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After screening Past Lives for nearly 80 weeks, The Projector welcomes director Celine Song to an exclusive post-show Q&A!
By InCinemas / 18 Feb 2025 (Tuesday)
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After an almost 80-week run, Past Lives is taking its final bow at The Projector, with a virtual appearance from its visionary director, Celine Song.
The Academy Award-nominated masterpiece has become one of the longest-running films in The Projector’s history and to mark this milestone, the independent cinema has teamed up with distributor A24 to bring fans an exclusive virtual post-show dialogue with the director Celine Song herself. Happening on 7 March (Friday) at 7.45pm, audiences can experience Past Lives on the big screen one last time, nearly 18 months from the film’s initial Singapore release.
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The Projector’s unique approach to theatrical film runs has seen them screening films for far longer than their peers over the years. Past Lives has been screening at the local filmhouse for 78 weeks, but when The Projector first opened its doors, it screened banned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s Taxi Tehran for 87 weeks from 2015 to 2017. Also in The Projector’s hall of fame are crowd favourites like Call Me By Your Name, which it screened for 34 weeks, and Parasite, which enjoyed a 39 week run.
Unlike most commercial cinemas, The Projector doesn’t have definite end dates for its theatrical runs – most of its films continue to play on its screens as long as there is demand for it. Says its founder Karen Tan:
We’re film people, we love films! At The Projector, we want to make sure awesome quality movies get a good, solid run. We think it’s really important that people get to catch the films they love on the big screen, which is vastly different to a streaming experience at home!
Past Lives has garnered 82 wins and 233 nominations, including nods for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 96th Academy Awards. The tender and deeply moving story follows childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung, whose lives take separate paths after Nora emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they reunite for one fateful week, confronting the weight of their past and the possibilities of what could have been.
For Past Lives details, tickets, and more information visit theprojector.sg/PastLives