| Friday, September 26, 1997 | "C'est La Vie, Mon Cheri" |
| 7:15 p.m.
Place: Fine Arts 102 | This melodrama (Best Picture, Hong Kong Film Awards)concerns a love affair between a 20-year-old daughter of Cantonese Opera performers and a down-on-his-luck jazz musician. While trying to establish a singing career, Min helps pull Kit out of his despondent state before tragedy sets in. Great songs, wonderful star performances and an emotionally shattering ending. Cantonese with English subtitles. Hong Kong, 1993. Derek Yee Tung-Sing. 90 mins. Admission is free. |
| Friday, October 10 | "Ghost in the Shell" |
| 7:15 p.m.
Fine Arts 102 | Made with Britain's Manga Entertainment, this film is perhaps the first Japanese animated movie created with an international audience in mind. This long-awaited cyber-tech thriller pits Major Kusanagi, a member of Japan's elite secret polic force, against the Puppet Master, an international criminal who has hacked into a translator working for an important diplomat. Japanese with English subtitles. Japan/UK, 1995. Mamoru Oshii. 82 mins. Admission is free. |
| Friday, October 24 | "The Day the Sun Turned Cold" |
| 7:15 p.m.
Fine Arts 102 | A young welder in Northern China transforms the lives of those closest to him when he goes into a police station to accuse someone of having murdered his long-dead father. At first the police are skeptical, but as they listen they become intrigued and reopen the investigation concerning the dead man. This film's beguiling flashback-laden narrative magically captures the harsh reality of the Northern provinces of China. Mandarin with English subtitles. China, 1994. Yim Ho. 99 mins. Admission is free. |
| Friday, November 7, 1997 | "My Love, My Bride" |
| 7:15 p.m.
Fine Arts 102 | This trend-setting, hilarious sex comedy from South Korea, told in eight discrete sections, concerns the romatic ups and downs of an aspiring writer and his down-to-earth wife. The situations may be familiar, but the film's sharp insights are presented with great charm and formal innovation (animated inserts, direct-to-camera speeches and fantasy scenarios). Korean with English subtitles. South Korea, 1990. Lee Myung-Se. 108 mins. Admission is free. |
| Friday, November 21, 1997 | "Traffic Jam" |
| 7:15 p.m.
Fine Arts 102 | A young Tokyo couple are at the center of this dark, comic satire. They take their children to visit the husband's faraway parents, but the long trip proves to be filled with disastrous incidents. Their journey becomes the metaphor for the gap between young Japanese people and their ancestral roots. Japanese with English subtitles. Japan, 1991. Mitsuo Kurotsuchi. 108 mins. Admission is free. |
| Friday, December 5 | "Ermo" |
| 7:15 p.m.
Fine Arts 102 | In this comedy about men and what women want, a noodle-maker in a remote Chinese province feels that she is being taken for granted by family and friends. To impress them, she decides to bring home the biggest, most expensive TV she can find - no matter how many noodles she has to peddle to buy it. Chinese with English subtitles. China, 1995. Zhou Xiaowen. 95 mins. Admission is free. |