Asian restored classics (ARC) is a film festival program organised to revive the best of Asian films by the Asian Film Archive. The motive of this festival is to restore and celebrate the golden classic Asian masterpieces made by legendary filmmakers.
This year, ACR presents twelve extraordinary historic Asian films with a special focus on South-east Asia, with films from Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar and Philippines. In addition, the festival has also listed Ring of Fury (1973), Singapore's first martial arts film which was banned for 32 years, among the twelve Asian films.
The film festival started on Aug.31 and continues till Sept.10. The film festival is held at two venues in Singapore, the first one being Capitol Theatre and the second one is National Museum of Singapore, Gallery Theatre.
The details regarding the venue, time and date of the films are as follows:
Venue: Capitol Theatre
31 Aug 2017, 8pm:
TAIPEI STORY (1985, Taiwan) by Edward Yang
1 Sep 2017, 8pm:
THE SURROGATE WOMAN (1987, South Korea) by Im Kwon-taek
2 Sep 2017, 4pm (Double Bill):
SENNINBARI (The Thousand-Stitch Belt, 1937, Japan) by Genjiro Saegusa & CARMEN COMES HOME (1951, Japan) by Keisuke Kinoshita
2 Sep 2017, 8pm:
FIST OF FURY (1972, Hong Kong) by Lo Wei
3 Sep 2017, 2pm:
PYAASA (The Thirsty One, 1957, India) by Guru Dutt
3 Sep 2017, 5:30pm:
THE NIGHTS OF ZAYANDEH-ROOD (1990, Iran) by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Venue: National Museum of Singapore, Gallery Theatre
8 Sep 2017, 8pm:
RING OF FURY (1973, Singapore) by Tony Yeow and James Sebastian
9 Sep 2017, 4pm:
SANTI-VINA (1954, Thailand) by Thavi Na Bangchang
9 Sept 2017, 7:30pm:
TIGA DARA (Three Maidens, 1956, Indonesia) by Usmar Ismail
10 Sep 2017, 3pm:
MYA GA NAING (The Emerald Jungle, 1934, Myanmar) by Maung Tin Muang
10 Sep 2017, 5:30pm:
GENGHIS KHAN (1950, Philippines) by Manuel Conde
The prices of the festival tickets are S$13 for general public and S$11 discounted for student, senior citizen (age above 55 years) and National Service Full-timers (NSF)
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