N.Y. fest slates films from China 'black hole'

September 12, 2008 Next September's New York Film Festival, which coincides with the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, will feature a rare retrospective of films made between 1949 and the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966. Richard Pena, director of the NYFF and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, went to Beijing for a week in July to work with the China Film Archive to organize the first major U.S. screening of a collection of about 20 films made in the early years of China's state-run studio system. In an interview, Pena said that there is a lot of scholarship on Chinese films from the so-called Golden Era of the 1930s, a little less from the 1940s, and a lot on films made after the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976.

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