Film Movement: New 4K Restoration of Center Stage Detailed for Blu-ray

Film Movement has officially announced that it will release on Blu-ray Stanley Kwan's film Center Stage (1991), starring Maggie Cheung, Han Chin, Tony Ka-Fai Leung, Carina Lau, and Waise Lee. The release will be available for purchase on June 8.

Label description: 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.

Film Movement Classics brings the digitally restored 1991 classic to Blu-ray in North America for the first time, loaded with exclusive extras, including an all-new interview with director Stanley Kwan.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
• NEW introduction by Stanley Kwan
• Interview with Stanley Kwan
• Interview with Hong Kong cinema expert Paul Fonoroff
• 16-page booklet with a new essay by Aliza Ma, Head of Programming at Metrograph