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Fri 11 October, 8.15pm: Taipei Story

Fri 11 October, 8.15pm: Taipei Story

Edward Yang’s second feature is a mournful anatomy of a city caught between the past and the present. Taipei Story chronicles the growing estrangement between a washed-up baseball player (Hou Hsiao-hsien) 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.
Sat 12 October, 5.30pm: The Hourglass Sanatorium

Sat 12 October, 5.30pm: The Hourglass Sanatorium

An anxious man visits his ailing – perhaps deceased – father in a mysterious sanatorium that becomes a kind of dream-machine, where time and space possess a strange plasticity, and ghosts of the past and future join in a hypnotic dance. One of the great masterpieces of 70s art cinema and the crowning expression of Has' visionary cinema.
Sat 12 October, 8pm: Yi Yi

Sat 12 October, 8pm: Yi Yi

Edward Yang's extraordinary Yi Yi follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.
Sun 13 October, 3.30pm: A Brighter Summer Day

Sun 13 October, 3.30pm: A Brighter Summer Day

Among the most praised and sought-after titles in all contemporary film, A Brighter Summer Day is based on the true story of a crime that rocked Taiwan in the 1960s. A film of both sprawling scope and tender intimacy, this novelistic, patiently observed epic centres on the gradual, inexorable fall of a young teenager from innocence to juvenile delinquency.
Sun 13 October, 8pm: Decasia: The State of Decay

Sun 13 October, 8pm: Decasia: The State of Decay

This inspiring, haunting tapestry of long lost, partially erased images testifies not only to the fragile nature of film but to the transience of all human endeavour. Set to an eerie symphonic score by Michael Gordon, Decasia reminds us, as Morrison himself puts it, of the many dreams we forget upon waking.

Calendar

Fri 11 Oct 8:15pm
Taipei Story
Sat 12 Oct 5:30pm
The Hourglass Sanatorium
Sat 12 Oct 8:00pm
Yi Yi
Sun 13 Oct 3:30pm
A Brighter Summer Day
Sun 13 Oct 8:00pm
Decasia
Thu 17 Oct 8:15pm
L'argent
Sat 19 Oct 5:30pm
The Hourglass Sanatorium