Film Movement Classics has announced that they will be releasing director Stanley Kwan’s landmark biopic Center Stage on Blu-Ray and DVD on June 8, 2021. Film Movement Classics brings the 1991 classic to Blu-ray in North America for the first time digitally restored in 4K, loaded with exclusive extras, including an all-new interview with director Stanley Kwan.
Synopsis: Maggie Cheung embodies tragic silent screen siren Ruan Lingyu, known as the “Greta Garbo of China,” in this unconventional biopic by Hong Kong New Wave master Stanley Kwan. Praised for her moving and emotive onscreen presence, Ruan’s private life, which was frequent fodder for the vicious Shanghai tabloids, began to mirror the melodramas which brought her fame, culminating in her suicide at age 24. Kwan and Cheung paint a kaleidoscopic yet intimate portrait of the ill-fated actress, deftly blending lush period drama, archival footage, and metatextual documentary sequences of Cheung reflecting on Ruan’s lasting legacy.
- New introduction by Stanley Kwan
- Interview with Stanley Kwan
- Interview with Hong Kong cinema expert Paul Fonoroff (Blu-ray only)
- 16-page booklet with a new essay by Aliza Ma, Head of Programming at Metrograph
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