Year

Country

Home

People

Films

Articles

Store

1989

Canada

2/5 -

The National Film Board of Canada celebrates its 50^th anniversary. [MORE] [ADD]

Czechoslovakia

23/8 -

Former child actress Shirley Temple Black arrives in Prague as the United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. [MORE] [ADD]

Denmark

– A revision of the Danish Film Law increases finance available for film production and dispenses with artistic evaluation of productions applying for finance.  [MORE] [ADD]

– A copy-fund of DKr 1 million, administered by the FSI, is established to speed the circulation of commercially successful films to smaller cinemas. [MORE] [ADD]

Ecuador

– The CN begins a programme of recovering and preserving films. [MORE] [ADD]

Hong Kong

27/5 -

Media celebrities raise US$1million to support the student demonstrations in Beijing. [MORE] [ADD]

6/7 -

John Woo’s violent action thriller The Killer is released. [MORE] [ADD]

– Producer and actor John Sham is accused of helping student leaders to escape from China following the Tiananmen Massacre. [MORE] [ADD]

Hungary

8/2 -

At the Budapest National Film Week, director Miklos Jancso delivers a speech expressing solidarity with ‘those who wish to abandon once and for all the Stalinist heritage.’ [MORE] [ADD]

India

– Prem Nazir, the biggest star in Malyalam film history and veteran of more than 500 films, dies at the age of 62. [MORE] [ADD]

– Sooraj Barjatya’s I Fell in Love soars to the top of the box office charts – where it remains for several years.   Every few months the film is re-cut and re-edited then re-released. [MORE] [ADD]

Japan

10/1 -

Akira Kurosawa begins shooting his latest film, Dreams, an American-Japanese co-production.   American director Martin Scorsese has a small role. [MORE] [ADD]

South Korea

– Sheen Sang Okk and Choi Eun Hee return to South Korea.  The director and his actress wife were kidnapped in 1978 by Kim Jong Il, the movie buff son of the North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, in an attempt to use their talents to boost the status of North Korean filmmaking.  [MORE] [ADD] 

Macedonia

– The bi-annual publication Kinopis, featuring articles about film theory and history, is published for the first time. [MORE] [ADD]

– The Triangle film production company is formed.  [MORE] [ADD]

Myanmar

– The national film industry is privatised.  [MORE] [ADD]

Pakistan

– Saeed Rizvi’s Shaani, is Pakistan’s first science-fiction film, and also the first to use special effects. [MORE] [ADD]

South Africa

10/9 -

Oliver Schmitz and Thomas Mogotlane’s Mapantsula (Hustler) premieres at the Toronto Film Festival.   Mogotlane also stars as Panic, a petty criminal.  [MORE] [ADD]

Taiwan

– Hsiao-hsien Hou’s Beiqing chengshi (A City of Sadness), the first Taiwanese film captured in direct sound (to capture the various dialects of its characters) is released.  [MORE] [ADD]