Tomorrow's 7pm screening of THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM will feature a special introduction from Annette Insdorf, Film Professor at Columbia University and author of Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has! Get tickets and explore the lineup at /nyaff2021 Now playing nationwide during in our Virtual Cinema through August 15. The documentary is a must-see not only for Hui devotees but for lovers of film everywhere. The chain-smoking, wisecracking, incessantly working, eternally enthusiastic filmmaker candidly discusses her tumultuous 40-year career recalls her discovery, at the age of 16, that her mother was Japanese and confesses to her ongoing love affair with books (“if film is my spouse, then literature is my mistress”). But the vibrant, unfiltered Hui herself is our guide, captured while making OUR TIME WILL COME (2017) at the age of 70, while at home with her elderly mother, and in the public eye.
KEEP ROLLING is an amiable, intimate portrait of legendary filmmaker Ann Hui.ĭirector Man Lim Chung, a frequent Hui collaborator, expertly deploys a wealth of archival images and interviews with friends, family, and a who’s who of film-industry stalwarts.
