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SUMMARY:Taiwan Cinema Spotlight Films in San Diego
DESCRIPTION:Rediscover LGBT classics at the Taiwan Cinema Spotlight\, June 25-26! This partnership between Pacific Arts Movement\, the Taiwan Academy\, and the Museum of Photographic Arts is an annual program at MOPA that focuses on a different aspect of Taiwanese cinema each year\, which could be a genre\, director\, era\, or theme. \nThis year’s series highlights the pivotal role that LGBT themes have played in the development of recent Taiwanese cinema\, and the number of memorable films\, as diverse in their approaches to film as they are in their takes on love and society. \nTICKET INFORMATION\n• $15 weekend pass (admission to all films)\n• $10 general\n• $8 MOPA & Pacific Arts Movement members\n(Pacific Arts Movement members may also redeem vouchers for these screenings) \nSCREENING INFORMATION\nSaturday\, June 25\, 2016:\n4 p.m. (free screening with RSVP)\nBLUE GATE CROSSING\nYee Chin-yen\, 2002\, 85 mins. \nThe truism that being in love is the ultimate solitude is told by director Yee Chin-yen with the sweet regret of a waning afternoon. High schooler Kerou pines for her best female friend Yuezhen\, who she’s so smitten by that she can’t refuse participating in any of Yuezhen’s crazy plans\, which unfortunately includes trying to woo a boy. Teenage love triangles are rarely as tender and warm with the longing passions of youth as in Blue Gate Crossing\, the romantic comedy that made local Taiwanese films hip again\, and put LGBT themes right at the center of the industry’s mainstream renaissance. \n7 p.m.\nTHE RIVER\nTsai Ming-liang\, 1997\, 111 mins. \nTsai Ming-liang’s most despairing film – and perhaps his greatest – features one of cinema’s most broken families. So broken in fact that father\, mother\, and son have retreated into their own numbed silence where energies are rejuvenated only in base bodily functions and the extended durations of waiting\, captured peerlessly through Tsai’s signature long takes. Tsai finds light though\, not in the comfort of drama or genre\, but in the absurdity of a film set and by peering through the shadows of a gay sauna. Pleasure binds these isolated bodies to the rest of the world\, but whether it can heal a family remains Tsai’s most provocative question\, to which he responds with one of the most wrenching final sequences in all of contemporary cinema. \n————- \nSunday\, June 26\, 2016: \n4 p.m. (free screening with RSVP)\nBOYS FOR BEAUTY\nMickey Chen\, 1999\, 60 mins. \nMickey Chen is one of the great documentary-activists of Taiwanese cinema\, and Boys for Beauty is his breakthrough\, a lively and humorous chronicle of gay youth that was a critical and commercial hit. Three teens enchant with snide commentary about their lives as social outsiders during a decade that saw Taiwan undergo major political and cultural shifts. A cross-dressing performer wows\, boys announce their break-ups with aplomb\, friend groups fissure as they tend to do in high school\, and most movingly\, families testify about gay sons in ways that defy simple moralization. \n7pm\nDRIFTING FLOWERS\nZero Chou\, 2008\, 97 mins. \nFloating across years and lifetimes\, this triptych of women finding love seeps its stories in an other-worldly sense of shivering beauty as hypnotically fleeting as the flowers of its title. A blind chanteuse falls for a charismatic butch accordionist. An older woman and her gay “husband” bond over their illnesses. Past and present\, young and old\, thread together with a graceful yearning and the old-school pulse of Taiwanese pop songs. Zero Chou\, Taiwan’s first out lesbian filmmaker\, has long been one of Taiwan’s premier directors\, and with Drifting Flowers\, delivers her most elegiac\, elegant film of all. \n————————–————————–— \nAll screenings are held at the MOPA (1649 El Prado\, San Diego\, CA 92101). \n
URL:https://www.taiwaneseamerican.org/event/taiwan-cinema-spotlight-films-in-san-diego/
LOCATION:Museum of Photographic Arts\, 1649 El Prado\, San Diego\, CA\, 92101\, United States
CATEGORIES:West Coast
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