TAIPEI STORY / IN OUR TIME

$8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission)

Aero Theatre | ‘Edward Yang: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’

TAIPEI STORY was restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project at the Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique and Hou Hsiao-hsien.

Checking Event Status...

ABOUT THE FILMS:

TAIPEI STORY, 1985, Dir. Edward Yang, 110 Min, Janus Films, Taiwan

In Hokkien and Mandarin with English subtitles.

Edward Yang’s second feature is a mournful anatomy of a city caught between the past and the present. Made in collaboration with Yang’s fellow New Taiwan Cinema master Hou Hsiao-hsien, who cowrote the screenplay and helped finance the project, TAIPEI STORY chronicles the growing estrangement between a washed-up baseball player (Hou, in a rare on-screen performance) working in his family’s textile business and his girlfriend (pop star Tsai Chin), who clings to the upward mobility of her career in property development. As the couple’s dreams of marriage and emigration begin to unravel, Yang’s gaze illuminates the precariousness of domestic life and the desperation of Taiwan’s globalized modernity.

FORMAT: DCP

IN OUR TIME, 1982, Dir. Edward Yang, 111 Min, Janus Films, Taiwan

In Mandarin with English subtitles.

Four vignettes, each set in different decades from the 1950s through the 1980s, deal with protagonists at different stages of life between childhood and young adulthood.

FORMAT: DCP