Thank you to all the members who voted in our 2023 Film Society Selects poll! The winning film is Edward Yang’s exquisitely crafted family drama Yi Yi, recipient of the Best Director prize at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
It was chosen from a set of ten films released between 2000 and 2019 that ranked in the top 100 in the 2022 Sight and Sound global film critics’ poll of the greatest films of all time. Other candidates included: Get Out (2017), The Gleaners and I (2000), In the Mood for Love (2000), Moonlight (2016), Mulholland Drive (2001), Parasite (2019), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), Spirited Away (2001), and Tropical Malady (2004).
About the Event:
5:30 pm: Reception with complimentary beer, wine, and hors d’oeuvres
6:30 pm: 35mm Film Screening and Discussion in the Noble Theater
This event is free and exclusive to OKCMOA Film Society Members. Pre-registration is required.
About Yi Yi:
“The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-age father NJ’s tentative flirtations with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yang’s attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera, the filmmaker deftly imbues every gorgeous frame with a compassionate clarity. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.” -Janus Films
Print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive.
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In addition to OKCMOA membership benefits, Film Society members enjoy invitations to quarterly Film Society events, two free film ticket vouchers, and an extra discount on all OKCMOA film screenings.
OKCMOA Film Society membership is available as an option +$40 enhancement to Individual and Dual membership. Film Society is automatically included as a benefit of Fellow, Friend, and Sustainer membership.
