Film Series: Countries and Cities in East Asian Film

February 13–April 10 & April 11, 2001

Film Series: Countries and Cities in East Asian Film
Roone Arledge Cinema, Lerner Hall, Columbia University (115th St. & Broadway)
7:00 PM

These eight films move through many “countries” and “cities” throughout East Asia. They share, not a Chinese, or a Korean, or a Japanese, but an East Asian identity inherited but also fragile, subject to both recall and breakdown. Some probe specific zones of dislocation and disaster in the twentieth century. Others register deliberate flight, the embrace of new possibilities. All contribute to our sense of the great range and power of East Asian cinema in our time. They invite us to enter cities and countries that are distant but hardly strange. And from these places, rooted in East Asian traditions and modernities, emerge stories of loss and of love strong enough to cross borders, between nations, or between East and west.

Series runs Tuesday evenings from February 13 through April 10, 2001

Note: there will be no film screened on March 13

East Asian Film Symposium
April 11, 2001
• All screenings begin at 7:00PM
• Films are free and open to the public
• Seating is limited

• All films are in their original languages with English subtitiles

All films will be shown at the Roone Arledge Cinema, Lerner Hall, Columbia University
(115th St. and Broadway)

Subway: 1/9 to 116th St – Columbia University
Program subject to change
call 212-854-6916 for details

This program is sponsored by the following Columbia institutions:
the Richard W. Weatherhead Fund of the East Asian Institute, Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Film Division of the School of the Arts, and the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Center for Chinese Cultural and Institutional History

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Schedule of Films
February 13 (Tue) 7:00 PM	Maboroshi (Maboroshi no hikari) Dir: Kore-eda Hirokazu (Japan, 1995)
February 20 (Tue) 7:00 PM	City of Sadness (Beiqing Chengshi) Dir: Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Taiwan, 1989)
February 27 (Tue) 7:00 PM	The Power of Kangwon Province (Kangweondoeui Him) Dir: Hong Sang-Soo (Korea, 1998)
March 6 (Tue) 7:00 PM	Fallen Angels (Duoluo tinashi) Dir: Wong Kar-wai (Hong Kong, 1995)
March 20 (Tue) 7:00 PM	Muddy River (Doro no kawa) Dir: Oguri Kohei (Japan, 1981)
March 27 (Tue) 7:00 PM	Sopyonje Dir: Im Kwon-taek (Korea, 1993)
April 3 (Tue) 7:00 PM	After Life (Wandafuru raifu) Dir: Kore-eda Hirokazu (Japan, 1998)
Dust in the Wind (Lien Lien Fung Chen ) Dir: Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Taiwan, 1987) Panel Discussion including featured directors Hou Hsiao-Hsien (City of Sadness and Dust in the Wind) and Kore-eda Hirokazu (Maboroshi and After Life) to be held immediately following the screening of Dust in the Wind
April 11 (Wed) 2:00 PM 3:30 PM	East Asian Film Symposium Panel One: New Asian Cinema: Cross-Cultural Influences Panel Two: New Asian Cinema: U.S. Critical Response