Vintage Shanghai Comedy: “Da Li, Xiao Li & Lao Li 大李，小李和老李“

By Tina Kanagaratnam | February 11th, 2022 | Chinese Movies, Classic Movies, Da Li, Xiao Li, and Lao Li, Films, Post-49, Shanghai Art Deco, Shanghai artists, Shanghai Directors, Xie Jin | 0 Comment

There are so many reasons to love this 1962 screwball comedy, our Historic Shanghai Film Club selection for February – let us count the ways: Scenes of 1960s Shanghai. You think images of 1930s Shanghai are rare? Try 1962, the year the Great Leap Forward ended. This is a rare film documentation of the period, ...