Subscribe
Eng
中文

King Kong

  • Dir: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack

  • USA, 1933, English, 100mins, DCP

  • Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot

It has been the site of romantic rendezvous, alien destruction and even an Andy Warhol experimental film, but the most iconic image of New York City’s Empire State Building in pop culture remains King Kong climbing up its top mast in this landmark 1933 blockbuster. Directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s innovative use of stop-motion, matte painting and rear projection techniques (decades before digital technology, no less) to bring the ‘eighth wonder of the world’ to life is a testament to film as an art of ingenuity, though having a filmmaker who is driven to get his money shot at any cost as a protagonist is also an intriguing commentary on the obsession of spectacle-making in filmmaking.

18/8 (Sun): Film talk with Bryan Chang

    Screening:

    In-theatre Screening

    • Presented by

    • Financially Supported by

    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.