Film
Directed By Wayne Wang
When Wayne Wang talks about his work, he tends to use schizophrenia as a metaphor for his own feelings about being an outsider wherever he goes, and also for his interest in the state of being an outsider. He was born in Hong Kong, named for John Wayne, and after high school he was educated in the United States, which has been his home ever since. Consequently, when he films in places like San Francisco’s Chinatown, he sees himself as both inside and outside the society of the neighborhood, simulataneously connected and alien – as he does when he returns to his original hometown of Hong Kong. So both the point of view, and the situation of the viewer, in Wang’s films are often unexpected and unsettled.
Wang is one of the most provocative filmmakers working anywhere in the world. While he has made popular “crossover” movies like “The Joy Luck Club,” our celebration of his work will focus on his more ambiguous, less settled and more challenging work, films that look deeply into questions of culture, character and the workings of the cinema itself.
Films in Program...
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USA
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1997
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99 min.
Director:
Wayne Wang
Saturday, February 16 - 5:00pm
IN-PERSON: Screenwriter Larry Gross and Director Wayne Wang
Wayne Wang says of the film, which looks at the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to The Peoples Republic of China: “I put on the disguise of Jeremy Irons to look at the colony's transition with a ne...
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USA
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1995
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112 min.
Director:
Wayne Wang
Monday, February 18 - 7:00pm
Due to illness Director Wayne Wang will no longer be In-Person with this film
This is the one ostensibly non-Chinese picture in our Wayne Wang program, but it comes out of Wang’s wanderings around Brooklyn with writer Paul Auster, and his sense of how strange – ...
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