK Film Archive.



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