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Screening: Flowers of Shanghai
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) presents "Flowers of Shanghai," a film on the complex relationships playing out in brothels in 1890 Shanghai.
When:
May 4, 2015 8:30pm to 12:00am
Where
Presented as part of the Jack H. Skirball Series, in collaboration with UCLA Film & Television Archive and the American Cinematheque
The breathtaking cinema of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, the leading figure of the Taiwanese new Wave, is the subject of a retrospective that spans more than three decades. As one of the participating venues, REDCAT shows a new 35mm print of Hou’s richly textured masterpiece Flowers of Shanghai (Haishanghua, 1998, 125 min.). An heir to the great modernist legacy—with its use of elegantly staged long takes, performances by many non-professional actors, and a radically elliptical mode of storytelling—Hou has created a body of work that has opened up exciting new horizons for the medium.
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