Liang Shan Ba yu Zhu Ying Tai
China,
1963, 126 min
Shown in 1963
CREDITS
- dir
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Li Han-hsiang
- prod
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Run Run Shaw
- scr
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Li Han-hsiang
- cam
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Ho Lan-shan
- cast
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Betty Loh Tih, Ivy Ling Po, Jen Chieh, Li Kun
- prod co
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Shaw Brothers
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COMMENTS
By China, they meant Taiwan.
OTHER
Run Run Shaw, the producer and movie mogul of the Orient, has been represented in three of the past San Francisco Film Festivals. This year in his fourth appearance, he has captured the quiet beauty of The Love Eterne, a lyrical love ballad of ancient China. China in the fourth century provided the ingredients for The Love Eterne. Love was sacred. Parental rule was law and not to be disobeyed. Rainbows and butterflies swept across the meadows. The gods were compassionate and partial to young girls tragically in love. Devotion was eternal. Thus, down through the centuries, the poets sang to "The Love Eterne." The pastoral Chinese countryside gives the film a deepness of color that is breathtakingly beautiful. The vivid beauty of The Love Eterne moved the judges of the Tenth Asian Film Festival to award it prizes for Best Art Direction and Color Photography. It also won the Best Music and Best Sound Recording awards at the Asian Festival.
FACTOID #177
In 2000 animator Faith Hubley was the recipient of the Persistence of Vision Award. One year later, her daughter Emily appeared at the Festival with her bandmates, Yo La Tengo, to perform a score accompanying the silent underwater films of Jean Painlevé.
