AS PART of the 17th Hongkong International Film Festival, the Academy Award winning film Howards End will be premiered on April 13 at Columbia Classics and Asta Classics. A few remaining tickets are available for those who cannot wait to see the film when it is released commercially on April 15.
Works by other Academy Award winners can be seen at the festival. Cousin Bobby is by Jonathan Demme, who claimed last year's Best Picture Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs. ATV is running its International Film Week in anticipation of the Film Festival.
The films would do any film festival proud.
The week begins with an African film called Yaaba , tomorrow which is by award-winning writer/director Idrissa Oueadraogo, who will have a retrospective at the Arts Centre next month.
Next in the line-up are two films closer to home: The Empress Dowager and Full Moon in New York, starring Maggie Cheung and Sylvia Chang.
The week ends with The Grand Chemin and The Doors, Oliver Stone's production about demi-god Jim Morrison.