SAT JAN 27, 2024 7:00 PM MAHJONG $10.00 (member); $15.00 (general admission) Egyptian Theatre | ‘Edward Yang: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’ West Coast Premiere of 4K Restoration! The new 4K restoration was undertaken by the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute with the support of Kaili Peng and Kailidoscope Pictures. Checking Event Status... *This is an RSVP which means first come first served. This RSVP does not guarantee a seat. Not a Member? Join Today. Already a Member? Be sure you are logged in to your account. Your RSVP is being held for 1 minute, please select the quantity and fill out your contact info to complete the RSVP First Name Last Name Email Quantity Subscribe to our newsletter FINISH
ABOUT THE FILM: In English and Mandarin with English subtitles. A screwball farce about the manipulation and lies baked into modern prosperity, Mahjong centers on a trendy nightspot in Taipei, where Yang orchestrates the elaborate comings and goings of a raft of disparate characters, including a couple of mob enforcers (one played by YI YI’s Wu Nien-Jen, co-writer of THAT DAY, ON THE BEACH and TAIPEI STORY), an American escort service madam, and a young Frenchwoman (Virginie Ledoyen) looking for the British entrepreneur who wooed her in London. Yang’s penultimate feature is as much a wry critique of the many dark crime-comedies of its decade as it is a jaundiced love letter to late ’90s Taipei—a city where languages, classes, and ideologies collide at a dizzying rate, and the pursuit of happiness is a brutal zero-sum game. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films COUNTRY: Taiwan