Saturday, December 5 | 5:30 p.m.
Also like Life: the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien
An International retrospective organized by Richard I. Suchenski (Director, Center for Moving Image Arts at Bard College), in collaboration with the 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.
Concluding master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien’s coming-of-age trilogy, Dust in the Wind centers on a pair of high school sweethearts, Wan (Wang Chien-wen) and Huen (Hsin Shu-feng), who leave their depressed mining village in search of greater opportunity in Taipei. There, they spend day after day in menial jobs, their nights in school, and what little free time they have left drinking with friends—who are one by one called up for military service. As naturalistic in its performance styles and portrayal of late 1960s Taiwan as it is meticulous in its shot compositions, Dust in the Wind was named one of the ten best films of the 1980s by esteemed Village Voice critic J. Hoberman.
Director Hou Hsiao-hsien 1986 Taiwan 110 minutes NR 35mm
