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Screening: The Puppetmaster (Xi meng ren sheng)
The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University presents a screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien's film "The Puppetmaster".
When:
December 7, 2014 2:00pm to 4:25pm
Where
This screening is part of the Also like Life: the Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien International retrospective (link is external) organized by Richard I. Suchenski (Director, Center for Moving Image Arts at Bard College) in collaboration with the Taipei Cultural Center, the Taiwan Film Institute, and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of China (Taiwan). The book Hou Hsiao-hsien (Vienna: Österreichisches Filmmuseum and New York: Columbia University Press, 2014) has been released in conjunction with this retrospective.
Languages: Mandarin, Taiwanese, and Japanese; with English subtitles
Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. With Li Tien-lu, Lim Giong, Vicky Wei
(Taiwan/France 1993, 35mm, color, 142 min.)
Cost:
Seating for films is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Auditorium doors will open approximately 30 minutes before each show.
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