MCLC: Edward Yang retrospective

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: Edward Yang retrospective
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A RATIONAL MIND: THE FILMS OF EDWARD YANG
<http://www.filmlinc.com/films/all-series>

Films & Showtimes »
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ang#film-schedule>
November 22-27

³Life is a mixture of happy and sad things. Movies are so lifelike<that¹s
why we love them.²
³Then who needs movies? Just stay home and live life.²
³My uncle says we live three times as long since man invented movies.²
³How can that be?²
³It means movies give us twice what we get from daily life.²
<Dialogue from Edward Yang¹s Yi Yi

Born in Shanghai in 1947, Edward Yang was still a toddler when his family,
like some two million other Chinese citizens, emigrated from mainland
China to Taiwan after the end of the Chinese Civil War. Not surprisingly,
one of the richest themes in his films (as in those of his friend and
contemporary Hou Hsiao-Hsien) would become the search for
identity<personal, social and political<in the small island nation. But
Yang¹s work was equally concerned with such universal subjects as the
longing for missed opportunities and the age-old conflicts between parents
and children, his deeply rational mind (he came to filmmaking after
studying computer science and applied physics) always striving to impose
order on the irrational world of human experience. His untimely death in
2007 robbed world cinema of one of its greatest talents at the peak of his
career. All the more tragically, only one of Yang¹s features, the
acclaimed Yi Yi, had managed to receive commercial distribution in the
United States, where the director lived for much of his adult life. We are
pleased to present this complete retrospective, including Yang¹s
masterpiece, A Brighter Summer Day.

Don't miss the U.S. theatrical premiere of A Brighter Summer Day, November
25 ­ December 1, in the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Info/Tickets >>
<http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/a-brighter-summer-day>

Presented with the generous support of the Taipei Economic and Cultural
Office in New York

IN THIS SERIES 

A Confucian Confusion
Edward Yang, 1994

With rapier wit, Yang observes the self-asorption of a gaggle of
twenty-something urbanites in this panoramic satire of life in the
material world of 1990s Taipei.
Read more... <http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/a-confucian-confusion>

In Our Time 
Edward Yang, Jim Tao, Ke Yizheng, Zhang Yi, 1981|

Yang¹s plangent study of a teenage girl¹s sexual awakening,
³Expectations,² is one entry in this omnibus film that helped inaugurate
the New Taiwan Cinema.
Read more... <http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/in-our-time1>

Mahjong 
Edward Yang, 1996|

In this latter-day screwball farce set around a trendy night spot, Yang
orchestrates the elaborate comings and goings of  everyone from mob
enforcers to a lovelorn Frenchwoman.
Read more... <http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/mahjong>

Taipei Story 
Edward Yang, 1985

A once-promising baseball prospect (played by Hou Hsiao-hsien!) moves in
with his property developer girlfriend, in Yang¹s most penetraying study
of a changing Taiwan.
Read more... <http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/taipei-story>

That Day, on the Beach
Edward Yang, 1982

Due to an ongoing legal matter, That Day, on the Beach will be screened in
a 16mm print. Admission for these screenings will be FREE. If you have
already purchased a ticket, please see the box office for a refund.

Yang¹s Antonioni-esque first feature (shot by Chris Doyle) is a visually
and emotionally arresting melodrama about two old friends who meet after
13 years apart.
Read more... <http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/that-day-on-the-beach>

The Terrorizers
Edward Yang, 1986

Edward Yang's widow, Kaili Peng, will introduce the November 22 screening,
which will be followed by a reception open to all ticketholders.

Yang¹s most narratively intricate and formally audacious film begins with
an early-morning police shootout and pulls in the enigmatic characters of
a blocked novelist and her lab-technician husband.

Screening with:

The Wind
Edward Yang, 2007

A tantalizing assembly of complete scenes from one of Yang¹s unrealized
projects, an ambitious animated martial-arts movie.
Read more... <http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/the-terrorizers>

The Winter of 1905 
Yu Wei-cheng, 1982

Legendary Hong Kong action director Tsui Hark as the great Chinese artist
and Buddhist monk Li Shutong, a.k.a. Master Hong Yi, in a sensitively
written story by Yang.
Read more... <http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/the-winter-of-1905>

Yi Yi 
Edward Yang, 2000

A middle-aged businessman and his family cope with crises in this
irresistible, nuanced work of extraordinary synchronicity, empathy and
narrative control.
Read more... <http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/yi-yi>