Film Screening:

Goodbye, Dragon Inn
(Tsai Ming-liang, 2013, 82 min, Taiwan, in Mandarin with English subtitles, Color, 35mm)

--Introduced by Shambhavi Kaul, Arts of the Moving Image

In a cavernous movie palace, King Hu's classic 1968 film Dragon Inn plays for a sparse crowd. As the movie progresses, the ticket-taker makes dinner, cleans the bathroom, and checks in on the projectionist. Audience members wander in and out, occasionally interacting in the restroom or the vast hallways that surround the theater proper. Minimally plotted, Tsai Ming-Liang's film is a poetic, dryly humorous portrait of a place and its denizens, and an homage to a director who influenced his career. Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune writes, "A weird, funny, melancholy tribute to movies and movie-going, an opus for film geeks."

--Winner of Best Feature at the 2003 Chicago International Film Festival

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Sponsors: The Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), and the Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES).